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Sugarcane Silage - Perfect Combination Of Quality Nutrition

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The Sugarcane Silage of dairy cows is at the top of the priorities of farmers who work to have an efficient barn with a homogeneous distribution of parts throughout the year. Nutrition plays a very important role in Sugarcane Silage. The first thing to take into consideration is that the physiology of the super-selected Sugarcane Silage gives priority to the production of milk and its constituents and only puts reproduction in second place, at least until the cow is pregnant again. In addition, the cow is a ruminant, and as such it mainly uses amino acids, deriving from the rumen microbial protein and from foods that escape rumen degradation, to produce glucose and therefore energy and lactose. Finally, a fact that must always be kept in mind is the massive consumption of amino acids stored in muscle tissue during the phases of negative energy balance; according to some studies, during the period from 2 weeks before calving to 5 weeks after, cows can mobilize up to 21 kg of "mus