Claim · model-written summary
Cows grazing CLOVER swards consumed 1.03 kg more total DMI than GRASS cows.
- Taxon
- Lolium perenne L.
Lolium perennee1 - Treatment
- CLOVER swardse7
- Outcome
- total DMI (TDMI)e7
- Direction
- greatere7
- Value
- 1.03 kge7
- Comparator
- GRASS cowse7
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Verbatim
e1“perennial ryegrass (PRG; Lolium perenne L.)”
e7“The cows grazing the CLOVER swards consumed, on average, 1.03 kg greater total DMI (TDMI) compared with the GRASS cows”
Title
E. Fitzpatrick; L. Delaby; S. McAuliffe; et al. Journal of Dairy Science 2026. doi:10.3168/jds.2025-27223
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Cows fed the TMR diet produced significantly more milk yield than on pasture-based diets (+ 5.0 kg).
- Intervention effect Cows fed the TMR diet had significantly higher dry matter intake than on pasture-based diets (+2.8 kg).
- Intervention effect The TMR treatment gave cows more energy for milk production after maintenance than GRASS and CLOVER (+2.84 UFL).
- Intervention effect TMR and CLOVER cows required similar energy to produce 1 kg of STDMY.
- Intervention effect All treatments had similar energy available for MS production after maintenance (148.64 g UFL).
- Intervention effect Cows fed the TMR diet consumed an additional 2.30 kg DMI per day compared with CLOVER cows.
- Intervention effect CLOVER swards gave cows greater daily milk yield than GRASS (+1.2 kg).
- Intervention effect CLOVER swards gave cows greater MS yield than GRASS (0.12 kg).
- Intervention effect At white clover inclusion rates of 31.3 and 37.7% in July and September, herbage NDF was reduced compared with GRASS.