Ruminant diets include cereals, protein feeds, their by-products as well as hay and grass,
grass/legume, whole-crop maize, small grain or sorghum silages. Furthermore, ruminants …

Ensiled forage, particularly corn silage, is an important component of dairy cow diets
worldwide. Forages can be contaminated with several mycotoxins in the field pre-harvest …

Aflatoxins are wide-spread harmful carcinogenic secondary metabolites produced by
Aspergillus species, which cause serious feed and food contaminations and affect farm …

The present revision shows the early and current knowledge in the field of silage fungi and
mycotoxins explaining the relevance of fungi and mycotoxins in silage. The problem does …

Ruminants are considered to be less sensitive towards mycotoxins than monogastric
animals because rumen microbiota have mycotoxin‐detoxifying capacities. Therefore the …

Silage making increased considerably from the 1960s and is the predominant method of
forage preservation in temperate areas of the world. Silage is widely used in farms and has …

Silage contains a number of potential hazards to the safety and quality of milk and dairy
products. This paper reviews the present knowledge about silage as a source of (1) spores …

Moulds are capable of reducing the nutritional value of feedstuff as well as elaborating
several mycotoxins. Mycotoxin‐contaminated feed has adverse effects on animal health and …

Maize silage, which in Europe is the main feed for dairy cattle in winter, can be contaminated
by mycotoxins. Mycotoxigenic Fusarium spp. originating from field infections may survive in …

The objectives of this study were to investigate the transfer of aflatoxin from feed to milk and
to evaluate the effects of Solis Mos (SM; Novus International Inc., St. Charles, MO) on milk …