Partial replacement of soybean meal with soybean silage in lactating dairy cows diet: part 1, milk production, digestibility, and N balance

Autor: Andrea Rota Graziosi, Stefania Colombini, Gianni Matteo Crovetto, Gianluca Galassi, Maria Chiaravalli, Marco Battelli, Davide Reginelli, Francesca Petrera, Luca Rapetti
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Italian Journal of Animal Science, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 634-644 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1594-4077
1828-051X
1828051X
DOI: 10.1080/1828051X.2021.2008818
Popis: The high reliance of the European livestock sector on imported soybean meal (SBM), especially from South America, poses environmental problems, like greenhouse gas emissions for transportation and land-use change with the loss of carbon stock and biodiversity. Aim of the present study was to evaluate the partial substitution of SBM with whole-plant soybean silage in the diet of dairy cows. Thirty-six lactating Holstein cows were arranged according to a change-over design, with 2 weeks of adaptation and 5 days of sampling per period. A control diet (CON) was based on maize silage and SBM, representing 10.7% of total dry matter (DM). In a soybean silage diet (SBS) 35% (on DM basis) of SBM was replaced by soybean silage. The dietary treatment did not affect DM intake, milk production, and dairy efficiency while cows fed SBS resulted in lower milk crude protein (3.43 vs. 3.55%, p
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