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Stress Management: Cow Comfort
Cow comfort is becoming an often heard phrase in today's industry trade papers. It's a means to describe relationship between the well being of the cow and the housing systems. Cow comfort improvement focuses m...
Author: Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (Dairy publication)
Publication date: 12/22/2008    Rating:    Views: 1212

Improving Dairy Cow Fertility through Genetics
Dairy cows today produce twice as much milk per lactation as cows did in 1957 (Figure 1). This improvement has come about because of genetic selection for milk yield, improved feeding practices and other change...
Author: Peter J. Hansen - Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida (Gainesville) – 44th Fl...
Publication date: 12/17/2008    Rating:    Views: 1986

Utilizing the Growing Local Supply of Distillers Grains
Across the Midwest, ethanol plants (primarily dry mill vs. wet mill process) are being planned and built and existing plants expanded. Today over 98 percent of commercially produced ethanol is used to extend ga...
Author: Robert M. Kaiser, Dairy Agent - University of Wisconsin Extension
Publication date: 12/17/2008    Rating:    Views: 1489

Impact of Minerals in Water on Dairy Cows
Water is the most essential of all nutrients required by animals. Water functions in the digestion and metabolism of nutrients, elimination of waste products from the body via urine, feces and respiration, tran...
Author: Jim Linn, Department of Animal Science - University of Minnesota
Publication date: 12/15/2008    Rating:    Views: 800

Bioavailability and Antagonists of Trace Minerals in Ruminant Metabolism
Modern analytical techniques and instrumentation make it possible to accurately determine trace mineral concentration in feed and animal tissues. Unfortunately, however, such determinations provide no informati...
Author: David R. Ledoux and Marcia C. Shannon, Division of Animal Sciences (University of Missouri) – ...
Publication date: 11/24/2008    Rating:    Views: 1547

Managing Livestock Manure
If proper manure management practices are followed, animal wastes can be utilized as a valuable nutrient resource rather than treated as a waste. Manure is an excellent “organic” fertilizer containing nitrogen ...
Author: Dr. Ross H. McKenzie, Research Scientist – Agronomy / Agricultural Research Division, Lethbrid...
Publication date: 11/13/2008    Rating:    Views: 1052

Effect of Vitamin E and Selenium on anoestrus and conception of dairy cattle
The changing trends in animal production require the owner/manager to become more efficient in all aspects of the production cycle. Major contributors to economic returns include reproduction and nutritional ma...
Author: Susim Ray - College of Veterinary Science, West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sciences...
Publication date: 10/27/2008    Rating:    Views: 2386

Impact of Dried Seaweed Meal on Heat-Stressed Lactating Dairy Cattle
Twenty-four lactating Holstein cows were used to determine the production response to the inclusion of brown seaweed in the basal diet during summer heat stress. Cows were blocked by lactation number, days in m...
Author: B. Cvetkovic, M. J. Brouk, and J. E. Shirley - Dairy Day (Report of Progress 941) - Kansas Sta...
Publication date: 10/24/2008    Rating:    Views: 1207

Silage inoculants: are they profitable? A case study of wholeplant corn silage
Research on the topic “Profitability in the use of silage inoculants”  in scientific literature shows that many authors (e.g. Vanzant, 2008; Raue, 2006) have already tried to use methods for calcul...
Author: Yunior Acosta Aragón, Technical Manager for Preservatives - BIOMIN GmbH
Publication date: 10/14/2008    Rating:    Views: 1127

Role of chromium in livestock nutrition: A review
Chromium was first reported as an essential mineral in rats (Schwarz and Mertz., 1959) and was demonstrated as an essential mineral for humans in 1977 (Jeejebhoy et al., 1977).The major focus of chromium resear...
Author: Rajalekshmi, M.; Gnanasekar, R.; and Hari Chirakkal - Courtesy of Kemin Industries Inc.
Publication date: 10/07/2008    Rating:    Views: 1231