Mustard bran shows promise

University of Minnesota researchers at Crookston say mustard bran is an affordable substitute for soybean meal.

Researchers replaced some of the soybean meal and all of the beet pulp in a lactating-cow diet with mustard bran. The result was an increase of about 4 pounds of milk per cow per day. Mustard bran in the diet did not change feed intake, milk composition or milk flavor.

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