Performance and cheese quality of Brown cows grazing on mountain pasture fed two different levels of supplementation

Bovolenta, S.; Corazzin, Mirco; Saccà, Elena; Gasperi, F.; Biasioli, Franco; Ventura, W.

doi:10.1016/j.livsci.2008.12.009

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“…On an alpine pasture in Italy (1900 m a.s.l. ), Bovolenta et al (2009) supplemented the cow diet with 4.8 kg of organic matter per day, resulting in an increase in milk yield of only 0.9 kg day -1 . The supplements actually reduce the intake of grass and the net energy intake is increased only at higher levels of supplementation (Berry 2000).…”

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Swiss alpine summer farming: current status and future development under climate change

Herzog

Seidl

2018

Rangel. J.

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Abstract. High altitude grazing is widespread around the globe and also has a long tradition in European mountain regions. One-third of the Swiss farmland consists of summer pastures: seasonally used marginal pastures without permanent settlements, which extend between the grasslands and forests of permanent mountain settlements and unproductive mountain tops. Farmers' main motivations for using those pastures have been and still are forage provision and health benefits for grazing animals, benefits for labour distribution between home farm and summer farm, and cultural ecosystem services such as the maintenance of a tradition and the associated lifestyle. Yet, remote pastures are being abandoned and are prone to reforestation, while more productive and accessible pastures are intensified. Those processes are related to changes in management practices, to scarcity of labour and -to a lesser extent -to climate change. We summarise the agronomic and ecological status of Swiss summer pastures, in particular with respect to livestock keeping, biodiversity and climate change, and speculate on future trends of summer farming.

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Section: Livestock Keeping: Intensity and Feeding Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

Swiss alpine summer farming: current status and future development under climate change

Herzog

Seidl

2018

Rangel. J.

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“…Nevertheless, it is still the most important breed across all the dairy systems. In this context, the future trend of Brown Swiss will likely depend more on the maintenance or improvement of its fertility and longevity (Tiezzi et al, 2012), milkability (Povinelli et al, 2003), milk quality Macciotta et al, 2012), and harsh environment adaptation (Bovolenta et al, 2009), than on further improvements of milk productivity. The expansion of Simmental has interested almost exclusively the traditional systems, and is probably a result of an improvement of milk productivity, mainly with German and Austrian Fleckvieh and with French Montbeliarde semen, which has not affected the original dual-purpose characteristics.…”

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Dairy systems in mountainous areas: Farm animal biodiversity, milk production and destination, and land use

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“…The effects of transhumance to summer farms on the nutritional status of animals and their milk production and quality are important issues, given that the milk is often processed into high-value products, yet so far they have been addressed in few experiments (Bovolenta et al 1998(Bovolenta et al , 2009Leiber et al 2006;Romanzin et al 2013;Farruggia et al 2014). When moved to summer pastures, cows experience a change in diet, an increased energy expenditure due to the movement associated with grazing, new interactions with unknown individuals in the case of mixed herds, and a general need to adapt to a different environment.…”

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“…These conditions could result in nutritional imbalance, which in turn will affect milk production and composition, and ultimately cheese yield. Normally, supplement concentrates are provided (Leiber et al 2006;Bovolenta et al 2009), but compensating for the nutritional deficiencies of pasture is a difficult task where animals graze in heterogeneous swards and are free to move over wide areas. This is of particular concern when comparing highlyspecialised breeds with dual-purpose or local breeds, characterised by lower productive potentials and requirements, but by better adaptation to the difficult conditions of mountain pastures.…”

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Transhumance of dairy cows to highland summer pastures interacts with breed to influence body condition, milk yield and quality

Zendri¹,

Ramanzin²,

Bittante³

et al. 2016

Italian Journal of Animal Science

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This paper aimed at testing the differences of adaptability of bovine dairy, dual purpose and local breeds during the summer transhumance to highland pastures (summer farms), evaluating temporal variations of body condition and of milk yield and quality. Data were from 799 dairy cows of specialised (Holstein Friesian and Brown Swiss), dual purpose (Simmental) and local (mostly Rendena and Alpine Grey) breeds, and were collected before and after the transhumance in 109 permanent dairy farms, and during transhumance in 15 summer farms of the Autonomous Province of Trento, north-eastern Italy. Body Condition Score (BCS), milk production and quality (fat, protein, casein, lactose, urea, SCS) were analysed for the fixed effects of breed, parity, days in milk, month, supplementary concentrate level, and for the random effects of summer farm and individual cow. Body condition score was influenced by transhumance to summer farms, with low values in July and a recovery at the end of the period. This pattern was particularly marked in the specialised breeds. Similarly, also milk production declined, especially for Holstein Friesian and Brown Swiss, so that towards the end of transhumance all breeds had similar milk productions. Returning to permanent farms did not compensate the specialised breeds for the production loss experienced at the beginning of the grazing season. In conclusion, local and dual purpose breeds adapt better than specialised breeds to the summer pastures, and this results into an important reduction of their productive gaps (with lower variations of milk quality) and in maintaining body fat reserves. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Performance and cheese quality of Brown cows grazing on mountain pasture fed two different levels of supplementation

Cited by 38 publications

References 49 publications

Swiss alpine summer farming: current status and future development under climate change

Swiss alpine summer farming: current status and future development under climate change

Dairy systems in mountainous areas: Farm animal biodiversity, milk production and destination, and land use

Transhumance of dairy cows to highland summer pastures interacts with breed to influence body condition, milk yield and quality

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