We know that excess nutrients need to be reduced, and the formulation of feed has to be adjusted to the real requirements of the animal.
Rising feed prices, high volatility of prices, and low availability of feed are the most limiting challenges facing dairy farm viability. However, there is an opportunity for ruminants to produce more efficiently through increased protein utilization and reduced nitrogen excretion, impacting the farm's profitability and sustainability significantly.
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Cows have specific requirements for individual amino acid use and, more specifically, when using Methionine and Lysine (the first essential limiting AA). Remarkably, Methionine and Lysine work in unison — both amino acids are necessary for diets for the best and most precise feeding helping achieve maximum production performance without overfeeding protein.
Balancing ruminants' rations with amino acids rather than crude protein is a state-of-the-art approach to protein nutrition and precision nutrition. An inadequate supply affects animal health and productivity. Amino acid nutrition also provides flexibility in formulation when selecting or substituting different feed materials due to either price or availability. AA feeding dairy cows balanced amino acid formulations leads to improved animal production. Balancing dairy rations for amino acids allows more precise feeding so that cows can achieve maximum production performance without overfeeding protein. The improvement in metabolizable protein efficiency provides us an opportunity to formulate diets with lower crude protein content without compromising the yield of milk and milk components, reducing the total feed cost.
Thus, if we want to work in precise nutrition, we must use rumen-protected Methionine and rumen-protected Lysine in moderate crude protein ruminant diets. Rumen-protected amino acids are the best way to provide the limiting amino acids. They offer us flexibility in formulation when selecting or substituting different feed materials due to either price or availability. AA Feeding dairy cows balanced amino acid formulations leads to improved animal production. Balancing dairy rations for amino acids allows more precise feeding so that cows can achieve maximum production performance without overfeeding protein. The improvement in metabolizable protein efficiency provides us an opportunity to formulate diets with lower crude protein content without compromising the yield of milk and milk components, reducing the total feed cost. Thus, if we want to work in precise nutrition, we must use RP-Met and RP-Lys in moderate crude protein ruminant diets. Rumen-protected amino acids are the best way to provide the limiting amino acids.
