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Kathleen Emery

Kathleen Emery

Emery is a dairy veterinarian and practiced in Wisconsin for 11 years. Dr. Emery  completed a Food Animal Production Medicine Residency at the UW-SVM in 2002.  Since 2006, she has been employed by Dow AgroSciences providing technical nutritional support for the silage business in Wisconsin and Iowa.

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BMR corn silage helps cows reach higher peak milk

February 6, 2014
Kathleen Emery
Reaching high peak milk production is key to a successful lactation. Each 1-pound increase in peak milk translates into 213 to 304 pounds more milk throughout the entire lactation. Unfortunately, a cow’s inability to increase dry matter intake during the first weeks after calving can prevent the cow from reaching high peak milk production. The challenge is even greater when rations contain high levels of forage that is not easy to digest.
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CornPicker 101: Use your own data for silage hybrid selection

February 11, 2013
Kathleen Emery
It used to be so easy. We didn’t decide whether fields would be harvested for corn grain or silage until the end of the season. Usually the worst-looking corn was taken for silage. In the past, there was very little data on corn silage quality or performance, and hybrids were chosen based on grain yield. Until recently, we ignored the nutrient qualities of our corn silage hybrids.
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CornPicker 101: Use your own data for silage hybrid selection

December 31, 2012
Kathleen Emery

It used to be so easy. We didn’t decide whether fields would be harvested for corn grain or silage until the end of the season. Usually the worst-looking corn was taken for silage.

In the past, there was very little data on corn silage quality or performance, and hybrids were chosen based on grain yield. Until recently, we ignored the nutrient qualities of our corn silage hybrids.

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Maximize your forage testing dollars

October 11, 2011
Kathleen Emery
How important is it to know your forage quality? Forage quality directly affects milk production and, therefore, your bottom line. The higher the quality of your forage, the more forage you can feed, supporting higher milk production and eliminating the need to purchase supplemental fiber.
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