What is the diet of the dairy cows throughout the year?
More than 80% of the Danish dairy cows are pastured during the summer. Therefore their diet is composed of grass combined with silage and concentrate. Concentrate must be free from growth promoters and hormones or other unwanted residues. The Danish Plant Directorate carries out controls to test this. During the winter the cows are kept in joint or individual housing, and their diet is often composed of silage (corn silage, grass silage), sugar beets, ground barley, ground soybeans or other concentrates. The farm is most often self-supplying with roughage and straw.
