Articles Tagged with ''legacy''

Conference focuses on automation, data collection decisions

July 19, 2013
Karen Lee
As more and more technologies are introduced to the dairy industry, researchers, allied industry and producers are learning whether or not they are a good fit. The first-ever U.S. Precision Dairy Conference and Expo served as a meeting place to discuss many of these new technologies. Here are highlights from the conference held recently in Rochester, Minnesota.
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Lessons in silage management

July 19, 2013
Megan Pierce
Peter Van Warmerdam of Van Warmerdam Dairy farms 800 acres in central California with his brothers, Leo and Benny. This operation puts up more than 12,000 tons of corn silage each year to feed its 1,100 cows.
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Forage strategies to live by

July 19, 2013
David C. Weakley
Approximately four to five years ago, we saw a steep change in the ingredient markets. Feed prices, particularly corn, skyrocketed. The whole cost structure of operating a dairy jumped without a corresponding increase in milk prices. The impact of these changes continues to play out today.
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Instantaneous feeding decisions make dairies more productive

July 19, 2013
Joe Dysart
This article was #14 of the Top 25 most well-read articles on www.progressivedairy.com in 2013. It was published in the July 21, 2013 print issue. Click here for the full list of the Top 25. This article explored a sampling of mobile-friendly feed rationing software. Several nutritionists and company representatives shared how the software has changed how they do business. We asked those interviewed, Q. If you could snap your fingers and make it happen, what is a feature you would add to feed rationing software?
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Getting more ration value from commodity, byproduct feeds

July 19, 2013
John Goeser
What if there is more protein in your canola meal or soybean meal than you think? An average high-cow ration is around 50 percent forage and 50 percent commodity feed. As nutritionists, we tend to focus on regularly measuring and understanding forage feed value (nutrient content and digestibility).
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Getting started: Forage yield vs. forage usage

July 19, 2013
Sarah Daugherty
The 2012 growing season was rightly declared a disaster, creating extremely tight forage inventories for many dairies. We spent last winter monitoring the piles, bunkers and bags of feed in hopes of an early spring. Unfortunately, in many areas, a wet spring has caused delays both in harvesting first-crop haylage and in getting corn planted.
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Making milk with a quality hay crop

July 19, 2013
John Hibma
It’s well known that dairy cow diets require forages in order for the rumen to function properly. Rumen microbial fermentation must occur, for the most part, in the presence of complex carbohydrates such as cellulose, hemicellulose and pectins.
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