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Purina Animal Nutrition’s HeiferSmart is a new line of dairy heifer nutritional supplements that are cost-effective and reputed to help with healthy calf growth post-weaning.
The supplements offer a blend of vitamins and minerals that the company says helps heifers to maintain optimal metabolic functions by supporting overall immune system health.
Milk Products has announced the availability of the new elim-A-fly Add-Pack with ClariFly as an addition to the Sav-A-Caf product line.
Formulated specifically for pre-weaned calves, elim-A-fly is a daily, oral, feed-through fly-control solution that can be mixed with whole milk or a milk replacer.
It is very important to use elim-A-fly as part of a farm’s integrated fly control program.
DHI-Provo's EZweights is a platform scale program to track commodities coming across a scale or being delivered to an operation.
The program tracks deliveries, pickups, transfers, contracts, locations, brokers, haulers, trucks, drivers, owners, harvesters, fields and harvest information.
It is easily customizable to simplify the weigh-in/weigh-out process for truck drivers.
Fiscal year 2012 was excellent for Certified Hereford Beef (CHB) LLC, despite a challenging economy. CHB LLC posted a record year in volume at 47 million pounds sold – a 17.5 percent increase, and 2 million pounds higher than the previous record of 45 million pounds.
I feel the need to respond to the recent article entitled, “Inoculants: Insurance or strategy?” (Editor’s note: This article appeared in the July 1st, 2012 issue of Progressive Forage GrowerClick here to read).
I will preface my response by stating that as a trained microbiologist, I have spent 30 years with Pioneer Hi-Bred researching the lactic acid bacteria involved in silage fermentation.
The Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council (DCRC) is gearing up for its annual meeting, which will take place November 8-9 at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento, California.
Because successful reproductive management depends on many areas on the dairy, this year’s meeting will address topics that ultimately impact reproduction, including nutrition, herd management, animal welfare and technology.
Read the latest from several genetics companies and the changes to their genetic offerings and current lineups of dairy sires, following the release of the USDA dairy sire evaluations in August. Visit each company’s websites for complete listings of their sire lineups.
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As another forage production season comes to a close, many producers once again find themselves wondering if they will have enough feed on hand or be able to find and purchase what they are lacking.
Popular press and other media outlets are saturated with simple and very complex strategies on how to price a product or service. Yet they all start with four basic concepts:
The question was asked during a safety presentation “Do we still need to be concerned about silo gas if we only have bunker or pile silos?” Fair question and the answer is yes.
Let’s start with the basics of silage fermentation and the production of silo gas.
I feel the need to respond to the recent article entitled, “Inoculants: Insurance or strategy?” (Editor’s note: This article appeared in the July 1st, 2012 issue of Progressive Forage Grower 
