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.
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.
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.
New ration software does not require the excessive manual ‘tweaking’ so common with modeling software, thus eliminating hassles and saving time.
Harvesting drought-stressed corn silage will take extra testing for moisture and nitrates.
Knowing the rumen degradable starch content might provide the opportunity to look at a cehaper byproduct ingredient that offers starch.
Weigh the potential crop yield versus your need for forage.
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.
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.
$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.
Recent research indicates that the lysine availability of AminoShure-L is lower than originally projected.
Lely introduces a robotic TMR mixer/feeder/pusher all-in-one, hands-free robotic machine.
In a trial utilizing four pens of about 320 cows each, UC-Davis graduate student Nadia Swanepoel fed four levels of canola meal.
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.
The world’s leading dairy exporter will focus more tightly on emerging markets and products that meet growing consumer demand for dairy nutrition.
An average ROI of 3.35:1 was reported in a 10-herd Wisconsin study.
This is an opportunity to place a renewed emphasis on highlighting the importance and value of American-made dairy foods.
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.
The N-Box allows real-time analysis rather than waiting two days for samples to be shipped and run at a far-off lab.