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Article: Milk fat depression in dairy cattle multifaceted.(Brief Article)
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- Feedstuffs
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- March 4, 2002
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The subject of depressed milk fat level in cow's milk has been through a number of findings: the earliest in 1845 from beets fed to dairy cows, in 1824 from feeding fish oil, in 1924 and 1926 from feeding cod liver oil, in 1939 from grinding forage and in more recent findings from conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). These and more findings are all chronicled in the most recent review of this subject by Bauman and Griinari (2001).
Since milk fat content accounts for about 50% of the energy in milk, and since dairy producers are paid for milk at least partly on the basis of milk fat level, this topic is still very timely.
There have been a number of prior key ...