“…Weber et al (2006) and Silveira et al (2007b) reported that replacing maize grains with wheat or barley grains in TMR decreased DMI by 2 kg/d in late and early lactating dairy cows, respectively. However, no effects on DMI were observed when cows were fed barley grains differing in ruminal degradability (Silveira et al, 2007a;McGregor et al, 2007;Sadri et al, 2007). In contrast, replacing dry maize grain with high moisture maize, a product with higher ruminal degradability, in a diet relatively low in peNDF, Bradford and Allen (2007) reported a reduced DMI of 2 kg/d, indicating that grain source and conservation technique are also important factors for DMI in dairy cows.…”