So far in 2020, there have been many unknowns for the U.S. dairy industry. It’s hard to know what to predict for future milk markets and milk prices. However, one certainty for all dairy farm businesses is the need to know forage inventories and ensuring ample forage stocks are available for the entire herd for next year.

Often, when I visit a farm to troubleshoot an incident of poor transition cow performance, I hear the comment, “Things had been going so well until now. What might have changed with my anionic supplement?”