Current Issue of Dairy Digest
In this issue: Freestalls for Heifers? Yes!; Multi-Fuel Flexibility: Coping with Higher Energy Prices; Water on Pastures: Does It Pay or Cost?; The Profit Puzzle: How Do You Put Together All the Pieces?; Dairying in the Tropics: A Fight Against Weather and Low-Quality Feed
April 2012
- Freestalls for Heifers? Yes!
- Designed and managed properly freestall shelters can be a good fit on productive dairy farms.
- Multi-Fuel Flexibility: Coping with Higher Energy Prices
- Since we cannot predict prices of energy in the future, we need to prepare for fluctuations in prices of the various energy sources.
- Water on Pastures: Does It Pay or Cost?
- Labor and cost spent getting water into each paddock may pay for itself quicker than almost any other management practice on the farm.
- The Profit Puzzle: How Do You Put Together All the Pieces?
- Some characteristics of unprofitable dairies.
- Dairying in the Tropics: A Fight against Weather and Low-Quality Feed
- Key factors can be better managed to improve milk production.
