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Introduction The United Nation’s sustainable development goals aim to “…achieve a better and more sustainable future for all” by addressing “…the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice.” These challenges are interconnected and depend on integrating innovative ideas of several science fields to achieve sustainability, especially in livestock production...
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Maxime Briche and Laurine Faivre from Phileo by Lesaffre, explain how Digescan™ provides a digestibility measurement indicator by combining the easy-to-use field tool and the performance of a digital tool
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INTRODUCTION Feed (ration) formulation is a technique by which different feed ingredients are combined to provide required nutrient to animals for a period of time, usually 24 hours, at different stages of production. A ration should supply all essential nutrients and energy to maintain vital physiological functions of growth, reproduction and health of animals. Ration should be palatable, digestible with permissible level of anti-nutritional...
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Nutritionists showed that overfeeding for 8 wk to nonpregnant, nonlactating cows increased adipose tissue mass in nonlactating dairy cows, with omental, mesenteric, and perirenal fat masses about twice as high; however, BCS at the end of the feeding period was not affected. Thus, cows with excessive...
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Boosting Dairy Cow Performance: The Story Behind a Natural Nutritional Solution
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We’ve previously discussed high-shear dry extrusion of corn and how this process can be used to form highly-gelatinized starch that is quickly degraded in the rumen. Among other things, dry extruded corn has more available energy for productive purposes. This means that more of the energy in corn, following dry...
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Wenli Li (US Dairy Forage Research Center) talks about using diets to manipulate rumen microbiome, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
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Technical Advances in Vitamin Physical Properties and Premix Performance
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Introduction Lucerne is the main grazed forage of Argentina. However, there is a large yield and consumption gap on most dairy and beef farms. Jáuregui et al. (2019) indicated that < 5 t ha -1 are consumed on average on dairy farms. There is potential to close the gap by increased grazing frequency, particularly during periods of high growth such as spring (Jáuregui et al., 2022). However, the long-term effects of such management on lucerne persistence...
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The True Future of the Agribusiness and Livestock Sector in 2026
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Introduction The major challenge in livestock farming worldwide is to increase and improve production while limiting environmental impact and competition for resources for human consumption. Ruminants are key to food security as they convert forages, not directly usable by monogastric animals and humans, into animal products for human food. They supply 51% of all protein with respectively 67% and 33% from milk and meat (Gerber et al., 2013). However, ruminant livestock...
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Our solutions and programmes boost milk production and quality throughout the lactation cycle by prompting a better utilisation of nutrients. As a result, we help to ensure dairy farms are profitable and sustainable....
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INTRODUCTION Balchem now manufactures a high-quality, ruminally protected choline product called ReaShure®-XC Rumen Protected Choline, the next generation of ReaShure which provides bioavailable choline in a more concentrated product. Choline is an essential nutrient that enables cows to utilize the fat (NEFA) mobilized from body stores. The production of NEFA is the cows’ natural way of managing negative energy balance during the early stages of lactation and...
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Boosting Dairy Cow Performance: The Story Behind a Natural Nutritional Solution
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Increasing the level of nutrition provided to dairy calves in the first weeks of life has resulted in several benefits such as decreased morbidity and mortality, faster recovery from disease, decreased age at first calving, improved mammary development, and increased milk production as an adult. What causes abomasal...
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NiaShure™ is rumen-protected niacin that helps lower internal body temperature; protecting milk production and reproductive performance during the hot summer months. ...
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Somatic cell count (SCC) is the total number of cells per milliliter of milk and is one of the main indicators of milk quality in dairy cows. Somatic cells are made of 2% mammary gland cells and around 98% white blood cells – leucocytes that are immune cells, produced by the cow’s immune system. As SCC are immune cells, the number found in the milk increases as a response to an immune challenge in the udder. This challenge is usually caused by pathogens and leads to inflammation....
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