Category: CONSULTANTS

I just had a call from one of my producers about harvesting dry corn silage (> 45% DM).  Not the first question this week.  This producer has the ability to set up an irrigation nozzle and spray the bunk with enough water to get...

Hi All, Since about 2010, the rate of genetic progress in our Holstein population has sped up.  Estimates are that the rate of progress is 1.5X to 2X what it had been in the previous decade.  What do you see from nutrition and...

I am dealing with a herd in Florida that has a very high somatic cell count.   They have lost their premium once due to being over 400,000.  Does anyone have a good lab where we can send sample to find out what strains we are...

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I have been challenged for the last three days with the concept of waking the sleeping beast in the rumen.  One of the roles that I want CWT to play is to see and evaluate things before the mainstream industry catches wind. ...

I uploaded two PDFs from Balchem’s website that discuss milk production between controlled energy diets (80-100% ME) and high energy diets (140-150% ME) and choline. It seems pretty clear that while controlled energy close...

I would love to catch up with some of you at CNC, especially because I wasn’t able to make the previous get together- any interest? i will be coming in wed morning and leaving Thursday afternoon-...

Morning!  Does sudan grass need a minimum time of emailing before feed out? thanks!  

Why is Magnesium Sulfate Heptahydrate (7H2O) 99.5% DM in the CNCPS library? Calculated on a molecular weight basis it’s about 51% water.   MgSO4 anhydrous is also 99.5% DM. The answer probably is that using our standard...

I put a copy of my 2016 study on the economics of parlors vs. robots in the consultant files.