The use of a fungicide on silage corn has been a topic of debate in areas where leaf disease pressure has been higher over the past few years. Diseases in corn, such as northern corn leaf blight, grey leaf spot, anthracnose stalk rot and Gibberella ear rot, have the potential to cause a significant decrease in quality and yield.

Rumination, the cow’s ability to turn food over and over in the stomach in order to digest it, is by far one of the most telling signals the animal has in conveying health status and well-being.

When low milk prices or high ingredient prices occur, dairy producers look to save money any way they can. Feeding more homegrown forage and fewer purchased ingredients is an available option.

The quality of the 2015 corn silage crop should be a concern for dairy producers on both sides of the border, according to the latest results from Alltech’s North America Harvest Analysis.

Mycotoxins represent a significant cost to animal health, which inevitably impacts profitable production of your herd. Smart nutrition and understanding your field and forage will help optimize herd health and reduce the impact of mycotoxins.

With the rapid proliferation of robotic milking farms across Canada in the last few years, many producers new to robotic milking are coming to realize the many differences between milking cows with robots and the more conventional milking systems.

As the harvest season is complete and winter is arriving, nutritionists and producers alike are busy evaluating corn silage quality results and silage inventories for 2015.