The challenge of protein nutrition in dairy cows

For years, at great cost, dairy cows have been overfed crude protein in an attempt to meet amino acid requirements for desired milk yield. Most important aspect in increasing feed efficiency is to use the rumen of dairy cows to its full potential and thus support the activity and growth of the rumen microflora. By Sylvie Andrieu, European ruminant technical manager and Siobhan Collins, solutions deployment team, Alltech Europe The whole animal production industry is currently facing