Study: Higher grain diets better for young heifers

Research shows that growing heifers digest grains more efficiently than forages. Some of the latest studies on feeding replacement heifers looks at adding more grain than hay into the diets of young heifers and how this impacts weight gain and feed efficiency. One of those studies, conducted at Purdue University in the summer of 2012, evaluated the effects of increasing grain inclusion in growing-heifer diets. Diets used in the study contained 80%, 60% and 40% grain and were formulated to be 18