Meat and milk from ruminants provide an important source of protein and other nutrients for
human consumption. Although ruminants have a unique advantage of being able to …

Ruminants are foregut fermenters that have the remarkable ability of converting plant
polymers that are indigestible to humans into assimilable comestibles like meat and milk …

Simple Summary The need to become more efficient in agriculture and the food industry
exists parallel to the challenge of climate change. Meat and dairy production is the target of …

The rumen contains a great diversity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms that
allow the ruminant to utilize ligno-cellulose material and to convert non-protein nitrogen into …

Efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of milk production through selection and management
of low-emitting cows require accurate and large-scale measurements of methane (CH 4) …

Due to climate change, periods of drought might be longer and occur more frequently, which
challenges roughage production and requires changed feeding of dairy cattle by increasing …

Although fat content in usual ruminant diets is very low, fat supplements can be given to farm
ruminants to modulate rumen activity or the fatty acid (FA) profile of meat and milk …

Four lipid supplements varying in chain length or degree of unsaturation were examined for
their effects on milk yield and composition, ruminal CH 4 emissions, rumen fermentation …

Domestic goats (Capra hircus) are spread across the five continents with a census of 1
billion individuals. The worldwide population of goats descends from a limited number of …

Modern society is characterised by its outstanding capacity to generate waste.
Lignocellulosic biomass is most abundant in nature and is biorenewable and contains …