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24.01.2022 Understanding Silage Inoculants.. Silage has become a staple component of dairy cow diets virtually year round. Ensuring it is a cost effective feed source is critical. The efficiency of converting silage dollars to milk dollars is a significant contributor to farm profit. Today's inoculant market has many products on offer. Choosing a quality inoculant is essential to improve feed conversion effiency. To read more click the link ... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/understanding-silage-/

20.01.2022 A Wet Harvest? There are two critical issues, and damaging effects, from wet paddocks and possible higher moisture silage. 1) Compaction of soils, 2) Quality loss in silage due to adverse conditions.. To Read more click link... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/a-wet-harvest/

20.01.2022 Dry Cows Need Protein We have made significant advances in recent years in transition nutrition. Lead Feed grain mixes with anionic inclusion especially, to minimise milk fever and ketosis. However, dry cow nutrition is still a major issue as research uncovers this period as also having major influence on problems at calving, fertility and whole of lactation performance. To read more click the link below.. http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/dry-cows-need-protein/

17.01.2022 24hr Digestibility - A Key to Profit Rate-of-passage is a very important concept for both cow health, and especially, feed conversion efficiency - feed dollars to milk dollars. It is also a tension, that is, too fast from very lush pasture or sub-optimal rumen pH, will reduce feed conversion efficiency and increase feed cost per litre significantly, not to mention cow health. Our valuable feed ends up in manure pats in the paddock instead of milk in the vat. Alternately, high fibre feeds such as poor quality/mature silage or hay, will slow down rate-of-passage of feed through the digestive tract, reducing daily feed intake and crashing milk production. In both cases, the feed cost per litre will escalate.... To read more click link.. http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/24hr-digestibility-a-/

17.01.2022 CALF SCOURS & Misconceptions Misconception #1 Nutritional scours is a common problem in calves.. A generation or two ago, nutritional scours was an issue, but today's high quality/low cell count milk and calf powdered milks no longer carry scour causing organisms common in the past. Nutritional scours were diagnosed on the basis calves passing high amounts of manure. A calf consuming 0.8 kgs (6 lts x 13% solids) of milk solids daily will pass significant amounts of manure. Nutritional scours can occur through stress. Milk changes, environmental, transport, vaccination, weather, dehorning etc. However, these stress induced scours usually pass in a couple of days...... To read more misconceptions click the link.... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/calf-scours-misconcep/

17.01.2022 Common Silage Misconceptions Farming has a tradition of passing down practices and beliefs from generation to generation, too frequently leading to an array of misconceptions in regard to various farming practices. Silage making is no exception to this tradition and has left us with many untruths that have economic consequences.. To read more click link ; http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/common-silage-misconc/

16.01.2022 Home Grown Feeds and the Profit Matrix As a general statement, few would dispute home grown feeds are cheapest. However, we need to look at this more closely. Should we talk just feeds per se, or energy? It is energy we convert to milk. We should be discussing the cost of energy in any given feed when deciding what is cheapest. Effectively, feed dollars converted to milk dollars for this is the real determinant of profit.. To read more click link... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/home-grown-feeds-and-/

16.01.2022 Managing Margins Anyone who has been in dairy farming for twenty years or more knows full well, the margins we once had don’t exist today. What we thought were ‘tough times’, we now realise were luxury margins. When I started share farming in the early 70’s, costs, including finance costs, were benchmarked at 30% of farm income. To Read more click the link below... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/managing-margins/

15.01.2022 Calf Scours - In a recent paper, Professor John Middleton, University of Missouri, stressed prompt treatment was of greater importance than cause of the scour. Calf scours in the first 30 days are caused by a variety of bacteria, viruses and parasites. The primary reason for calves becoming sick is dehydration. The agents causing the scour will be addressed by the calf’s immune system, however weak or strong that may be, the immune response will cause inflammation of the gut which in turn will cause the loss fluids and electrolytes. http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/calf-scours/

14.01.2022 Digestive Tract Development in Newborn Calves Most newborn calves are separated from their mother soon after birth on modern dairy farms. In the first few weeks of life they then consume less milk solids daily than if they were nursed by their mothers. We then expect rapid growth and development of the GI tract to accommodate digestion of solid feeds and early weaning. Natural weaning takes up to ten months. We expect our calf to achieve this in two months... To read more click the link... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/digestive-tract-devel/

