The updated nutrition standards require that low-fat or fat-free milk remain a part of every school meal.
Dan Souza wants to promote dairy’s nutritional qualities to keep industry viable.
En una granja lechera todos los días hay que tomar múltiples decisiones respecto a lo que comerán las vacas, cuanto comerán, cuales vacas comerán determinado alimento y como se les va a mezclar y presentar el alimento a las mismas.
Milking rations as low as 14% crude protein still yield 90 to 100 lb. of milk/cow/day.
This year’s growing conditions have made feeds more variable, resulting in significant shits in feeding values and production responses.
BY SHERRI ACKERMANThe Tampa TribuneTAMPA It’s the latest public education controversy to sweep the nation, and it has nothing to do with high-stakes testing or graduation rates.This debate is about chocolate milk, and it’s coming soon to a cafeteria near you.This summer, the Los Angeles Public School District banned chocolate milk from its lunchrooms. It joined a growing list of states, including Florida, that link the sugary beverage to childhood obesity.One school nutrition manager in Coloradodubbed chocolate milk “soda in drag.”
Corn conception, and development, is poorly understood. So biology professor Virginia Walbot devotes her career to tackling one of botany’s big puzzles: the sex life of corn.
More frequent meals means there is less feed slugging into the rumen, less chance of acidosis and a more stable rumen environment.
These days, farm subsidies are blamed for lots of things, even the nation’s obesity epidemic. Critics say the billions of dollars in annual subsidies encourage farmers to grow too much grain. Prices drop, food gets cheaper, and we eat too much. Seems like a simple equation, except it’s not.
At a feeding rate of 19 grams/cow/day, AminoShure-L delivers 6.2 gm of metabolizable protein for 11¢/cow/day
Dr. Sun led the development of hybrid alfalfa
Mike Meier is a fourth-generation dairy farmer. Instead of feeding the cows all the grain they can handle, Meier uses an intensive grazing process that cuts his production costs dramatically.
Pasture-based dairy is a great niche in Missouri.
DFA members and staff nationwide join fight against hunger.
School board also approves adding more vegetarian entrees to student menus.
The SiloSolve® line consists of three new inoculant products
Forages provide both structural and chemical neutral detergent fiber in dairy cow diets.
En las dietas para vascas lecheras, el forraje provee fibra detergente neutro (FDN)tanto estructural como químico. El FDN estructural es importante para la rumia y para mantener al rumen saludable, mientras que la digestibilidad del FDN químicoproveeenergía para la producción de leche y grasa de la leche.
Hearing will consider proposed pricing changes from California Dairies Inc., Land O’Lakes.
Raising the DCAD of lactating diets to between +35 and +45 milliequivalents/100 grams of dry matter has a positive effect on milk and fat.
Except for corn silage and distillers grains, $8 corn is still a better buy than most alternative feedstuffs,
Genetically-modified corn hybrids that are Roundup Ready and resistant to Western corn rootworm show no difference in milk yield or components
Many factors contribute to rising feed costs: diet formulation, feed wastage, ingredient selection and purchasing. One frequently mentioned cost-cutting measure, because it is a direct cash cost, is to eliminate minerals and particularly trace mineral supplementation. However, all dairy diets need some supplementation as natural, home-raised feeds are usually low in most required trace minerals. Not supplementing will result in a moderate deficiency.
NittanyCow is the most comprehensive nutrition balancer available.
Highlights from the Dairy Checkoff’s 2010 Annual Meeting
The DCAD calculator allows users to input the levels of four macrominerals — sodium, potassium, chloride and sulfur — to help identify current ration DCAD levels and provide a better understanding of why certain levels are critical during each stage of lactation.
The link between the ration on paper and the ration delivered to the cows is the person mixing the feed. So it makes sense to involve your nutrition consultant in the training and education of that person.