Posts in category Nutrition

Lack of a safe and reliable water supply can significantly reduce dairy cow and calf health, not to mention milk production.

Dealing with the summer heat and humidity and the effects on cow health and milk production is one of the most significant management challenges faced by dairy farmers each year. Summertime heat can be a tough gig for dairy cows.

Nutritional requirements increase significantly and play a pivotal role in the cow’s energy status and health at the time of birth and in the early weeks of lactation when milk production is reaching its peak.

What makes a rumen healthy are the billions of microbes – bacteria, protozoa, fungi and yeasts – whose job it is to ferment the feedstuffs that a cow consumes in her diet. Collectively, we call them “bugs.”

Various health challenges may occur in animals and humans when high enough levels of mycotoxins are ingested through contaminated foods.

Nutrition for dairy cows is being fine-tuned daily – the result of an increasing need for improved feeding efficiencies as milk prices remain low and …

The trace minerals that receive the most attention are copper, zinc, manganese, selenium, cobalt and iodine. Deficiencies in trace minerals can impact growth, health and reproduction.

Animal agriculture in general and ruminants in particular are considered to be a key contributor to excessive greenhouse gas (GHG) accumulation.

A general rule of thumb is that a well-managed pasture should be able to produce an average of about one ton of dry matter per acre throughout the growing season

Rumen-protected fats offer the option to dairy farmers of adding extra energy to a diet to compensate for low energy corn silages or other roughage