Mycotoxin survey: Watch out for exposure from dirty maize
84% of maize samples tested positive for DON. File picture. Picture: Andy Gibson.
If you're feeding maize, you likely have a mycotoxin problem on your farm, delegates at a recent ruminant nutrition were told.
Breaking down the results of this year's mycotoxin survey, Laura Quinn, Ruminant Technical Species Expert at DSM, said: "When plants get stressed - whether that be drought, weather-related or disease - they can be vulnerable to being attacked by fungi, and mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites which are released by the fungi.
