FEED & NUTRITION

Have you ever wondered if those additives you put in the feed at such low inclusion rates actually make it to each cow?

The goal of ensiling a forage crop is to conserve as much as possible of the nutrient and dry matter (DM) content in the crop at the time of harvest.

Non-nutritive feed components have become a lightning rod topic over the past six to 12 months. A promising growing season in 2016 yielded less than desirable quality and some contaminants in many regions.

Optimizing the health and production of dairy cows is largely achieved by ensuring that cows maintain sufficient nutrient intakes to meet their requirements. For that reason, high-quality diets need to be formulated to meet those requirements.

After analyzing corn, spring wheat, barley and triticale samples from across Canada as part of the 2016 Alltech Canada harvest analysis, the results indicated a high risk for the presence of mycotoxins in total mixed rations (TMR), distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and silage.

The political season has come and gone in the U.S.. Candidates often campaign on promises of change and improvements, but sometimes carry-through of these assurances doesn’t come to fruition.