The principles for raising replacement heifers
26-02-2014 - An effective heifer feeding programme can be divided into the following phases:
26-02-2014 - An effective heifer feeding programme can be divided into the following phases:
24-02-2014 - Silage is one of the most important nutritional sources for the modern dairy industry. It provides high energy roughage at a relatively low cost. Good management is vital for the maximum utilization of the resource. This is, however, one of the many areas for which the dairyman has...
24-02-2014 - There is a plethora of feed additives on the market. They all claim to give added value to your business by means of performance, profit and improved health status, to name a few. In amongst all of the marketing, how do you determine if additives are adding benefit?Kees Rombouts...
24-02-2014 - In order to obtain maximum advantage from a pasture, one must realize that yield is not the only important factor because aspects such as the quality of the grass and the optimal utilisation of Rye grass play an important part. In order to overcome this challenge, it is vital for...
14-02-2014 - Fermentation & storage in grass silage
07-02-2014 - Making grass silage while the sun shines
31-01-2014 - MAKING THE MOST OF GRASS SILAGE
24-01-2014 - What you put in is what you get out
29-07-2013 - This conversion process is made possible by the animal’s rumen, filled with millions of rumen microbes, which act like a fermentation tank to break down the fibres and free the nutrients that the animal can convert into animal protein. Under commercial circumstances, however, the...