Q&A with Amlan’s President: How can dairy farmers mitigate the effects of mycotoxins? How do mycotoxins impact the dairy herd? In the young dairy animals, mycotoxins can impact growth, rates of feed conversion and efficiency of the diet. Certainly, mycotoxins impact milk production and maximizing milk production is critical to our dairy producers, and milk component yield is also important. Mycotoxins seem tricky – different mycotoxins seem to pop up year to year?