Dairy/Forage Nutrition Archive
October Prices: Hay Down, Milk Up, With More Herd Cuts
Although hay prices have lost more ground the past month, dairy prices are starting to show some improvement – which may give hay growers hope for the same...
Extreme Grazeover
For cow-calf producer Terry Gompert, the role of cattle extends well beyond beef production. The animals are part of a holistic pasture management system,...
A Shot Of Sweetness: Nutrition Injection System Makes Poor Hay Palatable
Southern dairy and beef cattle producers with low- to medium-quality round bales of hay can increase its palatability and possibly its nutritive value...
It’s Time To Help The Dairy Industry, CAFA Executive Director Says
The timing is critical to get help for the ag industry – and dairy producers in particular, argues Aaron Kiess, executive director of the California Alfalfa & Forage Association...
Livestock Forage Disaster Payments Start
Disaster payments for forage losses due to severe drought are being distributed to ranchers who qualified for the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)...
New York Dairyman Wins World's Forage Superbowl
David Dickey of Southtown Dairy Farm, South New Berlin, NY, was named overall grand champion in the 26th-annual World's Forage Analysis Superbowl during a luncheon held yesterday – Wednesday, Sept. 30 – at World Dairy Expo in Madison, WI ...
Oxygen-Stopping Silage-Covering Systems Work
Oxygen-barrier films used to cover stored silage can improve dry matter recovery at the top and near bunker walls by as much as 15 percentage units. So says Rich Muck, a U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center researcher in Madison, WI...
Packing At High Silage Densities
Doing a bang-up job of packing haylage going onto storage piles to maintain forage quality and prevent dry matter losses is a top-tier priority at 2,800-cow Dairy Dreams, LLC, near Casco, WI...
Stomp Out Laminitis With Forages
Mike Hutjens is troubled by the growing number of lame cows he sees during dairy visits. Lameness, usually caused by laminitis, is on the rise and costing...
Dairy Ration Rules
With a nod to the popularity of David Letterman's nightly Top 10 List, Normand St-Pierre developed one of his own, but with a dairy nutrition twist. St-Pierre,...
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