14.01.2022 Knowing The Risks Preventative Management for Calf Health The foundations of calf health are colostrum, nutrition and enviroment. The timeframe which impacts whole-of-life productivity is the first week, and these two are intimately connected - health and productivity. Investment in genetics can be futile and obliterated in this first week; colostrum being the key ingredient for not just immunity, but activation of genes responsible for lifetime productivity. To read more click the link... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/knowing-the-risks/

13.01.2022 More On Transition.. Transition appears to be a subject to add nauseam. However,in the wise words of Dr. Tom Overton (Cornell University), we need to shift our view of transition from a time of disease threat to one of production/reproduction opportunity. To read more click the link below.... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/more-on-transition/

12.01.2022 Water For Calves Water is THE most important nutrient for calves. It is required for all of life’s processes including digestion, metabolism of nutrients, elimination of waste material and excess heat, and mineral ion balance. To enhance water intake, clean fresh water is a must daily. To read More Click Link Below... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/water-for-calves/

11.01.2022 Pregnancy Rate As premature as this subject may seem in January, it has been well determined that the two drivers of farm profitability are; feed and pregnancy rate. The percentage of fresh cows in your herd eash year will largely determine your milk production, assuming they have the feed to express their genetic potential and post-calving disposition to milk production.... To read more click the link... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/pregnancy-rate/

11.01.2022 Today's Cows Have Genetic Drive To Produce Milk At All Costs.. An analogy I like to use to highlight this issue is: grandpa used power kero to fuel his 35 Fergie. Why don’t we run our ‘genetically improved’ 200 hp Fendt on power kero? (Forget the AdBlue). The answer every dairy farmer knows. So why do we fuel our ‘Fendt genetic’ cows on 1950’s diets expecting ‘Fendt’ performance? Grandpa had very few fresh cow problems. But grandpa was on a roll at 10 lts from fresh cows. Back to the 35 Fergie/Fendt analogy and the fuel. To Read More Click Link Below.. http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/todays-cow/

11.01.2022 Only One Chance (Growing Out Heifers) Adequate nutrition of growing heifers can be a challenge over summer months when ample quality pasture is not available. Frequently low protein diets through this period can limit frame and muscle growth rates. Well grown heifers that conceive on time can go on to be highly productive dairy cows; but if they do not meet these criteria it is a lost lifetime opportunity. There is no such thing as a 'catch-up phase'....... To read more click link.... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/only-one-chance-growi/

07.01.2022 Dairies Run on Calcium In recent years I’ve become more concerned with just what are we doing in our dairy farming. Certainly we’ve made advances in milk production per cow, dry matter harvested per hectare, but I see from time to time some disturbing signs while inspecting herds on my client’s farms. Soil issues, plant pest problems, both of which have driven me to reading appropriate material on these and other problems in cow health and performance, especially fertility. To read more click link.. http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/dairies-run-on-calcium/

06.01.2022 Does Calf Nutrition Influence Lifetime Milk Production? It has been known for some time that quality colostrum contains up to 180 substances, which were initially thought to be natural growth promotants. However, later research identified these substances as being responsible for activating genes in the newborn calf covering all major bodily functions including milk production, growth, immunity, fertility..... and more. To Read More Click the link... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/does-calf-nutrition-i/

01.01.2022 Does Nutrition Influence Profit? There are three aspects associated with dairy farming that can elevate or decimate farm profits, and individual cows especially. Feed, Fertililty and Lameness. All three are highly related, outside eniviromental causes to lameness. So, the answer is yes! To read more click the link.. http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/does-nutrition-influe/

01.01.2022 TRANSITION - NEB, Immunity and the Domino Effect There is a direct correlation between Negative Energy Balance(NEB) and Immunity, and the individual imbalances, around calving. Imbalance in both energy and immune system are inevitable at calving; the degree of severity will determine the domino effect this has; being the cascade of metabolic and infectious diseases that can be precipitated from these two crucial functions of our calving cow..... To read more click link..... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/transition/

01.01.2022 Avoiding Disease in Dairy Calves This is the title of a presentation by Professor Geoff Smith (North Carolina State University) at a seminar early this year. After announcing there is no 'magic bullet' or secret formula to keep young calves health, he continued to say, there are four time proven fundamentals to achieving this goal: 1) Removing the source of infection from the calf's enviroment 2) Removing the calf from the contaminated enviroment 3) Increasing immunity; and... 4) Decreasing stress. To read more click the link... http://www.dairytechnutrition.com.au/avoiding-disease-in-d/ See more