Forage Quality: Important Attributes & Changes on the Horizon
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I arrived at UC Davis in October 1979, back in the Stone Ages. I can still remember my first UC Davis Dairy Cattle Day presentation (1980) in 194 Chemistry. I presented data from my Ph.D. research on forage quality at Penn State. In my research project the main forage was corn silage along with about three pounds of long alfalfa hay per cow daily. After my talk, a dairy producer came up to introduce himself, to say hello, and to tell me “Ed, corn silage is for low producing cows. In California we feed alfalfa hay to high producing cows.” True, when I came alfalfa hay (hay or cubes) was the predominate forage in the diet of high producing dairy cows.
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