Kathy G. Arriola

TL;DR: A meta-analysis found that silage inoculation with LAB markedly increased silage fermentation and dry matter recovery in temperate and tropical grasses, alfalfa, and other legumes and increased milk yield and the response had low heterogeneity, but inoculation had no effect on diet digestibility and feed efficiency.

TL;DR: This fibrolytic enzyme increased the digestibility of DM, CP, neutral detergent fiber, and acid detergent Fiber and the efficiency of milk production by dairy cows and resulted in as much milk production as that from cows fed the untreated high-concentrate diet.

TL;DR: All silages were very stable (>250 h) and aerobic stability was not improved by any inoculant but was lower in B500 silages versus others, and only treatment with BUC reduced DM losses.

TL;DR: This project aimed to evaluate the effects 8 additives on the fermentation, dry matter (DM) losses, nutritive value, and aerobic stability of corn silage, suggesting that fermentation was more extensive and protein degradation was less in BEN silages.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize published responses to treatment of cattle diets with exogenous fibrolytic enzymes (EFE), to discuss reasons for variable EFE efficacy in animal trials, to recommend strategies for improving enzyme testing and EFE effectiveness in ruminant diets, and to identify proteomic differences between effective and ineffective EFE.