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Herbicide restrictions may prohibit their use as feed.

Aflatoxin is a known carcinogen for both humans and livestock. The Food and Drug Administration prohibits the sale of milk with more than 0.5 parts per billion.

Feeding yeast culture led to an average increase of 3.5 lb./cow/day of fat-corrected milk and 3.6 lb./cow/day of energy-corrected milk.

Canola is a viable replacement for soybean meal, cottonseed meal, distillers grains or other protein supplements.

Soy Best PEARL can be used as an alternative to blood meal in dairy rations.

South Dakota Extension's iGrow program has created a free mobile app for livestock producers to use when comparing the cost and nutritional value of feed.

The new headquarters, high atop a hill in southern Cedar Rapids, is symbolic after record flooding through the city’s downtown filled the first floor of Diamond V’s offices in 2008.

The special harvest ends August 10 for prairie grasses and August 30 for cool season grasses.

Keep an eye on the crop – especially data from the August and September USDA reports--and consider that 2013 is poised to offer little reprieve.

Weigh the potential crop yield versus your need for forage.

Knowing the rumen degradable starch content might provide the opportunity to look at a cehaper byproduct ingredient that offers starch.

Harvesting drought-stressed corn silage will take extra testing for moisture and nitrates.

New ration software does not require the excessive manual ‘tweaking’ so common with modeling software, thus eliminating hassles and saving time.

If it’s harvested, ensiled and fed correctly, drought-stressed corn silage can have up to 70% of the feed value of normal.

Do not feed corn silage as green chop if drought stressed. Crop may be high in nitrates and cause abortions and death in cattle.

If you’re planning to take five cuts this summer, allow two of those cuttings to go to first flower.

The expanded Constituent Sensing capabilities will be able to predict crude protein, starch and fiber.

18-point checklist to keep cows eating during bouts of hot weather.

The suit began in late 2004, when a Louisia farmer alleged that Cargill had switched feed ingredients in a customized dairy feed.

Cow numbers were down 4,000 head from April, however.

$1.8 million effort will work to eliminate hunger and promote healthy food choices.

The new $3 million facility will manufacture the company’s encapsulated lysine, marketed under the name LysiPEARLTM.

Led partly by a drop in dairy product prices, international food price index is lowest since September 2011.

GOT MILK? and Dairy Council of California share “Milk 101” for National Dairy Month.

Lely introduces a robotic TMR mixer/feeder/pusher all-in-one, hands-free robotic machine.

Grazing can be a viable system for new dairy operations.

Recent research indicates that the lysine availability of AminoShure-L is lower than originally projected.

Harvesting decisions and practices can have a profound effect on the feeding value of the crop.

Consequences of increased respiration rates and sweating are rapid dehydration, reduced feed intake, a weaker immune system and the internal body temperature of the calf rises – which is never good.

In a trial utilizing four pens of about 320 cows each, UC-Davis graduate student Nadia Swanepoel fed four levels of canola meal.

Monitor these key areas to verify how your cows are responding to their feeding program.

California dairy puts more emphasis on high-quality corn silage.

What matters in one of your team’s most valuable members.

Save dollars and the environment.

From this location, QLF will service primarily the states of Texas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Utah.

Transitioning to WarmFront™ calf milk replacer in warmer weather results in greater feed efficiency and bottom line potential.

An average ROI of 3.35:1 was reported in a 10-herd Wisconsin study.

The world’s leading dairy exporter will focus more tightly on emerging markets and products that meet growing consumer demand for dairy nutrition.

Many dairy herds have the potential to lower ration crude protein levels by at least 0.5 to 1.0 unit without impacting herd milk production.

This is an opportunity to place a renewed emphasis on highlighting the importance and value of American-made dairy foods.

We should shift some of our attention from total fat to the composition of fatty acids in milk.

First cutting of supreme dairy hay in several Western states will fall to the $210-$270/ton range.

Special attention to buying, storing and feeding your hay is essential for maximum bang for your buck.

Growth rate during the first 50 days can have a benefit of as much as 1,500 to 2,000 lb. of additional milk production during the first lactation.

The N-Box allows real-time analysis rather than waiting two days for samples to be shipped and run at a far-off lab.

Findings highlight the industry’s efforts to provide innovative products that meet children’s taste requirements, while satisfying increasingly stringent school nutrition guidelines.

The updated nutrition standards require that low-fat or fat-free milk remain a part of every school meal.

New standards will improve the health and wellbeing of 32 million kids nationwide.