Feed and Forage [DA.FF]
Dry Cow Nutrition for a Successful Transition into the Milking Herd
This video focuses on the importance of nutrition of dairy cows during the dry period and covers targets for body condition score, energy and protein intake and mineral nutrition. Nutritional…
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Grazing for Profit and Biodiversity: Deferred Grazing
Deferring (setting aside) pasture in the summer for grazing in the winter months provides the opportunity to outwinter cattle with significantly reduced winter costs (cost of conserving grass into silage…
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Grazing for Profit and Biodiversity: Grazing Strategies
Equally important to both profit and biodiversity as pasture composition, is the way in which we graze the pasture with livestock. Grazing duration, intensity and rest impacts profit drivers (pasture…
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Maximising Silage Quality
With silage time upon us, it is worth thinking about the key steps in the silage making process to maximise nutritional quality and minimise nutrient losses as much as possible.…
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Forage Crops Mineral Fact Sheet
Nutritionally forage crops are an excellent source of energy and good source of protein (although root crops tend to be at the lower end). This fact sheet will focus on…
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Managing The Transition Onto Forage Crops
It takes around three weeks for rumen bugs to adapt to a change in diet. If we change diet abruptly, the rumen struggles to cope and digestive upsets occur such as bloat, acidosis and/or loss of performance. If done badly, you can put the livestock off eating the crop altogether and, in severe cases, farmers have lost livestock due to poor transitioning.
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A Guide to Feed Budgeting
Forward planning forage supplies helps understand whether you will have enough conserved forage to meet the livestock demand – this is becoming more critical as weather is fluctuating more from…
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