10% more milk
Aber High Sugar Grass offers a greater level of
soluble carbohydrate in its leaf. It's more digestible - and more
palatable.
Cows mow it to the ground and they convert this
grass' protein into milk protein more easily.
The bottom line is more milk in the
vat.
Tom Paton Maffra, Victoria
"Costs keep going up and the best way to make money out of dairy
cows is to grow a grass that feeds them properly. Our milk yield
will lift 30 percent when the whole farm is in AberDart.
When you see cows taking it down to the ground then you know you
have a tasty grass.
It stood up to 45 degree days in February, then four weeks of 38
degree days followed by sub-zeros in May."
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Reinier van Zyl Yambuk, Victoria
"We were grazing AberDart at 2800-3000kgDM every 15 days (in
spring) while other paddocks with the same fertiliser, soil and
water are in a 23 day round. Fonterra supply dockets show a 1.2
litre lift per cow per day when on AberDart for four days. Milk
flow was again up for the next four days when on AberDart at
night."
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Australian and New Zealand dairy farmers consistently
report milk production gains when their cows graze AberHSG
pasture.
Research confirms the increase in NZ where AgResearch reported a
10% increase in autumn milksolids from cows grazing AberDart,
compared to cows grazing other modern ryegrasses. In Wales,
the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (IGER)
reported a 7.5% increase in milk yield when fed AberHSG during
early lactation and a 21% increase during late lactation.
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