Growing and feeding high-oleic soybeans is a rapidly evolving opportunity for today’s dairy farms. As high-oleic soybeans gain more attention and adoption in the industry, consider how they may find a place on your farm.

Dried distillers grains are not just industrial residues. Their unique composition, low in starch but rich in fiber, protein and yeast-derived bioactive, positions them as promising candidates for functional postbiotic foods.

As roasted high-oleic soybeans gain more attention and adoption in the industry, consider how they may find a place on your farm. With an automated milking system, the producer has a unique opportunity to embrace the technology in their system. 

For many dairies, use of premixes is nothing new and they have been used in some fashion since dairying began. In many cases, however, because the practice is so common, we may tend to forget these are tools in our feeding programs that need to be reevaluated from time to time.

Last fall, when cottonseed prices kept shooting higher, dairy producers were pulling the ingredient out of their rations or reducing their inclusion rates. However, prices have since come back down to the same price as seen last spring in 2022.

One feed ingredient that's easy to spot is cottonseed. From a visual perspective, whole cottonseed is an intriguing ingredient. The nutritional attributes are similarly interesting.