Bob Mitchell
For University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
“On average only about a quarter of the crude protein in a dairy ration goes to milk,” says Sebastian I Arriola Apelo, an assistant professor in the Dairy Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The rest is excreted in urine and feces.”
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