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There are now 14 on-farm processors in the province, handling 3.5 million litres of milk

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4 ONTARIO DAIRY FARMER • DECEMBER 2015

FORAGES are the most important ingredient in a dairy ration and a mix of consistent, high-quality forages is the key to improved milk production and feed efficiency.

That’s the view of Dr. Ken Kalscheur, a dairy scientist with the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Centre.

In addition, he says increasing the percentage of forage in the dairy ration can improve herd health, reduce culling and lower cost of production.

Speaking at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin recently, Kalscheur says

ruminants are unique animals that are biologically designed to convert for-ages and other fibrous materials to high quality products such as milk and meat.

“Forages are really the foundation on which nutritionally sound and healthy ruminant diets are formulated,” he said.

He said research he and others have done indicates that dairy rations with a higher ratio of forages to concentrate can actually increase cow health, improve feed efficiency, and result in improved milk components.

“With normal rumen function cows are able to break down fibrous materi-als and increasing the percentage of forage in their diets results in lower incidences of acidosis and other meta-bolic disorders and problems with lami-nitis,” said Kalscheur, adding that diets high in forages also extends the lon-gevity of animals and saves costs in terms of lower culling rates.

“Other economic benefits include lower feed costs resulting from fewer purchases of what are usually higher cost concentrate ingredients.”

Forage can be kingForage can be kingFeeding more forage boosts feed efficiency in dairy herds

FEEDING John Phair

Four similar dairy herds with diets that differed only in the percentage of their forage content were recently studied

[ John Phair is a reporter with Ontario Farmer Publications ]

14 WESTERN DAIRY FARMER OCTOBER 2015

WHEN I BALANCE a lactating dairy TMR, I first use available forages as a base, then add energy-enriched feeds such as grains and fats, then add pro-tein sources, add in macro-, trace min-erals and fat-soluble vitamins. I might finish these diets off with a small amount of pro-biotics and other spe-cialty feed ingredients.

My final dairy diet should contain enough essential nutrients in the right proportions to meet the essential

nutrient requirements of dairy cows that produce large volumes of milk and milkfat as well as maintain healthy body condition. Oddly enough, I largely ignore formulating B-vitamins such as choline (B4), niacin (B3), bio-tin (B8), and thiamine (B1) into lacta-tion diets.

That’ because the National Research Council (2001) from which I draw information for lactating cow nutrient requirements, dictates:

““B-Vitamins requirements of lactat-ing dairy cows can be met through synthesis by ruminal microorganisms and escape of dietary sources from the rumen.” Furthermore, it has been my experience that aside from the occasionally polio case in bulls (caused by a B12 deficiency), actual B-vitamin are rare in lactating dairy cows.

Some university dairy nutritionists do not agree with the NRC’s B-vita-

Do early lactation cows need B-vitamins

supplements?

NUTRITION Peter Vitti

[ The writer is an independent dairy consultant based in Winnipeg ]

4 ONTARIO HOG FARMER NOVEMBER 2015

WHEN HIS NEXT-DOOR neighbour’s farm contracted the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) virus, John Van Engelen knew he needed to improve biosecurity on the hog farm that he runs with his son, located in Lambton County.

He also knew that controlling access to barns and maintaining a clean envi-ronment inside are the most effective ways to prevent disease from entering and spreading through hog herds. With funding through Growing Forward 2 (GF2), he built a new, 18’ x 20’ entry-way to his 240-sow farrow-to-finish operation.

By installing a Danish entry system, Van Engelen not only increased his biosecurity, but also better protected his animals’ health, kept his business

thriving and maintained his 35-year record of never having to de-populate his three barns. A Danish entry is the primary entrance room that is attached to a production area of a barn. This system has distinctly separate “clean” and “dirty” sides, separated by a solid barrier, to maintain sanitary conditions inside the pig barn.

John received $17,000 from the Growing Forward 2 PED Biosecurity Special Intake funding assistance pro-gram. Overall project costs ran to $45,000, which was well over what he had estimated, but as he says, “I’m happy with the result.” Building started in spring of 2014, and was completed that fall. Van Engelen did all the inside design and construction work himself.

