Why does more milk matter?  Because milk products contain high quality proteins and nutrients that are beneficial to a person’s overall health. Milk is also an essential component of children’s diet for growth and development.  In fact, milk products provide about 73 percent of the calcium available in the food supply. 

Thanks to a product from Mycogen Seeds, a retail seed company of Dow AgroSciences, dairy cows can produce more milk.  Mycogen Seeds is the industry leader for Silage-Specific™ corn hybrids, which are bred specifically for nutritional quality for dairy cattle.  Silage, corn harvested while green and kept moist by partial fermentation, is a key feedstuff for cows.  Mycogen brand Silage-Specific corn hybrids lead to higher digestibility that leads to higher production of milk. 

Mycogen brand Silage-Specific brown mid-rib (BMR) corn hybrids result in an average of 4.8 pounds more milk per cow per day than cows fed non-BMR hybrids.

Agriculture today must be more efficient than ever to feed a growing world with finite natural resources, so helping dairy cows improve what they do best – make milk – is good for everybody.

Dow AgroSciences and Mycogen Seeds: Providing products that improve the quantity of milk production, contributing to the health and quality of life of the world's growing population.

For more information about Mycogen Seeds, visit their Web site:  http://www.dowagro.com/mycogen/index.htm