Welcome to the Nutrition Resource Center, your online source for information on ration management, feed ingredients and prices, transition-cow nutrition, and tips for feeding in hot weather.

Latest Nutrition Postings:

Dairy management decision-making tools (Feed cost; Reproduction)
Free decision-making tools cover feeding, heifers and reproduction to production, replacement, finances, environment, and price risk.

Alfalfa becomes a biofuel option (Feed Cost)
Scientists think new varieties could provide both animal feed and fuel.

Analyze hay-storage cost (Feed Cost; Ration & Feed Bunk)
New tool helps you compare the cost of different hay-storage options.

Advice for late-summer forage crop seeding (Feed Cost; Ration & Feed Bunk)
Use these recommendations to improve your odds of success.

Fight Johne’s disease with chlorine and stainless steel (Health)
ARS research shows that you can potentially reduce bacterial survival on farm.

Evaluate your feed cost and consumption (Feed cost)
New tool enables you and your advisors to better estimate feed cost and consumption for your herd.

Hone your feeding economics (Feed cost)
Seek to answer, “When does a savings represent a sacrifice?”

Survey: Amino acid balancing very important (Lactating Cow; Dry Cow; Nutrition; Ration & Feed Bunk)
Despite current economic challenges, the number of people expressing interest in balancing their rations for amino acids remains strong, according to a recent survey.

Beware of rain effects on hay (Ration & Feed Bunk)
If you’re managing around “chance of showers” weather, you need to take into account these different effects of rainfall on hay

Spraying milk on fields reportedly improves grass (Ration & Feed Bunk)
Nebraska dairy farmer says his milk-fed land yielded 1,100 more pounds of grass per acre than untreated land.