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Ensuring repeat grass growth is essential

Surviving high North American feed prices Photo: Jan Willem Schouten

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Surviving high North American feed prices

Wood residues in ruminant nutrition. Photo: Shutterstock

20-09-2021 | Article

Wood residues in ruminant nutrition

Professor Emily Burton of Nottingham Trent University touched on a new initiative that involved recycling industrial carbon dioxide into a cost-competitive protein. Photo: Nottingham Trent University

20-09-2021 | Article

Relying solely on soybean meal as a protein source is risky

High-moisture materials such as vegetable waste may seem like a bargain, but can be expensive on a dry matter basis, so farmers need to do their homework. Photo: Loop

13-09-2021 | Article

From the US to India, turning food waste into milk

Seaweed is an important source of hydrocolloids. These water-soluble carbohydrates increase the viscosity of solutions to form gels. Photo: Koos Groenewold

10-09-2021 | Article

Benefits of pellet binders using natural sources like seaweed

The change in legislation allows PAPs from pigs to be used in poultry feed, and PAPs from poultry to be used in pig feed. Photo: Olinkykfoto

30-08-2021 | Article

Lifting ban on PAPs in feed welcomed by industry

The potential of lupins as a soy alternative

23-08-2021 | Article

The potential of lupins as a soy alternative

The study shows that replacing barley with oats in the diet of dairy cows fed a grass silage-based diet can be used to mitigate enteric CH4 emissions. Photo: Herbert Wiggerman

20-08-2021 | Article

Oats instead of barley: A good choice to reduce methane

Dr Dan Loper says he came up with the idea of TMR in the early 1970s. Photo: Dan Loper

16-08-2021 | Article

The US history of TMR – a dangerous game