Satellite Symposium 2: Silage
Description
Key points:
- High digestibility grass silage with moderate concentrate supplementation can sustain a large proportion of the cattle performance achieved on high concentrate diets.
- Increasing concentrate supplementation reduces the importance of grass silage nutritional value.
- Subsequent compensatory growth diminishes the advantage of concentrate supplementation of young cattle.
- Meat quality and fatty acid composition can be influenced by grass silage-based diets.
Included in
Agricultural Science Commons, Agronomy and Crop Sciences Commons, Plant Biology Commons, Plant Pathology Commons, Soil Science Commons, Weed Science Commons
Recent Developments in Feeding Beef Cattle on Grass Silage-Based Diets
Key points:
- High digestibility grass silage with moderate concentrate supplementation can sustain a large proportion of the cattle performance achieved on high concentrate diets.
- Increasing concentrate supplementation reduces the importance of grass silage nutritional value.
- Subsequent compensatory growth diminishes the advantage of concentrate supplementation of young cattle.
- Meat quality and fatty acid composition can be influenced by grass silage-based diets.
