September 1, 2009
Hay Market Update
Dairy Hay Bargains Abound
Dairy producers looking for hay should be able to find what they need at reasonable prices. The lowest prices in USDA's reporting network are in Iowa,...
Features
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...
More Grass, More Milk
Helping cows stay healthy is goal No. 1 at the Lardinois dairy near Pulaski, WI. Feeding more grass and less alfalfa in the dairy's total mixed ration...
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...
Balancing Rations In A Down Market
Low milk prices have forced many dairy producers to cut feed costs at the expense of balanced rations, says Bill Sanchez, a technical services director...
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...
Research In Brief
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....
Unique Inoculant Does Well In Tests
An inoculant developed using sulfur-oxidizing rhizobacteria with Rhizobium can enhance seed emergence, increase biomass and increase nodule numbers on...
Feed 50-50 Clover And Corn Silage
When red clover silage and corn silage are fed together, a 50-50 mixture is optimal, say researchers at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and...
BMR Sorghum Boosts Intake, Not Production
Cows fed brown midrib (BMR) sorghum silage in a University of Nebraska study had slightly higher dry matter intakes than cows fed conventional sorghum,...
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...
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Product Review
Ag-Utility Tractors Kubota introduces four new models to its M-Series mid-size ag-utility tractor line. The M100X, M110X, M126X and M135X have 97.7, 107.5,...
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...
Industry News
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...
Forage Seminars Run The Gamut At World Dairy Expo, Sept. 29-Oct. 3
Reducing phosphorus, evaluating the merits of custom harvesting, and methods of pricing standing hay and corn silage will be some...
New Forage Contest Set For World Ag Expo
Forage growers from 11 Western states are invited to compete in a new forage quality contest to be held in conjunction with the Feb. 9-11 World Ag Expo...
Edible Bunker Cover Idea Still Palatable
Long-term research aimed at eliminating the need to cover bunker silos with plastic and tires has been put on hold. Animal scientist Larry Berger started...
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,...
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...
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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.
