Dairy producers faced with dwindling supplies of forage and delayed planting and harvest situations may decide to increase the level of corn silage forage fed to lactating dairy cows.

BIGDairy JPC Farms Inc.
Mitchell, Ontario
155 milking cows
Jamie Beaumont, partnering owner and harvest manager
Murray Hutton, herd manager Name the top three areas you focus on during forage harvest.

Many dairy producers and custom choppers understand the significance of kernel-processing their corn silage. While planning for this fall’s corn silage harvest, it is good to examine why corn silage needs to be properly processed and to go through a checklist for preparing the silage harvester to ensure well-processed silage results.

Milking cows at Jeffrey Reijnen’s farm in St. Mary’s, Ontario, receive three different rations. All 155 cows receive the base ration, with fresh cow groups fed some additional ingredients.

Dairy producers and nutritionists understand the importance of providing adequate levels of nutrients in dairy cow rations. However, it is possible to provide too much of a good thing, which can lead to some undesirable consequences.

Inaccurate calcium levels in the blood around calving is one of the major precursors for a range of production and health problems of dairy cows.

Did you know that even if your farm is located in Canada or the northern U.S., heat stress will negatively impact your farm profitability?

The agricultural landscape has dramatically changed recently with volatile commodity prices, increasing land prices and very uncertain planting intentions for 2014 and beyond. All the while, alfalfa hay and haylage prices have remained strong. Because of this, we are starting to see some acres come back into the forage fold.