It’s Time To Think About Retesting Your Silage!
Silage continues to change during the fermentation process and this in turn changes the nutritional content. It might be time to think about Retesting Your Silage so that you can…
Posts by Neville Janke
On Farm Stored Grain Testing
With a bumper grain harvest this year and the continuing growth of on farm stored grain. It’s becoming increasingly more important to know what the nutritional value is of your…
Where Do Our Feed Testing Calibrations Come From?
Feed Central is affiliated with Dairy One. Dairy One is a farmer owned cooperative that is based in the USA and was established in 1974. It is governed by a…
DCAD Is Important For Dairy Cows
Dietary cation-anion difference, also known as DCAD, is an important measure that is used when formulating diets for dry, transition and lactating dairy cows. The calculation for this measurement is…
Cow & Pig Feed Tests
Did you know that cows and pigs have different ways of digesting the food that they eat? Cows and sheep are known as ruminants which means that they have four…
Monitoring Your Carbohydrate Content To Maximise Milk Solid Production
Plant carbohydrates in the diet play a very important role in the production of milk solids and in particular milk fat production. There are two forms of plant carbohydrates in…
Achieve Optimum Production Efficiency With A TMR!
Total mixed rations or TMR’s are an ideal feeding method which allows you to provide proper nutrition to achieve optimum production efficiency. It involves combining forage such as hay or…
Feed Testing GOPRO
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Mark Chambers Organic Oaten Hay Farm
The Feed Central team members Tim Ford, Jim Watson and Madeleine Alexander headed out to Mark Chambers Organic Oaten Hay Farm in Marong VIC Australia. Here’s a quick video of…
Making Hay? If Yes – You Need To Read This
Here are 4 things not to forget when making hay this season! BALE WEIGHTS Are you paying your contractor per tonne or per bale? Did you know that Heavy bales…