Supplying dairy cows with sufficient trace minerals like copper, manganese and zinc can help reduce lameness and improve reproduction.
By HEATHER TUCKER*
*Dr. Heather Tucker is a research scientist, ruminant nutrition, with Novus International.
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Incomplete or inadequate silo covering results in increased silage losses during the storage period.
By J.M. WILKINSON*
*J.M. Wilkinson is with the University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington Campus in Loughborough, U.K.
THE successful preservati...
*Rick Grant is president of the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute in Chazy, N.Y.
PRODUCING milk with greater fat and protein content enhances herd profitability. In fact, the amount of milk components produced daily explains more t...
Rumen undigested NDF levels in dairy cow diets can be manipulated to respond to changes in dairy economic conditions.
By DAVID C. WEAKLEY*
*Dr. David Weakley is director-dairy forage research for Forage Genetics International.
MUCH has been repor...
Feeding supplemental fatty acids to boost cow performance had been a concept since the 1930s, but practical ways to deliver bypass fatty acids were lacking. Once commercialized, the resulting developments forever changed dairy nutrition.
By ELLIO...
*Dr. Al Kertz is a board-certified, independent dairy nutrition consultant with ANDHIL LLC based out of St. Louis, Mo. His area of specialty is dairy calf and heifer nutrition and management.
UNFORTUNATELY, at times, calf growers cannot wait to g...
How can nutritionists manage variability to optimize animal performance when including DDGS in diet formulations?
By KEVIN HERRICK and FERNANDO DIAZ-ROYON*
*Dr. Kevin Herrick is technical service director of nutrition at Poet Nutrition. Dr. Ferna...
