Dairy Nutrition
Americans are seeing a once-in-a-generation price spikes at the grocery store. The picture is mixed when looking at how Inflation has affected dairy in comparison to other food products.
The Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty has provided additional stimulus for SNAP participants to buy healthy fluid milk by incorporating an innovative Add Milk! Program into select ShopRite stores in New Jersey.
Extra water – along with a possible electrolyte boost -- is never more important than in the heat of summer.
Trace minerals are important to calves’ development, but these nutritional components can vary in source. It turns out some trace minerals are more palatable than others, resulting in differences in consumption.
If feed isn’t mixed and fed properly, balancing rations to the nth decimal point doesn’t really matter.
A transition back to rubber boots will be soon coming for Julia Nunes as she is just about ready to finish up her service as the 73rd and 74th Alice in Dairyland.
Paying attention to feed-bunk behaviors can alert dairy producers to issues with diet, feed management or delivery that impact health and performance.
Between the numerous variables of mixing milk replacer, storing and heating raw milk and properly dosing for various ages – even if just one person is involved in calf care – consistency is a tough goal to reach.
The long-awaited release of new national dairy nutrition guidelines has spawned a flurry of activity in the dairy nutrition industry.
We now know the beneficial influence of feeding transition milk to calves. Is there a way to deliver that nutritional and immunological support and bypass the tedious process of harvesting and feeding transition milk?
The relationship between the digestive tract and brain function is receiving a lot of newfound attention. Ruminant nutritionist Mariah Gull explores the connection between the two and how stress can upset the balance.
Each Memorial Day weekend, a winning tradition unfolds in the midsection of the country. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has a packed weekend, but what happens at the very end is what really gains the most attention.
Navigating social, environmental and economic issues facing dairy businesses in a world shifting from COVID-19 restrictions took center stage at the 2022 Dairy Sustainability Alliance® Spring Meeting, held May 18-19.
A more traditional approach to feeding ration elements separately could help address concerns related to overhead costs, labor shortages, and fuel usage.
Its name sounds like something that belongs in the pages of a Dr. Seuss book. But festulolium actually is a highly useful hybrid forage grass – the result of a cross between fescue grass and ryegrass.
The most important number to review on a forage analysis is the ADF or NDF content of a forage on a dry matter basis, not crude protein.
Analysts predict the possibility of $10.00/bu. corn in the coming year is not out of the question.
It is important to know that the success of the entire production will be based on determining a proper date to cut for the highest yield and quality.
Each Memorial Day weekend, a winning tradition unfolds in the midsection of the country. At the end of the biggest motorsports event in the world, all eyes will be on the winner’s circle of the Indianapolis 500.
Milk prices have soared and producers are looking at each line of the milk check to learn just what the money maker is. The takeaway is that strong component prices easily help drive that price per hundredweight up.
Maternal colostrum is often considered nature’s “perfect food.” But does this “free” resource help calves achieve passive immunity as reliably as the guaranteed ingredients in a bag of colostrum replacer?
Learn how two Ontario dairy farmers stretch their forage acres by sandwiching rye in between regular-season no-till crops.
Michigan dairy farmer, Ashley Kennedy, grabbed the opportunity to have a front-seat voice to testify at the Senate Agriculture Committee’s first hearing committed to the upcoming Farm Bill.
The demand for dairy is evident and the current robust milk futures market has taken notice. Mike North talks about the dynamic dairy market that both the domestic and global demand for U.S. dairy has created.
A high incidence of sole ulcers in a dairy herd is probably not the fault of the ration.
Lower hay supplies and to potential for lower acres and lower production this year could increase hay prices significantly.
Most early lactation high producing cows are in negative energy balance because the demand for energy exceeds the energy the cow is able to consume.
Most research recommends 5-7% sugar as an upper limit. However, cows can certainly handle lots of sugar in the diet.
Despite the U.S. winning its first challenge over dairy with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement agreement in January, Secretary of Agriculture said he is not satisfied with the market access into Canada for dairy products.
Not long ago, New York City’s mayor Eric Adams was attempting to ban chocolate milk from being served in NYC public schools. Now he is backing off this proposition and turning his attention elsewhere causing pushback.