Confessions From a Husband and a Nutritionist
A confession. I thought it looked straight, drilled two holes in the wall and hung the picture. My wife didn’t see it that way and now we have three holes in the wall. A second confession. For a long time, I thought I could go onto a dairy and eyeball if a TMR mixer was level… no wife present to double check the measurement. And now I know better. But does it matter if the mixer isn’t perfectly level?
November 2023 Midwest Market Updates
November analysis of feed pricing for the Midwest region identified 4 feeds as value priced: corn gluten meal, corn distillers dry, corn gluten feed, and corn silage. Whey, alfalfa hay RFV 150, meat and bone meal, beet pulp, wheat straw, and tallow were identified as…
Old Man Winter’s Fun
Fall is a great time of year. Football is in full swing; harvest is wrapping up and the social media influencers can take selfies with their pumpkin spice lattes and colorful trees. Besides all these great things, there is that thing looming ahead of us: Old Man Winter. Rather than blog about how depressing winter can be though, I want to put attention on what can be proactively done now around your feed center to help make Old Man Winter’s ‘fun’ less challenging.
FeedFIT® Tracker: The Sailor’s Dilemma Solved
“Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.” This time-old phrase describes instances in life when we are surrounded by resources but, for one reason or another, cannot capitalize on their availability. In the case of the sailor, they are surrounded by ocean water but because of the salt, they cannot drink a drop. For the current-day dairy, we are surrounded by data but, because it is housed on multiple software, it becomes nearly impossible to derive insights from it. Until now.
October 2023 Midwest Market Updates
October analysis of feed pricing for the Midwest region identified 5 feeds as value priced: corn distillers dry, corn gluten meal, corn gluten feed, corn ground, and corn silage. Beet pulp, meat and bone meal, wheat straw, and tallow were identified as priced…