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Grain overload and the resulting need for treatment

Maintaining good health through good nutritional management, vaccinations and proper injection protocols in your herds will support the animals to be efficient in developing a high-quality product for our consumers.

April 25, 2022

Sawyer Fonnesbeck

Cattle producers are invested in creating a quality product. Carcass grades, such as Prime or Choice, and high-yield grades have become attainable targets for producers to reach with good genetics, management, proper nutrition and health protocols.

Changing traditional practices to preserve traditional values

There is always room for improvement and, if you’re willing to make that a mantra for your operation, you can only get better from here.

April 25, 2022

Dusty Abney

I don’t know many people who are giddy about change, but the people I know who seek out positive change are highly successful. Like it or not, it’s the new constant in everything we do.

The many factors influencing cow weight

April 13, 2022

Jason Smith

Cow weight has become an incredibly popular topic of conversation. It is not uncommon to hear discussion of how “efficient” a cow herd is because it is made up of lightweight cows.

Interpreting details of feed analysis reports

April 4, 2022

Anita Heeg

Over the last 25 years, animal production has improved significantly to have more milk and meat production per animal. To support our ability to feed and manage modern animals, technology to better analyze feed ingredients has also changed to keep up with production.

Hay … don’t forget about me

April 4, 2022

Florence G. Larochelle and Yasmin Schuermann

In the last decade, there has been a trend toward adding straw to nutritional programs as a strategy to manage energy density, increase rumen fill, slow the rate of passage of feed from the rumen or increase the level of effective fibre for enhanced rumination.

Don’t let feed shrinkage impact your bottom line

April 4, 2022

Kristin Thompson

When evaluating the influencers of profitability on dairy farms, the cost of feed is typically at the top of the list for large expenditures. However, when evaluating feed costs, it is important to not overlook feed losses, which are often termed “shrink.”

Managing for animal performance in a grass-finished program

March 23, 2022

Bruce B. Carpenter

Cattle will gain weight when nutrient intake meets metabolic requirements for a targeted average daily gain (ADG). This is true regardless of the feeding method, whether in a feedyard with grain and roughage or in a pasture with forage only.

The economic costs of ration sorting

March 11, 2022

Casey Havekes and Sydney Moore

The consequences of feed sorting on cow health and production have been well documented within the industry. Cows often sort in favour of smaller grain components, as these are typically the most palatable, and sort against the longer, bulkier forage components.

3 considerations for mineral supplementation during grazing

February 22, 2022

Jordan L. O’Neill

Forty years ago, it was far less common to provide a complete mineral supplement, yet cattle survived. True, they got by, but is “getting by” good enough?

Formulating dairy diets to reduce greenhouse gas

January 18, 2022

Charles Qin and Brittany Wood

Methane is the second-leading driver of climate change, having contributed 0.5 degree of the 1.1 degrees of human-induced warming since pre-industrial times, according to the latest assessment by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Grain overload and the resulting need for treatment

Changing traditional practices to preserve traditional values

The many factors influencing cow weight

Interpreting details of feed analysis reports

Hay … don’t forget about me

Don’t let feed shrinkage impact your bottom line

Managing for animal performance in a grass-finished program

The economic costs of ration sorting

3 considerations for mineral supplementation during grazing

Formulating dairy diets to reduce greenhouse gas

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