Dairy animals

Publication date: Oct. 1, 2021

This budget presents information useful to Missouri farmers raising dairy heifers. The production practices used to develop the cost estimates are common in Missouri. Farmers are encouraged to customize this budget to fit their operation with the aid ...

Publication date: Oct. 1, 2021

This budget presents information useful to Missouri dairy farmers. The production practices used to develop the cost estimates are common for confinement dairies in Missouri. Farmers are encouraged to customize this budget to fit their operation with ...

Publication date: Oct. 1, 2021

This budget presents information useful to Missouri dairy farmers. The production practices used to develop the cost estimates are common for grazing dairies in Missouri. Farmers are encouraged to customize this budget to fit their operation with the ...

Publication date: May 1, 2021

Learn the benefits of using native forages in your grazing operation. Adding a diversity of native warm-season grasses as a component to a grazing system that already features cool-season grasses creates a forage system that allows livestock ...

Publication date: Nov. 1, 2020

This dairy farm business plan is intended to demonstrate one pathway for the next generation of Missouri’s dairy farmers. This path involves next generation confinement housing solutions that can improve cow comfort and cooling while removing ...

Publication date: Nov. 1, 2020

This 3,500-cow dairy farm business plan demonstrates one path forward for the next generation of Missouri’s dairy farmers. This path involves producing milk in Missouri with a 3,500-cow single site dairy, a capital and labor efficient scale. This ...