Importance of chromium nutrition in dairy cattle. A review. Chromium (Cr) essentially has been recognized for animals and humans since the early 50s. Its major role is as a component of the Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF) ...

Arachis pintoi / grass mixtures: an alternative for sustainable land use in livestock systems. Arachis pintoi is a tropical legume adapted to medium/low fertility acid soils, grows well at elevations between 0 to 1800 ...

Factors affecting milk solid content. The solid content of the milk is affected by a genetic and environmental factor, which include the age of the cow, environmental temperature, milking management, health of the cow and ...

Farm and semi-industrial production of nutritional blocks. Due to the great interest among beef producers for improving productivity and reproductive performance, as well as facing the problems of feeding their livestock ...

Estimated nutritive quality of forages in the San Carlos County. Costa Rica. III. Energy for milk production. A total of 192 hand plucked samples of Cynodon nlemfuensis, Setaria anceps var White, Setaria anceps var Purple, ...