Snaplage in the dairy ration
Feeding snaplage/earlage has advantages and disadvantages. Producers must carefully evaluate their feeding situations and decide if snaplage is a good fit for their operation.
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Dairy producers – Get your water tested!
Water is the single most important nutrient for dairy cows.
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Mycotoxin contamination: Effects on dairy production
Solutions to mycotoxin issues will be the topic of a South Dakota State University Extension seminar on Nov. 7.
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Advice on feeding corn stalks to dry cows and heifers
General recommendations are to feed corn stalks to dry cows and heifers up to 33 percent of the forage content of the diet.
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Advice on feeding corn stalks to lactating cows
Corn stalks can be used sparingly in lactation diets, but you need to use caution.
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Dairy Focus: Shrink feed shrinkage
Feed costs represent the largest single expense on most dairies. Feed shrink can represent from 5 to 15 percent of the total feed cost on a dairy.
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Track transition cow performance
This upcoming webinar will teach you how to track performance of transition and early-lactation cows and use that information to diagnose problems in your nutrition program.
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Factors to consider when using by-products
Mineral content, fiber level and moisture are some of the main nutritional factors to examine before using by-product feeds in dairy diets.
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5 mycotoxin management tips
Due to this year’s ominous drought, many producers are now faced with the challenge of how to feed the 2012 corn and soybean crops to their livestock.
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Scientists map the barley genome
In a major advance that will unlock the benefits of the mapping of the barley genome — one of the world's most important cereal crops — work conducted and supported by the USDA in collaboration with researchers around the world has resulted in the most advanced sequencing of the barley genome to date.
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Be aware of aflatoxin in corn grain, silage
Heat and drought over the summer months created an ideal environment for Aspergillus ear rot to form in corn grain and silage. The disease is caused by a fungus that may produce aflatoxin, which can be harmful to livestock.
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- Corn and soybean prices continue to retrace 2012 drought rally
- Ag markets generally mixed to start this week
- USDA announces Conservation Reserve Program sign-up
- South Dakota State University dairy faculty works With USAID
- What are the drivers of profit in your dairy herd?
- Fire kills 17 calves at Idaho farm
