With a growing dairy industry comes the need for individual dairies to closely monitor their feed inventories to ensure enough feed is available. This can be a bit of a guessing game, and intakes will greatly influence the rate of consumption.

Mycotoxins are a regular concern for producers, as they influence feed quality and animal safety. They are produced by certain species of moulds and can have toxic properties that impact ruminant health and performance.

2017 will go down in the books for its unique rainfall pattern. As a whole, most farmers in Ontario experienced a wet spring. Come summer, the tap turned off in some areas, and the sink overflowed in others.

Converting to automated milking requires nutritional adjustments on several fronts, including what cows are fed, how feed is delivered and even where it’s consumed. Three dairy producers shared the systems they find to be successful during the 2017 Lely North America FMS Conference held in Fair Oaks, Indiana.

A significant challenge for dairy producers is how to maintain a consistent delivery of TMR to the lactating herd.

Forage harvest and quality can be like a wedding. This may seem comical at first read, but stick with me and understand how. With both harvest and a wedding, we start with great expectations, but in some cases those expectations are not met.