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,...
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...
Battling Shrink With Enclosed Feed Storage
Keeping feed shrink to a minimum on a dairy is always sound strategy, but especially so when feed prices skyrocket (last year) or milk prices tank (this...
Dairy Rations Trend Away From Hay
The amount of alfalfa used in dairy-cow diets is declining, a trend Neal Martin would like to see reversed. Martin, director of the U.S. Dairy Forage...
Inoculants, Glycerin Combat Heat Stress
Bacterial inoculants, alone or in combination with glycerol, may improve milk production efficiency during periods of heat stress, say University of Georgia...
Safflower Seeds Work As Fat Supplement
High-fat, low-fiber safflower seeds worked well as a fat supplement for dairy cows in a study at Utah State University. A ration containing 56% forage...
Dry Matter Changes Can Be Costly
A one-day change in ration dry matter can have a big impact on milk production, say researchers at the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, WI....
Pleased With Pasture
Since early spring, Sean Mallet's herd at Nature's Harmony Organic Dairy has been grazing irrigated mixtures of ryegrass, clover and alfalfa. The cows...
Shaving Silage Downtime
A new silage facer with no moving parts is drawing strong interest from dairy producers looking to cut maintenance costs and headaches, says a partner...
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