This review examined methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) mitigation strategies for
Canadian dairy farms. The primary focus was research conducted in Canada and cold …

Grasslands are important for sustainable milk and meat production as well as for providing
other ecosystem services. One of the most productive components of short-term grasslands …

The objective of this experiment was to partially replace corn silage with 2 alternative
forages, wheat (Triticum aestivum) or triticale (X Triticosecale) silages at 10% of the diet dry …

Background The fermentation process in silage is an inherently uncontrolled process that
results in significant nutritional losses. Supplementing silage with different additives may …

Twenty-four lactating Holstein cows were used in a 6-wk randomized block design trial with
a 2× 2 factorial arrangement of treatments to determine the effects of feeding ground corn …

Small-scale dairy systems based on grazing have dry-season herbage shortages. A
repeated 3× 3 Latin Square experiment evaluated grazing with silage from maize (MS) …

Key message SNPs and candidate genes associated with bacterial wilt resistance in Italian
ryegrass were identified by sequencing the parental plants and pooled F 1 progeny of a …

The objective of the study was to examine how the fatty acid composition of milk especially
concentrations of conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) and trans-C18: 1 isomers and milk fat …

Background Over the last decade, progress in DNA sequencing technologies and assembly
methods allowed plant scientists to move beyond the use of model organisms and work …

BACKGROUND: Organic milk production aims at efficient use of home‐grown feeds,
especially forages, to minimise the quantity of purchased feeds. In conventional agriculture …