I grew up in a village of 14,000 people in the southwest of England. It was a community surrounded by dairy farms, sheep and pig farms, and rapeseed crops; it also had a slaughterhouse in the centre of the town. My family was involved in many aspects of the livestock and dairy industry, and I even delivered milk to the residents as my first job.

Mycotoxins creep into many producer discussions with their nutritionists and veterinarians. They are very complex, and a lot is still unknown about them. Hopefully, this article will help shed some light on the source and potential implications of the various mycotoxins you could discover on your dairy operation.

Supplemental fat continues to be a practical means of sustaining energy intake in high-producing cows. However, the economic success of using supplemental fat depends not only on proper selection of fat sources but also on knowing how much fat to feed and when to feed it.

Most of us like to think of ourselves as agents of change, right? Isn’t that the “right” answer, the way we want people to see us?

One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. A lot of people refer to the inevitable byproduct of poultry production as the black plague, but if one wants to build soil fertility on the cheap, poultry litter is black gold. The wise would say it has its advantages and its disadvantages, and one would do well to know about each.