TRIAL RESULTS CONFIRM THE BENEFITS OF FIBRE PRE-TREATMENT IN DAIRY MIXED RATIONS
7 December 2016According to recent research, application of a fibre pre-treatment to dairy total mixed rations (TMR) before feeding can increase overall milk production efficiency by 11.3%, enabling similar levels of production from 2.3 kg/day less dry matter intake (DMI). The results come from a trial run by Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AgCanada) at the Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Alberta. Sixty early lactation Holsteins were fed a silage-based TMR, either with no pre-treatment, or with a Trichoderma reesei-derived fungal extract (VistaPre-T) applied as a fibre pre-