“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.” This quote was one that hung on my bulletin board in college as I studied animal science, preparing to enter the world of dairy cattle nutrition.

Feed software programs have recently become more widely implemented and are utilized to gather and evaluate a tremendous amount of feeding-related information.

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.