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Optimizing your resources to increase profitability

October 23, 2020

Dusty Abney, Wesley Moore, and Anna Taylor

One goal of any business is to be profitable. It is difficult to assess the profitability of a business without reasonable estimates of income over expenses.

How expensive is too expensive for your mineral program?

September 24, 2020

Stephen B. Blezinger

Every cattle operation has a mineral program, whether they realize it or not.

Reduce the feed bill with year-round grazing

August 31, 2020

Robert Fears

Failure to control the feed bill can erode ranch profits very quickly, even to the point of bankruptcy. The most economical feed is normally forage standing in the pasture.

Fine-tuning IOFC in a robotic milking system

August 10, 2020

Lizzy French

“My feed bill is too high. How can I cut my feed costs?” As nutritionists, it’s a question we hear often. And, on dairies with robots, it’s no different.

How precise is your nutrition program?

August 7, 2020

Jay Giesy

The goal of precision nutrition is to formulate rations that support the nutritional needs of the herd and the financial needs of the business as closely as possible.

Cocktails for the win: Creative ways to stretch your dairy forages

March 17, 2020

Melissa Hart

In the wake of difficult growing conditions that plagued the Midwest in 2019, stretching feed with creative forage solutions was the topic discussed by dairy producer and forage consultant Daniel Olson of Lena, Wisconsin, and dairy producer David Johnson of the Western Upper Peninsula at the recent Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference in Frankenmuth, Michigan.

Creep feeding: Do I really need to?

June 24, 2019

Heidi Doering-Resch

It’s late summer, we’ve experienced a wet spring and moderate rainfall in the summer, grass finally seems to be adequate, and we have plenty of pasture space available for our pairs. I’ll be taking my pairs to stalks late fall based on how this weather pattern looks, and I’m sitting horseback wondering if I really need to creep feed this year.

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