Feeding family farm dreams
The best combination of lifestyle and performance.
Better communication, better teamwork, and better management
Burns Family Farms explains how Chase Cashell, their Cargill Dairy Focus Consultant, goes beyond formulating rations and takes responsibility as a part of the farm’s management team.
Daily electrolytes are an investment in the rumen
It was a little over a year and a half ago when Singing Brook Dairy decided to make concrete changes to their calf program. The 300-cow dairy found that there was too much inconsistency among calf health and performance, which ultimately down the road was affecting their lactating herd’s performance.
Second pair of eyes and hands
Parker says the first thing he and his Cargill nutritionist did was write down the goals for the herd. “Obviously the biggest goal was to increase production and along with that sustain 6.5 pounds of components, which seemed like a very difficult thing because we were just around 6 pounds at the time.”