Feed & Nutrition

Advances in forage quality should translate into improved farm income. Forage quality is synonymous with improved fiber digestibility (NDFd).

Corn silage harvest is arguably the most critical time of the year for a dairy’s future productivity and profitability. In a period of a few weeks, nine to 14 months of feed inventory is created.

Feeding a dairy cow’s rumen is as complicated and complex as feeding the world’s billions of people in a sustainable, efficient and environmentally friendly way.

Recently, on an online forum, someone asked how much nitrogen everyone was applying on their triticale fields to get an idea of what application rate to use.

From growing, storing and feeding, silage is a big investment of time and money for producers, year after year. Up to 60 percent of the average farm’s expenses are feed-related.

Around the world, billions of pounds of corn are planted and grown for the purpose of feeding livestock. For many dairy farmers, corn (coming from both grain and silage) supplies a significant amount of calories in milk cow and heifer diets.