How do ration changes influence the rumen environment and its microbial population?

How to keep your dairy cows chill Successful Farming magazine interviewed Jefo Nutrition’s Chris Gwyn about dairy cow stress and its deadly health challenges. The article covers how to spot stress and outlines management practices and tools to help reduce its effects in your herd. Chris says that cows can usually overcome stress from one…

Have you found a sweet spot for transitioning cows from a fresh diet to a lactating diet? To keep post-calving stress at a minimum, many producers provide a separate pen for fresh cows, giving this group more individualized attention, comfortable space and a specific fresh-cow diet. But how much time in the pen is ideal?…

Pushing up feed and calculating dry matter intake are so important, yet these basic fundamentals are often neglected when the focus is put more on feed efficiency, labor efficiency or the many other numbers that get crunched. By no means are these other areas less important. It’s just that if there is no feed available…