Rationing Straw
Adding straw to dairy rations may help or hurt your herd's milk production. That's according to several dairy nutrition experts who have studied what's...
Second Corn Harvest
When Randy Shaver fields questions from dairy producers about ensiled cornstalks, he often refers them to the Koepke family. There's a real interest in...
Stretching Supplies
A dairy heifer diet of wet distillers' grains and cornstalks, straw or low-quality hay could stretch forage supplies this winter, suggests Alvaro Garcia,...
Texas Dairies Want Small-Grain Silage
Texas Panhandle dairymen are looking for growers to produce wheat or triticale silage, say two Texas Cooperative Exten-sion specialists....
New Test Measures Starch Digestibility
A new laboratory test measures the amount of starch that rumen fluid digests in 12 hours. The test can be used to analyze samples of corn silage, high-moisture...
Non-Forage Fiber May Depress Fat
Forages may promote better rumen function than non-forage fiber sources such as distillers' grain. In a South Dakota State University study, cows were...
Preservative May Aid Wet Distillers' Grain
Treating wet distillers' grain with a preservative improved intake but not milk production in a South Dakota State University experiment. The trial compared...
Proceed With Caution
If you have silage from a drought-stressed corn crop, you don't have to feed less of it, says Mike Hutjens. Producers who have large inventories of drought-stressed...
Biogas power faces hurdles
Dennis Haubenschild's tale of how he began generating electricity with biogas from his Princeton, MN, dairy farm and his roller-coaster relationship with...
Scoring Forages
How do your forages rate nutritionally? Mike Hutjens, University of Illinois extension dairy nutritionist, has developed a simple scoring system to help...
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