A few weeks ago, at the Penn State Dairy Nutrition Workshop, I asked the audience what their choice would be between Forage A containing a “fiber degradation rate” (Kd) equal to 2.6% per hour...

As the world population continues to grow, farmers are faced with the synonymous demand of producing more with less

Phosphorus feeding levels for transition cows has been a topic of discussion for some time now as our previous standards have been challenged with new research

In our industry, we often use the terms “diet” and “ration” interchangeably

In the Feeding Fundamentals column and throughout invited talks or seminars, we tend to cover a lot of ground

Depending on available sources of starch and sugar, diets for dairy cows might look quite different across the country

Strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions have been widely sought after by many industry sectors

When a disease organism hitches a ride on an object, feed particle, another animal, bodily fluid, or the air to find and infect a new host, dairy farmers pay the price for that journey

With an improved All-Milk price and lower commodity prices compared to much of last year, dairy farmers’ pocketbooks are feeling less squeezed so far in 2024

In the 8th edition of Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (also known as NASEM) put more emphasis on forage neutral detergent fiber (NDF)...

Feeding cows in a way that maximizes production and income over feed costs starts with a healthy rumen

The detergent system of forage analysis, which was developed by Peter Van Soest at Cornell University, involves boiling forages in neutral or acid detergents

If I told you there’s a dietary additive available that university data supports an 11:1 return on investment for, would that get your attention?

In a previous article, I mentioned that undegraded neutral detergent fiber (uNDF) describes the potential utilization of NDF

Can we assume that cows within a pen use all their resources uniformly?

Bill Weiss, a professor emeritus from The Ohio State University, calls it the “sampling dilemma.”

The lack of price-supportive grain news means that feed prices have settled into a weaker pattern in recent months and are set to continue their declines

An effective feeding program must be an area of focus

Gearheads like myself understand that horsepower and torque measure two different things

Not long ago I opened a cupboard to grab a coffee mug and noticed a blue-green tint to a bread loaf on the middle shelf above the mugs