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How is this year’s corn silage feeding?

Making yourself aware of the impact of the growing environment each season through early sampling and testing is the first step to benchmarking silage annually and addressing those impacts.
January 20, 2026
Jim Smith

Understanding and implementing all the best management practices every season for producing high-quality corn silage that are under your control is critical. Making yourself aware of the impact of the growing environment each season through early sampling and testing is the first step. Benchmarking it annually and addressing those impacts with proven and cutting-edge technology will provide the consistency your herd thrives on and is critical to your bottom line. 


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Fibre first: Unlocking digestibility for resilient and profitable dairy herds

Forage quality is impacted in times of drought. Using feed additives, inoculants and alternative fibre sources are options for maintaining fibre digestibility in the rumen.
October 14, 2025
Jonathan Paré

Fibre digestibility plays a pivotal role in dairy cow nutrition, directly influencing dry matter intake (DMI), rumen health and milk production. The drought of 2025 intensified challenges in forage quality, particularly in Ontario and Quebec, prompting producers to explore innovative nutritional strategies.


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Making the most of fiber

Learn various strategies to make the most of dietary fiber to maximize production and health of dairy cows.
February 28, 2025
Tamilee Nennich Adolph

Maximizing fiber digestion is a multifaceted approach that begins with feeding high-quality forages, having excellent feeding management and taking advantage of various feeding technologies available. Utilizing these various approaches will help cows make the most of the fiber they consume.


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Managing forage ratios this spring: Benefits of supplementing with liquid molasses

Liquid molasses added to feed can assist in DMI and rumen health if you are stretching forages this spring.
May 8, 2023
Sydney Moore

Supplementing feed with liquid molasses is one way to improve the nutrient density and digestibility of feed for dairy cows.


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The importance of amino acid balance in early lactation

June 13, 2022
Essi Evans and Brittany Wood
The dairy feeding industry strives to optimize protein efficiency by formulating diets to meet amino acid requirements.
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Feed efficiency: The use of microbial fermentation systems

December 11, 2020
Kyle McKinney

When we consider the future of food and feeding the population, we also must consider the fact that we will have to produce more food in the next 30 years than we produced in the history of mankind.


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Help dairy cows beat the heat: Diet matters

July 15, 2020
Ananda Fontoura and Joseph W. McFadden
A daunting threat to dairy productivity moving forward is climate change. Science has demonstrated that our climate has changed over the past century. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that our climate will continue to change in the future and the dairy industry will adapt.
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The next step in corn silage hybrid evaluation: Fiber and starch yields

March 14, 2019
Michael Miller
In times of low milk prices, there is a need to reduce feed costs, and one way is to feed more homegrown forages. In order to feed a higher inclusion rate of forages, they need to be highly digestible, and this starts with seed selection.
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Exploring the relationship between physically effective and undigested fiber

March 13, 2019
Rick Grant and Wyatt Smith
Recent research at Miner Institute has focused on the relationship between undigested and physically effective NDF (abbreviated as uNDF and peNDF).
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