Feed Management
Producers should ask themselves and their nutritionists how to be more efficient and handle supply chain disruptions given the present state of milk prices, supply chain issues and lower forage inventories.
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A better way than crude fiber
Distinguishing between neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber can better predict how forages change nutritionally as they grow and mature.
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Feeding Mother Nature’s curveballs
Identifying and understanding feed variability and doing what you can to manage for it is key to keeping cows healthy and performing consistently at a high level.
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Feedbunk management: Access to uniformly mixed feed 24 hours a day
Marginal milk opportunity can be found in perfectly formulated rations with stable forages adjusted for dry matter and 1% refusals.
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Feed efficiency and sustainability pivot on carbon management
Residual feed intake helps identify a measure of feed efficiency. The ration is balanced to animals in certain stages of lactation and determines how cows fed the diet should produce at a certain level.
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Inflammation: A problem worth managing in dairy cows?
High-producing cows are the result of less stress and less inflammation. Minimize the degree of inflammation by implementing sound management practices.
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The new dairy NRC: New thoughts on dairy nutrition
A review of the more significant changes to dry matter intake, amino acids, protein, energy, minerals and vitamins in the new dairy NRC.
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Chop talk: The importance of forage particle size in the diet
Minimizing the amount of forage particles retained on the top sieve of the Penn State Particle Separator is a good strategy for promoting desirable feeding behaviors and maximizing dry matter intake.
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