Cattle
Can garlic oil reduce calf greenhouse gas emissions?
Garlic oil may offer a way to reduce cow gas emissions when used with a high concentrate diet, say researchers.
- Make sense of forage analysis results
- What makes a more feed efficient dairy cow?
- Suppressing key gene may improve plant digestion
- Volatile fatty acids boosts calf growth, rumen development
- Feed efficiency improvements boost dairy sustainability
- Supplemental solids boost dairy heifer early growth
- Can methionine supplements support cattle pregnancy?
- Pelleted, treated feeds may boost digestion in growing cattle
Cattle
Scientists look to reduce grain portion of dairy cow diets
Wheat bran and sugar beet pulp can support production while replacing human-edible food stuffs in dairy cattle diets, say researchers.
How can dairy cows improve resistance to disease during early lactation?
Canadian research shows a partial reduction in milk production in early lactation reduces metabolic stress and immunosuppression in high yielding dairy cows
What is the link between genomics and dairy feed efficiency?
A game changing development in dairy cattle feed intake genome trait research will allow for more efficient and sustainable production, says the Dutch academic
Should oilseed supplements be avoided in late-gestation dairy cattle diets?
Oilseed supplementation of dairy cattle diets may have negative effects during the late-gestational period.
Rounding up a cattle virus in human noses
Watch where you sneeze! Humans can make cows sick by transmitting a virus from barn to barn – sometimes in their noses.
Happy farmer, happy cow
Researchers at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute have identified a clear link between the behaviour of farmers and their cows.
Selenium form may play role in increasing cattle fertility
Use of supplemental organic selenium may boost cattle fertility more than an inorganic supplement. Selenium form may play role in increasing cattle fertility
Rumen-protected folic acid may boost dairy cattle production, reproduction
Supplementing dairy cattle diets with rumen-protected folic acid may improve milk production, reproduction and boost intake.
Some forage diets may need added nutrition for dairy cows
An international team of researchers reported results of trials examining nutrient requirements of dairy cattle on low forage proportion and high forage proport
Formulating diets for individual cow needs more suited to smaller scale operations
With increasing competition and shrinking margins, producers need maximum efficiency on their dairies. Precision nutrition is said to help save labor costs
Bacillus-based feed additive may improve dairy milk efficiency, boost health
The use of Bacillus pumilus in dairy cattle feed may improve milk production efficiency and improve health during transition.
More understanding needed on feed ingredient, rumen interaction
Feed ingredient combinations and management practices remain areas for development and research in the US dairy industry, says long-time dairy nutritionist