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Fibre study highlights waste

Fibre in forages is the most underused feed resource in dairy cow diets according to a UK and Ireland study that used new technology to investigate fibre digestibility in a range of herds

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Fibre study highlights waste

The Cargill UK Fibre Focus project analysed the nutrient content of total mixed ration (TMR) for 25 groups of cows on farms in the UK and Ireland using the polispec NIR reader. Results were compared with...

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