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Can Dairy Cattle be Bred for Increased Forage Consumption and Efficiency of Utilization?¹

Department of Dairy Science, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Sussex

ABSTRACT

In these symposia on forage quality and its evaluation, and forage utilization, much of the emphasis has been on the aspects of the problem related to the plant and to management—how to fertilize the crop, when to cut it, how to harvest it (by animal or machine), whether to store it and how to store it, and finally, how to evaluate it. The animal may be called upon at the harvesting step, or may be bypassed if the forage is to be stored. In the tinal step, also, the animal may be used in evaluating the quality of the forage, or again it may be by-passed in favor of a laboratory procedure which may be much quicker and cheaper, but possibly less accurate. When the animal is used for evaluating the forage, we are, of course, interested in an average value applicable in general to all animals. Variation among the animals is usually considered undesirable, a source of error.

¹ Paper of the Journal Series, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, the State University, New Brunswick.

Presented at the joint meeting of the American Grassland Council and the American Dairy Science Association at Raleigh, North Carolina, June, 1958.