U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center

Recent papers from U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center

1. Planting date effect on cool‐season grasses herbage accumulation in north FloridaCrop Forage & Turfgrass Management · 2026
2. Impact of rumen microbiome sample handling and extraction procedures on downstream long-read sequencingFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology · 2026
3. Legacy phosphorus management in dairy agroecosystemsJournal of Environmental Quality · 2026
4. Improvement of DSSAT CSM‐CROPGRO‐Cotton model for response to water, nitrogen, weather, and managementAgronomy Journal · 2026
5. Evaluation of LiDAR‐based canopy trait estimation in Midwestern row cropsThe Plant Phenome Journal · 2026
6. PS2-21. Effect of Ile, Leu, and Met and Insulinemic Energy Supplementation on Mammary Gland and Muscle Gene Expression.Journal of Animal Science · 2026
7. Ruminal and Gastrointestinal Degradability of Protein in Alfalfa and Tannin-containing Birdsfoot Trefoil Estimated by an Improved Three-step Procedure.Journal of Animal Science · 2026
8. UAV-Based Prediction of Cover Crop Biomass in Winter Peas Across Planting Dates and Cropping SystemsRemote Sensing · 2026
9. Evaluating the Impact of High- and Low-Starch Diets on the Ruminal Microbiota of Dairy CowsMicroorganisms · 2026
10. Assessment of genomic prediction and genetic gain in multi‑population half-sib families in the perennial grass crop intermediate wheatgrassPLoS ONE · 2026
11. Phenology and developmental stage mediate symbiotic N fixation in a hairy vetch breeding programAgrosystems Geosciences & Environment · 2026
12. Thermal properties of soil irrigated with treated municipal and industrial wastewaterSoil Science Society of America Journal · 2026
13. Supply of a histidine-rich bypass protein source improves productive performance and N efficiency independently of metabolizable Met and LysJournal of Dairy Science · 2026
14. Standardized microhaplotype databases and frameworks for assessing and mining crop genetic diversityTheoretical and Applied Genetics · 2026
15. Sexual Selection as a Driver of Shared Neural and Reproductive MechanismsInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2026
16. Evaluating conditioned place preference in calves 0 and 20 days after hot-iron disbuddingScientific Reports · 2026
17. A Single-Operator Push-Cart Multi-Beam LiDAR Platform for Multi-Trait Field PhenotypingSensors · 2026
18. Participatory systems modeling of food value chains to improve food and nutrition security under climate changeFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · 2026
19. Paternal Methionine Supplementation Alters DNA Methylation Patterns in Preimplantation Sheep EmbryosEpigenomes · 2026
20. Pangenome-based structural variant imputation enables large-scale genotype-phenotype studies in dairy cattleNature Communications · 2026