Milkway™

Tall Fescue & Meadow Fescue Blend

Highly Digestible, Effective Fiber
High Energy
Improves Milk Yield & Butterfat
Stable NDF & NDFd
High Dry Matter Production
Traffic Tolerant

Unleash the Potential of Your Herd with Milkway™

High-producing dairy cows need forage that delivers both effective fiber and high digestibility. Milkway™ combines high-yielding meadow fescues with late-maturing, soft-leaf tall fescues to provide exceptionally digestible, high-energy forage for dairy rations, hay fields, and premium pastures.

Why Choose Milkway™?

Optimized Forage Quality

Milkway™ delivers exceptionally high neutral detergent fiber digestibility (NDFd), helping forage move through the digestive system efficiently while providing the physically effective fiber dairy cows need for healthy rumen function.

Its meadow fescues contribute high yield and digestibility, while the soft-leaf tall fescues provide stable NDF and NDFd throughout the growing season. This combination helps producers maintain more consistent forage quality from cutting to cutting.

Effective Fiber with High Energy

Many high-energy dairy rations contain abundant starch and sugar but lack enough highly digestible, physically effective fiber. Milkway™ helps balance those rations by supplying fiber that supports cud chewing and rumen function without limiting intake like lower-digestibility forage sources can.

Exceptional Yielding Capability

Milkway™ combines high forage quality with dependable dry matter production. Once established, it provides excellent longevity and productive yields, helping dairy producers generate more high-quality feed from their available acres.

Seamless Integration

Milkway™ performs well as a standalone hay crop or as a companion with alfalfa. It can also be used as a high-quality pasture mixture in the Upper Midwest and other adapted cool-season regions where producers want highly digestible dairy forage.

When paired with alfalfa, Milkway™ adds digestible grass fiber to the stand while helping create a more balanced forage source for dairy rations.

Benefits for Dairy Producers

Improve Milk Yield and Butterfat

Milkway™ is designed to support both milk production and milk components. According to the tech sheet, using Milkway™ in a dairy total mixed ration can improve milk production by 5% to 15% compared with traditional wheat-straw diets.

Highly digestible fiber also supports the production of acetate and butyrate in the rumen, important building blocks for milkfat. NutriFiber™ research has shown that increasing digestible fiber in dairy rations can improve milkfat while maintaining milk production.

Stable Forage Quality

The soft-leaf tall fescues in Milkway™ maintain stable NDF and NDFd throughout the season, helping reduce fluctuations in feed quality and giving nutritionists a more consistent forage ingredient for ration formulation.

Traffic Tolerant and Farm Ready

Milkway™ tolerates field traffic and is well suited to operations where repeated manure applications and harvest passes are part of the production system. Its persistence and broad adaptation help it perform under the demands of working dairy farms.

Part of the NutriFiber™ Family

Milkway™ is part of Barenbrug’s NutriFiber™ family of products, a collection of forage grasses developed to provide dairy cows with fiber that is both highly digestible and physically effective. NutriFiber™ forages are designed to help balance high-energy rations, support rumen health, reduce the risk of acidosis, and improve milkfat while maintaining strong milk production.

Within the NutriFiber™ family, Milkway™ combines meadow fescue and soft-leaf tall fescue to deliver high NDF digestibility, effective fiber, stable seasonal quality, and dependable perennial production.

Why Producers Choose Milkway™

Effective Fiber: Supports cud chewing and healthy rumen function.
High NDF Digestibility: Helps improve forage intake and utilization.
High Energy: Provides premium forage for high-producing dairy cows.
Improved Milk Yield and Butterfat: Supports both production and milk components.
Stable Seasonal Quality: Maintains dependable NDF and NDFd throughout the season.
High Dry Matter Production: Produces abundant, high-quality perennial forage.
Flexible Use: Ideal as a standalone hay crop, with alfalfa, or in premium dairy pastures.
Wide Adaptation: Performs across a broad range of cool-season growing conditions.
Traffic Tolerant: Well suited to repeated manure applications and field operations.

Produce More Milk from Better Fiber

Whether you are producing premium hay, improving an alfalfa mixture, or building a high-quality dairy pasture, Milkway™ delivers the digestible fiber, stable forage quality, high energy, and persistence needed to support rumen health, milk production, and butterfat. As part of the NutriFiber™ family, Milkway™ helps dairy producers get more nutritional value from every acre. Find your nearest Barenbrug distributor or buy now online.

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