Tuesday 22 November 2011

Dairy farms have problems with mycotoxins

Missing the smallest detail can have a detrimental effect on feed use efficiency and performance, this was a problem UK dairy farmers found out to their cost. Rowe Farm, Whittington, Gloucestershire discovered a sudden drop in milk production, that was later found to be attributed to mycotoxins. Mycotoxins can be found throughout the UK, studies undertaken on 38 samples of UK maize and whole-crop wheat silages for harvest in 2007 showed high levels of widespread mycotoxin contamination with no specific geographical bias. Read more ...
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