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. 2013 Aug;26(8):1137–1143. doi: 10.5713/ajas.2013.13181

Table 4.

Effect of yeast culture supplementation (SC)1 on milk yield and milk composition on Farm 2

Item Control SC SEM p-value
SC DIM SC×DIM
Dry matter intake (kg/d) 18.5 18.8 0.182 0.313 0.035 0.061
Milk yield (kg/d) 18.0 19.4 0.412 0.017 <0.001 0.028
Milk fat (%) 2.79 3.11 0.065 0.009 0.008 0.049
Milk protein (%) 2.97 3.08 0.012 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
Milk fat yield (kg/d) 0.50 0.61 0.019 0.002 0.001 0.371
Milk protein yield (kg/d) 0.53 0.59 0.013 0.001 <0.001 0.030
3.5% FCM (kg/d) 15.9 18.3 0.338 0.002 0.035 0.362
Feed efficiency 0.87 0.99 0.020 0.011 <0.001 0.218
1

SC = 56 g/cow/d, Diamond V Original XP, Diamond V, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.