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Making butter outa grass

As John Williamson sings, dairy farmers “make a living making butter outa grass”! And this is very true. When a cow eats grass (or grain, hay or silage), the bacteria in her rumen ferment these feedstuffs into volatile fatty acids or “VFAs”. Of...