Rice for Ruminants: Race for a Science under Shadow

Abstract

This commentary article seeks to increase the global awareness on the special suitability of rice as both grain and roughage feed for livestock of particularly ruminants in modern animal agriculture. This article also proposes a novel ideology that artistic feeding of rice in both high- and low-energy forms grants ruminant enterprises an economical on-farm strategy to improve animal health and production and to reduce occurrence of metabolic disorders, such as fatty liver, hypocalcemia, subacute rumen acidosis (SARA), immune deficiency, metritis and mastitis.