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Opportunities for dairy producers and heifer raisers to enhance heifer-rearing programs.

Non-traditional forages will be finding their way into summer and fall feeding programs. Here’s help in managing them.

Cows fed this additive show fewer metabolic problems plus a 5 lb. increase in milk output.

Emergency rations can work, at least temporarily, until new crop feed can be harvested or purchased.

Debates about food and fuel are often framed in absolutes: Corn is either for ethanol or for livestock feed.

Simply achieving “sustainability” is not good enough. We must have the research, technology and production practices to go beyond sustainability.

But it’s still a volatile weather market for dairy producers who rely on purchased hay.

Four areas where you can make improvements.

Though agriculture has become increasingly volatile during the last decade and risk management has never been more critical to farm and ranch sustainability, farmers are lucky.

Dried distillers’ grains are familiar to livestock producers, who use them as feed. But an Alaska brewer has figured out a way to use them to make more beer.