Cattle
Bovine mastitis treatment marks 'significant progress'
Animal health scientists are making significant progress on mastitis management, which is responsible for up to 85% of the antimicrobials used in the dairy
- Feeding essential oils to ruminants: research, analysis
- Feeding seaweed may reduce cattle emissions
- Is there a benefit in feeding pasteurized milk to calves?
- Sensor value and viability for dairy cows
- What defines a good farm advisor?
- How to pick the right calf starter feed
- Remote weighing and data recording in calves
- Sick or not? The green light will tell
Cattle
Fibrolytic enzymes could boost dairy cow efficiency
Dairy cows fed barley silage may see a boost to milk production efficiency when fibrolytic enzymes are added to feeds, say researchers.
Flaxseed oil use may boost milk yield for cold-stressed dairy cows
Flaxseed oil use in organic dairy cows diets improved performance, feed efficiency and milk yield in cold conditions and highly digestible dietary starch
Cattle disease traceability project moving forward
Kansas project aims to help guide discussion, development of national program.
Learn about beef BLUP basics
Producers use breeding values to determine the long-term value of certain animals to their herds.
Low feed costs expected to boost Brazil’s cattle, swine production
Feed costs and export demand are two of the elements predicted to boost animal protein production in Brazil in 2019.
Essential oil, enzyme blend may provide ionophore replacement for dairy cows
Supplementing feed with an essential oil, enzyme blend supports ruminal fatty acids and milk production efficiency and may provide an alternative to antibiotic
New research claims health benefits of grass-fed milk
A new research project into grass-fed dairy has suggested that organic milk has 62% more omega-3 than non-organic milk and 17% more conjugated linoleic acid
Designing diets for enviro-friendly ruminants
Amount of methane produced depends upon efficiency of fermentation and efficiency of feed conversion.
Fiber-degrading enzymes increase dairy cow milk production
Literature review examines experiments where dairy cows benefitted from various enzyme combinations, doses
Lallemand offers tips to avoid fall slump in dairy cow production
Change from old corn silage to freshly cut forage can create problems
The high cost of metabolic diseases in dairy cattle
Management practices, such as nutrition, cow comfort and hygiene, are crucial to addressing metabolic issues
Prepartum DCAD nutrition leads to enhanced transition cow success
Transition cow health, early lactation milk yield and producer profitability improved through diet