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Article: New dairy science study findings recently were reported by G. Adin and co-researchers.(Report)
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- Agriculture Week
- Article date:
- July 23, 2009
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According to a study from Bet Dagan, Israel, "This study measured the effects of including soy-hulls as partial roughage replacement in total mixed rations (TMR) fed to 25 pairs of cows during early lactation, on the dry matter (DM) intake, particle kinetics, rumination, in vivo DM and NDF digestibility, milk and FCM yields, and BW changes. The 2 diets used in this study differed in the content of roughage and roughage NDF [23.5 vs. 35.0%, and 12.8 vs. 18.7% in the experimental (EXP) and control (CON) TMR, respectively]."
"The EXP TMR contained 20.5% less physically effective NDF than the CON TMR (11.7 vs. 14.1% of DM, respectively). These differences were ...