Source: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Do you test your forages each year? Knowing the nutritional value of your hay or haylage helps farm management in a number of ways. First, it helps you determine if you...
Health Canada has revised its regulations on the insecticide lambda-cyhalothrin, reinstating certain livestock feed uses while maintaining restrictions on others. Key changes include:
Reinstated Uses: Canola and flax seed/meal, field corn grain and milled by-products, popcorn grain, legume vegetable...
Harvested feeds are beginning to make their way out of the fields to be stored for feeding livestock. Rations will be developed based on what feedstuffs are stockpiled, but how do you know the nutritional profile of a feed?...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
How ergot affects plants and livestock, and best management practices when feeding contaminated grains.
“Black, hard, seed-like fungal bodies that can be found in cereal grains and forage grasses is a sign of concern. This is...
Don’t risk your investment and profits when the stakes are high, say feed quality experts
Taking steps to protect feed from contaminants is advised for livestock farmers and feed mills post this year’s harvest, say feed quality experts.
This is especially...
Dairy farms should prioritize the first cutting of alfalfa over other field tasks to ensure high-quality haylage. With farms balancing planting, manure spreading, and daily chores, timely alfalfa harvest is essential to maintaining forage quality.
Importance of First Cutting Alfalfa
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Source: Manitoba Agriculture Food, and Rural Initiatives
One of the biggest problems when calculating feed costs is assigning an accurate value to home-grown forages. Most areas have an established dry hay market and it is relatively easy to estimate a hay...
Source: Selko news release
Micronutrients, Nutreco's U.S.-based feed additive company, is rebranding as Selko, effective January 2023. The change streamlines the portfolio of specialty feed additives, including IntelliBond trace minerals under a single global brand.
Expanding on a legacy of research...
By Lon W. Whitlow, Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
The 2018 harvest was an extremely wet one for many U.S. silage farmers, delaying harvest by multiple weeks across wide swaths of the Corn Belt. Such abnormal...
Top examples showcased at Young Animal Nutrition Summit, March 3-4 in Amsterdam
As global animal agriculture ramps up the pace of innovation to meet the demands and challenges of a new era of production, a broad swath of dramatic advances in...
