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Liquid feeds can be a valuable resource for dairy farms to include in their TMRs.
Common liquid feeds included in the TMR include water, molasses-based supplements and byproducts such as whey products.
When you drive onto a farm yard, the golden rule is to always park so that you do not have to back up. If at all possible, you want to always drive forward.
This is one of the first rules most companies will teach new employees that visit farms. Even before learning about products, margins and sales skills, employees are taught about safety. No company wants an employee to mistakenly back up over a favorite pet, or even worse, a small child.
A heifer is your future. Many farmers believe this to be true and have been committed to raising every heifer for their operation.
A lot of cash has been allocated to improve calf management, age at first calving, reproduction and genetics. But times are changing and heifer management will need to follow.
If you look at the last 90 years, we have increased the number of dairy heifers. In Figure 1 we can see that up to about 1960, the inventory of heifers above 500 lbs was about 20 to 25 percent of the cow herd.
