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...
Profitable Partners
Chris Lamb says he gets good, low-cost replacement heifer gains with a silage mixture of corn and soybean forage. After the heifers are bred, in fact...
Production Costs Spur Dairy Herd Reductions
Hay growers targeting the dairy market may be interested in the results of a recent Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) study indicating most of the 333 ...
Cow Numbers, Milk Production, Higher Than Last Year's
The number of milk cows on farms in the 23 major states was 8.28 million head in April, 39,000 more than in April 2006, but 6,000 head less than in March 2007. Production per cow was ...
More From Less
When their Florida dairy partnership dissolved, it seemed like the right time for Al and Desiree Wehner to shed the stress of milking 1,100 cows, managing...
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