Want to see how tiny viruses could reshape dairy nutrition? We sit down with Dr. Hugo Monteiro of the University of California-Davis to explore the unseen forces inside the rumen and how they tie directly to feed efficiency, milk production, and methane reduction. His work connects residual feed intake (RFI), microbial ecology, and host genetics into a framework that makes efficiency measurable and actionable. We start by clarifying why RFI outperforms traditional metrics: it isolates true b...
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Want to see how tiny viruses could reshape dairy nutrition? We sit down with Dr. Hugo Monteiro of the University of California-Davis to explore the unseen forces inside the rumen and how they tie directly to feed efficiency, milk production, and methane reduction. His work connects residual feed intake (RFI), microbial ecology, and host genetics into a framework that makes efficiency measurable and actionable. We start by clarifying why RFI outperforms traditional metrics: it isolates true b...
From field to feed bunk: The HarvXtra Alfalfa advantage
Feedstuffs in Focus
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1 week ago
From field to feed bunk: The HarvXtra Alfalfa advantage
Weather rarely cooperates, cows never take a day off, and forage quality used to hinge on a calendar. We sit down with Phil Bollman, National Sales and Marketing Director at Forage Genetics International, to unpack how lower‑lignin alfalfa flips the script on the old quality‑versus‑tonnage compromise and gives dairy producers real control over digestibility, timing, and ROI. Phil draws on decades as a dairy nutritionist to explain why alfalfa remains the backbone of high‑performing rations: ...
Feedstuffs in Focus
Want to see how tiny viruses could reshape dairy nutrition? We sit down with Dr. Hugo Monteiro of the University of California-Davis to explore the unseen forces inside the rumen and how they tie directly to feed efficiency, milk production, and methane reduction. His work connects residual feed intake (RFI), microbial ecology, and host genetics into a framework that makes efficiency measurable and actionable. We start by clarifying why RFI outperforms traditional metrics: it isolates true b...
