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Transforming a Michigan dairy farm

 

On a 1,500-acre dairy farm in southern Michigan, the Preston family made the bold move to replace nearly one-third of their crops.

“There was a lot of relief that it was all coming together and that it paid off,” says Brian Preston.

Behind the change is a decade of MSU research on cow nutrition led by Adam Lock in the Department of Animal Science.

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