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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).
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.
Global population is increasing exponentially. There will be billions of new mouths to feed. And the world’s natural resources, including soil and water, just won’t be able to keep up with this new demand.
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.
The article details how the beets were grown and processed, and nutritionists weighed in with their estimates on yield and how they expected the beets to perform in the ration as compared to silage.
This article was #22 of the Top 25 most well-read articles on www.progressivedairy.com in 2013. It was published in the July 11, 2013 Extra e-newsletter.
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The Four State Dairy Nutrition Conference held in Iowa in June 2013 featured a panel discussion on low-protein feeding. Wisconsin dairyman John Koepke, Cornell University’s Mike Van Amburgh, Nutritional Professional Inc.’s Steve Woodford and Purina Animal Nutrition’s Dave LaCount provided tips for making this feed strategy work.
Boosting overall wellness and immune function as well as improving feed efficiency are the goals at Liberty Dairy in the Pacific Northwest. Amino acid balancing in the dairy’s milking ration is a critical part of achieving them.
Effective communication between a dairy herd’s advisers can greatly enhance its performance.
The herd veterinarian and nutritionist are usually both key individuals that have a vested interest in a dairy’s success, and making sure they are both working together as effective team members to evaluate current programs and set new goals is a mark of most successful dairies.
Formulating modern dairy cow diets has become much more complex in recent years. In order that high-producing milk cow rations can meet a host of nutritional requirements, computerized ration modeling programs have become a necessity.
Many of us have heard the suggestions to use direct-fed microbials (DFM) supplements, also known as probiotics, on calves soon after birth. There is a good reason for this suggestion.
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