September 1, 2007
Features: Dairy and Forage Nutrition
Carbo-Loaded
High-sugar perennial ryegrasses are said to supply more energy to the rumen, converting more of the grass protein to meat and milk. High-sugar grasses...
Ration-Balancing Challenges
Because of $3.25-plus corn and despite high alfalfa hay prices, dairy producers will probably balance rations with more corn silage, high-quality hay...
Managing Monensin
Adding monensin sodium, also known as Rumensin, to a milking ration can cost you 2-4/cow/day. But it will raise energy-corrected milk yield by 8-12/day...
Portion Control
Lower feed costs, less manure and fewer over-conditioned heifers are the top reasons to consider limit feeding, says Pat Hoffman, a University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Friendlier Fiber
More than a few dairy producers have experimented with cutting corn silage hybrids higher than normal in an effort to improve digestibility...
Blending Bagged Haylage
Bill Deetz doesn't have enough bunker storage for the 2,500 tons of haylage he annually harvests for his 425-cow dairy near Sugar Creek, OH. So after filling a 1,000-ton bunker silo with first-cutting haylage...
Slow-Cooked Silage
Corn-silage quality is optimized if the crop remains in storage for three to four months before it's fed, say dairy nutritionists. Corn silage goes through four phases...
Bunker Management Leads Off Dairy Expo Forage Seminars
Bunker management and dairying in the biofuel age are two of six seminar topics to be discussed by forage experts from the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Kansas State University at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Oct...
Alfalfa Training Seminar To Be Held Nov. 13-15 In Idaho
Forage experts will share their knowledge on alfalfa growth and management at the Alfalfa Intensive Training Seminar...
Consistently Better
Matt Beckerink wants the silage for his high-producing dairy cows to be consistent, and alfalfa doesn't do well on some of his fields. That's the biggest...
Distillers Gains
If you've never fed distillers grains,high corn costs make this a good year to consider it, says David Schingoethe, South Dakota State University (SDSU)...
Profitable Partners
Chris Lamb says he gets good, low-cost replacement heifer gains with a silage mixture of corn and soybean forage. After the heifers are bred, in fact...
Tasty In Texas
Triticale, once labeled by some as a poor substitute for corn and other silages, is scoring high with Texas dairies. For David Hinders, Canyon, triticale...
Superior Silage
Dairy producers need to do a number of things just right to put the best feed into, and take the best feed out of, their bunker silos. Two Wisconsin dairy families work hard to do just that...
Hay Market Update
Hay Prices Keep Rising
As dairies search for high-quality hay to meet their wintertime needs, supplies get even tighter and prices keep rising. Prices are running at least $20...
Research In Brief
Wide Swaths Improve Drying, But Not Silage Quality
Laying alfalfa in wide vs. narrow swaths improved its drying rate but had little effect on silage quality in a University of Delaware study...
Late-Day Alfalfa Makes More Milk
Alfalfa is higher in total nonstructural carbohydrates (TNC) when cut in the afternoon vs. the morning, and produces more milk when fed to dairy cows....
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Research in Brief
The following items report on forage-related research recently presented by University experts at meetings across the country.
