Articles Tagged with ''dry matter intake (DMI)''
Take me out with the crowd. Give me some pellets, it’s a great snack. I don’t care if I never get back.
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Preparations for bunk stability
To keep your animals healthy, start evaluating your current ration and wet forages and make summer plans now to help forecast feed stability issues before the seasonal heat arrives.
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Prebiotic tools and supplement needs during breeding and spring turnout
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but is it providing quite enough nutritional value to your cow herd? Prebiotic supplements can help cattle utilize available feed to its fullest potential.
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Everything you never wanted to know about cow manure
Using manure condition, consistency and contents can inform upstream nutrition and management decisions to drive productive efficiency on the dairy.
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Canola meal research roundup
Canola meal research continues to look at increasing DMI, milk yield and sustainability.
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Preparing for the upcoming calving season
Keeping a finger on the pulse of your cow herd’s needs in the weeks prior to calving will pay big dividends when calves start hitting the ground.
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It may not seem like much
By delaying grazing slightly in early spring so the grass grows taller and increases its DM percentage by a modest 20%, we boost the amount of energy available for lactation by 34%.
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Supplementing less-than-ideal forages
While no two ranches will have identical feed and supplementation plans, each should contain one vital component: flexibility. This will help your cow herd maintain good health, regardless of changes in forage quality.
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KPI alphabet soup: Defining acronyms of high-performance dairies
Four KPIs that have considerable impact on dairy productivity and profitability are income over feed cost, dollars per pound of dry matter, energy-corrected milk efficiency and money-corrected milk.
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Managing and feeding haylages with butyric acid fermentations
Anticipating butyric acid fermentation can help producers address silage quality issues and performance setbacks before their bottom line is affected.
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