CONTROLLED ENTRYA big sign politely telling everyone to

respect farm biosecurity hangs beside a door with a combination lock to con-trol access to the barns. Anyone wish-ing to enter needs to call either Van Engelen’s cell or home phone number, which are posted right on the sign. All other access points to the barns are locked.

SHOES AND BOOTS OFFOne of the most critical sources of

bringing disease in from outside is on boots and shoes, which is why every-one coming into the barns needs to leave their street footwear on rubber mats in the entry.

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New entry system reduces risks of disease on a Lambton County hog operation BY LOIS HARRIS

A wish list for new biosecurity measures

Ray Archuleta wants farmers to be-come “soil whisperers”.

“Your soil is naked, hungry, thirsty, and running a fever,” the North Carolina-based conservation agronomist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) told a packed room at the recent SoilSmart conference in Waterloo. “Science will never fix the problem. It has to be personal to you.”

It became personal to him some years ago working in Idaho when he began to question crop production’s tillage and input-heavy ap-proach. Farmers were spending lots of mon-ey but still “going broke”.

His advice wasn’t getting them anywhere. “I had the wrong premise. We need to farm in Nature’s image, not to control, to force, not to till, spray and fertilize, but to nurture it.”

The conventional approach is to look at soil health from the physical and the chemi-cal perspective, he says. The biological func-tion is often an afterthought. “It should be biological first, then the physical and chemi-cal. If we take biology out of the system we get geology.”

“The plant and the soil are one.” It’s a basic concept but “until you understand that your cover crop is as important as your main crop, you’ll never really understand it,” he says.

Archuleta compares a farmer who doesn’t understand the principles of soil function to a pilot who doesn’t understand aerodynam-ics. Nothing good can come of it.

The problem is that we look to technology to solve the problems, he said. But “is our sci-ence working? What have we learned in all

A soil water in�ltration demonstration (called a slake test) shows how healthy soil maintains its structure when immersed in water while degraded soil falls apart

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“Science will never fix the problem. It has to be personal to you.”

The soil whispererThe conventional approach is to look at soil health from the physical and the chemical perspective. The biological function is often an afterthought. That is wrong, says Ray Archuleta. By Peter Reschke

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4 ONTARIO BEEF FARMER FALL 2015

FACILITIES Lillian Schaer

A NEW ROOF over the livestock yard has changed Chad Anderson’s cow-calf farm.

The structure has resulted in better manure management on the 400-acre farm near Brigden, Ontario, reducing

both labour and the farm’s environmen-tal footprint. And the cattle are happier too.

Anderson has 120 cow calf pairs and about 30 replacement heifers on his farm, with half of his land in permanent

hay and pasture and the rest rotating between spring cereals, wheat and soybeans.

His barnyard was uncovered, leading to manure run-off when it rained. This created a messy, unpleasant environ-

Covered livestock yard improves cattle comfort while reducing

environmental footprint

Chad Anderson: he was able to secure cost-share support under the program’s best management practices (BMPs) for nutrient management for a 35 by 80 foot (10.66 x 24.38 m) roof structure that now covers a large portion of his yard.

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Ontario Dairy Farmer with its monthly coverage and reasonable deadline intervals, keeps abreast of production and technology topics throughout the year. On an ongoing basis magazine writers keep current with genetics, nutrition, animal care, facilities, crops and forage, business and accounting, research, milking and feeding systems, machinery and all other topics of interest to the dairy sector. Part of our coverage remains dedicated to getting out on to farms to keep current with what individual farmers are doing.

Ontario Hog Farmerwith its 8X a year coverage and reasonable deadline intervals, keeps abreast of production and technology topics throughout the year. On an ongoing basis magazine writers keep current with genetics, nutrition, animal care, facilities, business and accounting, marketing, research, machinery and all other topics of interest to the hog sector. Part of our coverage remains dedicated to getting out on to farms to keep current with what individual farmers are doing.

Western Dairy Farmerwith its 12X a year coverage and reasonable deadline intervals, keeps abreast of production and technology topics throughout the year in the Prairie provinces. On an ongoing basis magazine writers keep current with genetics, nutrition, animal care, facilities, crops and forage, business and accounting, research, milking and feeding systems, machinery and all other topics of interest to the dairy sector. Part of our coverage remains dedicated to getting out on to farms to keep current with what individual farmers are doing.

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