Feed Prices
- Missouri By-Product Feed Prices
- Milk2006-Corn Silage - evaluate milk per ton and milk per acre from corn silage (Wisconsin computer program)
- Milk2000-Alfalfa/Grass - evaluate milk per ton and milk per acre from alfalfa and grasses (Wisconsin computer program)
Feeds
- Feed Inventory Management
- Iowa By-Products
- Distillers Grains as a Protein and Energy Supplement for Dairy Cattle (pdf)
- Contracting Corn Silage for Your Dairy (pdf)
Forage Sampling, Testing, Marketing, Storage
Sampling
Testing
- Forage Testing Laboratories (pdf)
- Understanding forage quality (UW Extension)
- Does forage quality pay? (UW Extension)
Marketing
- Iowa Hay and Straw Directory
- Fort Atkinson hay auctions (IA)
- Dyersville hay auctions (IA)
- Rock Valley hay auctions (IA)
- Pricing Forage in the Field (pdf)
Hay storage
Management
Corn silage
- Key Points to Make High Quality Corn Silage
- Putting Forages to Work in your Transition Cow Program
- Making Quality Corn Silage (pdf)
- UW-Extension information resources
- 2010 Iowa Corn Silage Variety Yield Trial (pdf)
- Corn Processing Options (pdf)
- Corn Processing Options (ppt)
Alfalfa
- Alfalfa Stand Assessment (pdf)
- Alfalfa Stand Assessment-short (pdf)
- Cutting height
- Estimating Alfalfa Quality using PEAQ
- Forages-Immediate Management Following a Frost
- Is it Profitable to use Foliar Fungicide in Alfalfa Production?
Management of Aflatoxin and Mycotoxin Risk
- Aflatoxin and Mycotoxin Risks (University of Illinois, Mike Hutjens video)
- Aflatoxin M1 in Milk (University of Arkansas)
Nutrition
- National Research Council Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle
Heat Stress/Heat Abatement Webinar (5/26/11)
- Elanco Heat Abatement Management Guide
- Dr. Lance Baumgard: Heat Stress Physiology and Nutritional Management
- Dr. Tom Bailey: Heat Stress Consequences and Heat Abatement Technologies and Strategies
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