UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI EXTENSION

Feeds and Nutrition

Feed quality is the most critical component to ensuring that your dairy herd is getting its proper nutrition for optimal health, milk production and profitability. The following links provide to you the resources to learn more about feeds and nutrition.

Forages

Bale Cost Per Ton Calculator (Missouri)
Forage Publications (Missouri)
Dairy Forage Research Center (Wisconsin)
Forage Resources (Wisconsin)
Forage Information System (Oregon)
Forage Information (Indiana)
Dairy Forages (Florida)
Haylage and Other Fermented Forages (North Dakota)
Intrepreting Composition and Determining Value (North Dakota)
Storage, Sampling and Measuring (North Dakota)
Poisonous Plants (Pennsylvania)

Silage

Cost of Drought Stressed Soybeans as Baleage (Missouri)
Corn Silage Resources (Wisconsin)
QualitySilage.com (Wisconsin)
Estimating Silage Value Spreadsheet (Missouri)
Corn Silage Management (North Dakota)
Silage Fermentation and Preservation (North Dakota)
Bunkers, Piles, or Bags | Excel (Kansas State)
Silage Publications (Florida)

Dairy Nutrition

Dairy Cattle Nutrition (eXtension)
Dairy Cattle Nutrition (Wisconsin)
Dairy Cattle Nutrition (Penn State)
Dairy Nutrition Publications (Kentucky)
Nutrition Publications (Minnesota)
Nutrition Publications (Texas)
Dairy Nutrition (Kansas State)
Feeding and Nutrition Papers (Illinois)
Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle (NRC)
NRC Model Software (NRC)
Use of Minerals in Dairy Cattle (North Dakota)

Dairy Grazing

Dairy Grazing Page (Missouri)

By-Products

By-Products Page (Missouri)

Budgets

Forage Budgets (Missouri)