The contributions that ruminant livestock make to greenhouse gas and other pollutant
emissions are well documented and of considerable policy and public concern. At the same …

Research conducted over recent decades to improve understanding of the functional
responses among sward characteristics, intake rate and grazing behaviour has been …

There is an increasing pressure on temperate pastoral dairy production systems to reduce
environmental impacts, coming from the inefficient use of N by cows in the form of excessive …

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) cut at sundown has been shown to contain greater concentration
of total nonstructural carbohydrates (TNC) than that cut at sunup. Fourteen multiparous (8 …

Evaluation of feed efficiency (FE; calculated as energy-corrected milk yield/dry matter intake)
and milk nitrogen efficiency (MNE; calculated as milk N yield/N intake) is needed to help …

Simple Summary In pasture based systems dairy cows spend more than 50% of their time
grazing and ruminating, thus these behaviours require a lot of time and energy …

While increases in nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) content of forages are generally
considered advantageous, there are times during the growing season when grasses with …

Twenty Holstein cows were split into two equal groups to test the effect of daily move to a
previously ungrazed strip after morning milking (MA) or afternoon milking (AA) on herbage …

This work aimed to assess the impact of timing of herbage allocation and fasting on patterns
of ingestive behavior, herbage intake, ruminal fermentation, nutrient flow to the duodenum …

Two complementary experiments were completed to assess short-term foraging dynamics,
diet quality, and ruminal degradation kinetics of herbage consumed by steers with 3 levels of …