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Effects of cutting height at harvest of fermented whole crop wheat and supplement type on milk production by dairy cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

L.A. Sinclair  and
R.G. Wilkinson
L.A. Sinclair
Affiliation:
ASRC, School of Agriculture, Harper Adams University College, Edgmond, Newport, Shropshire TF10 8NB, UK
R.G. Wilkinson
Affiliation:
ASRC, School of Agriculture, Harper Adams University College, Edgmond, Newport, Shropshire TF10 8NB, UK
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Previous work conducted with fermented whole crop wheat (WCW) silage has focussed on the effects that stage of maturity can have on nutritive value and milk production (Sinclair and Wilkinson 1998, Phipps et al. 1998). An alternative means of manipulating the nutritive value of WCW is to alter the relative proportion of straw to grain through altering cutting height at harvest. Additionally, the form of energy supplied by the concentrate also offers the potential of manipulating milk production in cows fed diets containing WCW. The objectives of the current experiment were therefore to determine the effect of two cutting heights at harvest and supplement type on the performance of dairy cows offered fermented WCW silage.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1999 , 1999 , pp. 70
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1999

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Sinclair, L.A. and Wilkinson, R.G. (1998). Effects of stage of maturity of fermented whole crop wheat on milk production by dairy cows. Proceedings of the Winter Meeting of the British Society of Animal Science, 145.Google Scholar
Phipps, R.H., Sutton, J.D. and Jones, A.K. (1998) Whole crop wheat: effect of crop maturity on feed intake and milk production by dairy cows. Proceedings of the Winter Meeting of the British Society of Animal Science, 146.Google Scholar