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Bill Powel-Smith

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Forage digestibility – NDFd and uNDF – with corn silage hybrids

September 29, 2017
Bill Powel-Smith
When selecting corn hybrids, dairy farmers often consider a variety of factors that play a role in the nutritional quality for dairy rations. Today’s corn silage hybrids offer high yield potential but can vary substantially in nutritional quality depending on genetics and environmental factors.
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Inoculants: The dairy farmer’s dilemma

May 6, 2015
Bill Powel-Smith
Every inoculant comes with a salesperson who professes how great their product works and how much their inoculant will save the producer money by reducing shrink and preserving feed quality. In response, the producer mutters, “I wish there was a way to tell if it’s really working. How do I know if your inoculant, or anyone else’s, is doing anything?”
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Cows at the feed bunk

Are you harvesting what you really want in your ration?

August 29, 2014
Bill Powel-Smith
Today’s dairy rations increasingly rely on corn silage as the primary forage in diet formulations.
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