EVONIK Rumen Protected Methionine (MEPRON)
Amino acid balancing with MEPRON
Modern day high producing dairy cows are under continuous pressure to produce milk and sometime in the most difficult of conditions. Balancing the ration to maximize the rumen turnover can sometimes meet up to two third of the energy and protein requirement for milk production. Feeding by-pass protein has traditionally been the channel used to meet the extra protein requirements of the cows. Except when feeds like fish meal, which is not allowed in most countries in ruminants rations, is fed, the most limiting amino acid (METHIONINE) in the rations of ruminants is not balanced.
Performances of dairy cows and beef cattle are therefore not always optimal.
The best approach to feeding modern dairy cows and beef cattle should integrate precision balancing of the ration for limiting amino acids, most importantly methionine and to some extent lysine. When protein blends or straights (rapeseed, soya meal etc.) are the main protein source of the ration of high performing dairy and beef herd, balancing for METHIONINE, the most limiting amino acid, is required to optimize performance.
ADDCON Kofasil Range of Silage Additives
Silage Quality is vital for PROFIT
Conserved forages are the most important feed on most farms because of their influence on the extent of farm’s profitability. Coincidentally, they are also the only feed on the farm that the farmer has a significant level of control over.
It is almost impossible to make good quality silage without some form of intervention. The consequences of bad weather at harvest are for example unavoidable. However, measures should be taken to prevent avoidable consequences like mycotoxins, loss of nutrients, fermentation by bad bugs, aerobic instability etc.
An investment in silage additive is therefore considered to be the smartest, smallest, and arguably, the most important investment a farmer will be making every year. That's right, "it has been proven beyond reasonable doubt, that farmers are throwing money away by not using silage additive." I know you've read or heard it a million times but it's true.