Summit highlights benefits of focussing on FEED EFFICIENCY IN DAIRY HERDS

摘要

A failure to improve feed efficiency (FCE) in dairy cows will have significant environnnental and econonnic consequences at botli a farm and global level, as delegates at a major global summit arranged by Keenans and Enterprise Ireland were told.The summit, held simultaneously at Irish Embassies in London, Washington DC, The Hague, Paris, Dublin and Berlin and viewed live on-line by a global audience, drew together leading researchers and academics to debate the importance of FCE, and to initiate an industry wide campaign to increase awareness of the opportunity to improve FCE in dairy herds.