Dairy feeding : publication
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Keeping records and tracking cost and production benchmarks can help you gauge a grazing dairy's financial performance. Read about pasture dairy performance indicators in this MU Extension guide.
This publication describes various fence and water systems appropriate for dairy grazing management.
Dairy grazing publication series
This publication is one in a series about operating and managing a pasture-based dairy. Although these publications often refer to conditions in Missouri, many of the principles and concepts described may apply to operations throughout the United States.
Discover four characteristics of profitable pasture-based dairies: system design, focused investments, cost control and careful approach to financial leverage.
Dairy grazing publication series
This publication is one in a series about operating and managing a pasture-based dairy. Although these publications often refer to conditions in Missouri, many of the principles and concepts described may apply to operations throughout the United States.
Dairy producers, learn about the cow’s reproductive structure and its more critical hormones, plus various ways to get cows and heifers pregnant in this University of Missouri Extension guide.
Dairy grazing publication series
This publication is one in a series about operating and managing a pasture-based dairy. Although these publications often refer to conditions in Missouri, many of the principles and concepts described may apply to operations throughout the United States.
Get answers to questions about how to feed livestock during drought. Read about nitrate toxicity, corn silage and baleage, forage grazing and feeding hay.
Richard J. Grant and Jeffrey F. KeownExtension Dairy Specialists, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Richard J. GrantExtension Dairy Specialist, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ronald L. Belyea and Rex E. RickettsDepartment of Animal Sciences
Learn how soil, forages and animals interact in grazing systems, and get ideas for improving pasture quality and extending the grazing season for beef or dairy.
Adding warm-season grass areas to a grazing system that already features cool-season grass creates a forage system that allows livestock owners to keep their herds feeding on high-quality forage for more of the year.
Fred Meinershagen, emeritusDepartment of Animal SciencesReviewed by Rex Ricketts and Barry SteevensDepartment of Animal Sciences
Barry Steevens, Ron Belyea and Richard CrawfordDepartment of Animal Sciences
Using NDF and ADF to Balance Diets can help improve animal performance. Visit our website today to learn more.
R.L. Belyea, R.E. Ricketts, F.A. Martz, R.R. Ruehlow and R.C. BennettDepartment of Animal Sciences
Ron Belyea and Barry SteevensDepartment of Animal SciencesWhole soybeans (WSB) can be used in dairy cow rations; they are palatable and have excellent feed value. WSB have lower protein content than soybean meal, but because of higher fat, have higher net energy content (Table 1).