Dale Blasi, Kansas State University beef cattle nutrition professor, told the audience at the recent HPJ Live how to most ...

Using hay to limit gorging during a sudden fall pasture flush can avoid the dietary shock that sets cattle up for acute ...

Protein in the diet is necessary for optimum cattle performance, and soybeans can deliver. Whether fed as meal, hulls, or ...

Genetic selection is the first step. Key genetic selection tools for breeding cattle include Expected Progeny Differences, ...

Future cattle selection decisions could extend to breeding for rumen microbiome characteristics, say researchers who have recently mapped more bovine rumen microbe genomes than ever before. A British ...

They made significant strides in understanding how dairy cattle convert this complex plant matter—plant material rich in cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin—into high-nutrient milk. Lignocellulose, a ...

Rumen flukes, predominantly Calicophoron daubneyi, have emerged as significant endoparasites in cattle and sheep in Europe and beyond. These trematodes infect ruminants when they ingest encysted ...

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For beef finishers, winter is often a time when a high level of starch is being fed to get animals finished as efficiently and profitably as possible. This can be a risk factor for acidosis. Acidosis ...

Research into the rumen of cattle has led to some encouraging results using additives to reduce methane emissions and increase weight gain. The CSIRO trialled a synthetic and a natural compound in the ...

Picking the market and crunching numbers on daily weight gain is what comes to mind first when the topic of making a cattle trade work comes up but it appears knowing how a rumen works and being at ...