Resources: Dairy

Corn silage harvest is well under way and speculation is rampant as to how good the crop will be. It’s pretty easy to see that yield will be good, but assessment of quality is more difficult. Whole plant moisture is ...

Dairy diets are made up of a combination of forage and grains. Depending on its quality, as much as 70% of what a dairy cow eats can be forage. At our mills we do routine quality control testing to determine ...

What is dry matter? Understanding what this is and how to use it is important to the success of a feeding program. In short, dry matter is that portion of a feedstuff that is not water. To test for it, ...

Remember the old adage, “A dry year will scare you to death, but a wet year will starve you to death.” As with most farm management, good practices enhance profitability while poor practices hurt the bottom line. Corn silage is ...

Kent Natural Yeast (KNY) is a high-quality, brewers yeast supplement. Our product starts with a unique strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that has undergone the fermentation process at human-grade breweries. The liquid brewers yeast then undergoes a unique manufacturing process, resulting ...

Unfortunately, cramped crowded conditions have become a way of life for the majority of dairy cows housed in free stall barns. In a 2010 USDA National Animal Health Monitoring Services survey of farms with cows housed in free stall barns, ...