Effects of breed, farm intensiveness, and cow productivity on infrared predicted milk urea

ABSTRACT: Milk urea content is receiving growing interest from science and industry as a tool to infer the protein adequacy of dairy cows' diets, nitrogen excretion and its environmental impact, and efficiency of animals' protein metabolism. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) prediction is...

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Main Author: Giovanni Bittante
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-06-01
Series:Journal of Dairy Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030222002466