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Calves & Heifers

Top four nutritional strategies for early calving

Gene Boomer
March 11, 2019
Raising replacement heifers is one of the largest investments made on a dairy. The costs associated with heifer raising can represent up to 20 percent of milk production costs, making this line item the second- or third-largest expense for an operation, after feed and possibly labor.

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