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we can improve the fatty acid
makeup of soybean oil. No one in
the private sector will address that
question - because there’s no
guarantee of a payoff,” continues
Fehr.
“But the private sector is eager
to make improvements in oil
quality - if the systems are there
that they can use. But who will
develop those systems? Obviously,
public programs like ours at lowa
State University. Our work
complements each other’s. The
farmer benefits from both.”
Charles Brim, manager of
soybean and northern corn
research at Funk Seeds In
ternational, agrees. “Both private
industry and the public sector are
interested in the same thing -
that’s serving the farmer,” Brim
says. "University researchers can
work on a long-term basic problem
that may or may not be a con
straint on production. Some
Buffers have added benefits
MINNEAPOLIS, MN. - Some
buffers added to livestock rations
may do more than just neutralize
rumen acids, a leading animal
nutritionist reported here recently.
Speaking at the Buffers,
Neutralizers and Electrolytes
Symposium sponsored by the
National Feed Ingredients
Association (NFIA), William
Chalupa of the University of
Pennsylvania said that increased
rumen fluid turnover and in
creased blood pH are among the
other benefits of buffer feeding.
“Buffers were first introduced
into diets of dairy cows with the
objective of combating milk fat
depression. At first, the mode of
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disease that is not important now
may five years down the road be
terribly important.”
What research will scientists do
in the future? They are working on
many projects now for the future.
But research does not happen
quickly. It is something that
generally takes a long period of
tune - particularly in the genetic
area. It takes about five years
before anything done at a given
time can be turned into varieties
the farmer can use, Fehr notes.
And research is not something that
you can say 'lO years from now we
will do thus and so’, he adds.
"However, we can say with
certainty that with checkoff
support, when opportunities
develop, we will be able to take
advantage of them, as we have
been able to do in the past.
"But without checkoff support,
we will have to let them go by,”
Fehr says. In the end, the farmer
will be the loser, he concludes.
action was assumed to be buffering
only, and the site of action to be the
rumen only,” Chalupa said.
"Subsequently, substances usually
regarded as buffers have been
shown to act at several sites and in
several ways.
•‘Bicarbonate, phosphate and
VFA are the main buffer systems
for regulating pH of rumen con
tents within the range of 5.5 7.3.”
Other buffers, such as magnesium
oxide and limestone, are more
correctly called “alkalinizing
agents" because of their role in
raising rumen pH.
In addition to buffering the
rumen, sodium bicarbonate in
creases blood pH and bicarbonate
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content, enhancing metabolic
efficiency. Magnesium oxide has
had the same effect in some ex
periments, but limestone has not.
Some buffers - sodium bicar
bonate and sodium bentonite, but
not magnesium oxide nor
limestone - also increase the
movement of fluids through the
rumen, Chalupa said. Increased
turnover rate affects rumen
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microbe action, increasing the
acelale-10-propionale ration in the
rumen. This in turn enhances
butterfat production.
Magnesium oxide, and possibly
bentonite, may act directly on the
mammary gland to improve fat
production in dairy cattle.
"Addition of magnesium oxide to
tat-depressing diets may increase
the transfer ot fatty acids from
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blood to the mammary tissue,”
Chalupa explained. It is not known
whether sodium bicarbonate or
limestone act similarly.
The small and large intestines
are also sites of buffer action,
C'halupa said. Addition of
magnesium oxide or limestone to
diets improves digestion by raising
pH in the lower digestive tract.
The Leroy Howard Family of Oley, Pa.
has installed this Meuller Refrigerated
Receiver on their pipeline milking
system to pre-cool the milk before
storing in their 1500 Gallon Mueller
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They figure the receiver should save
700 hours of running time per year on
their dual 5-HP units. “The blend stays
below 42°”, Leroy says, in his effort to
produce a better quality product at a
lower operating cost!