Opening up the structure of dietary fibre helps get the microbes working lot faster

摘要

An open day at a Lancashire farm highlighted ways in which the enzyme-based additive Optimize Plus is claimed to improve the nutrition of our dairy cows. A significant oversight in previous research into improving dry matter intakes of dairy cows hasunderestimated the impact of the speed at which microbes in the gut get to work, according to Dr Roy Fawcett of the Edinburgh-based Bio-Parametrics.