For every dollar you invest, improved bunker silo management practices will return three dollars to you. Explains how to achieve this through moisture content, silage pH, packing, feedout, and covering and sealing. Two common pests on dairy farms, the house fly and stable fly, can lower milk production, reduce feed conversion efficiency, expose the herd to disease-causing organisms, and cause blood loss. Tells how to monitor and manage fly populations effectively. Reports on the new technology that tests a cow's urea nitrogen level in milk.
Urea nitrogen is protein waste, which hurts the dairy farm's profitability.
New analytical technology enables the measurement of urea nitrogen in milk along with other milk components such as fat, protein, and somatic cells. By gauging excess nitrogen produced by the herd, farmers can modify the herd's diet. Will help you develop plans that support both technical and management goals. This resource will improve farm managers' abilities in planning, implementing, and controlling forage production practices by applying agronomic knowledge and technology. Covers forage quality, dairy herd requirements, the farm's forage supplying power, managing the soil resources, input management, planning and preparation for spring and summer crop work, harvest and storage management, manure, pasture, initiating a control program for the established crop, and more.