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Dairy producers to gain from genomic feed efficiency study data
Jul 26, 2017, 16:20 PM
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A University of Wisconsin researcher says their dairy genomic feed efficiency study will help farmers reduce future production costs.
Dr. Kent Weigel tells Brownfield producers will see useful information from the study soon, so they can get more milk from less feed. “What you’ll see, probably in December, are sire summaries for dairy cattle or more likely in April of next year, our genetic predictions for what’s called feed saved.”
Weigel tells Brownfield most of the weighing, measuring, and body scoring of nearly 8-thousand cows is done, and they’re working with the data.
