Dairy/Forage Nutrition Archive
GPS Collars Track Cattle On Range
In 1981, Doug Johnson began studying the way grazing animals move around their pastures. Twenty years later, he added a new twist. We started using GPS...
Diet Corn Silage
Boosting corn silage levels in rations has proved to be a great strategy for pushing dairy heifer weights at calving to 1,300 lbs or more and age at first...
Dry Distillers Grains Raise Digestibility, Feed Intake
Feeding a dry distillers grains supplement with smooth bromegrass increased total dry matter digestibility and feed intake, according to Iowa State University researchers...
Nitrogen Helps Make Bermudagrass More Digestible
Nitrogen fertilizer can increase bermudagrass digestibility, according to a study by researchers at the USDA-ARS Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Tifton, GA...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
