Ongoing research

Adapted by Deanne Meyer, Livestock Waste Management Specialist, Department of Animal Science, Davis, CA Just a reminder. The Monitoring and Reporting Program for Existing Milk Cow Dairies (Central Valley) was modified in February.

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Adapted by Nyles G Peterson, UCCE San Bernardino Would you fly with a pilot who did not use a checklist?

Adapted by Bob Fry, State Conservation Agronomist & Gerald Higginbotham, UCCE Fresno & Madera The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has adopted a practice standard called Feed Management (592) and is defined as managing the quantity of available nutrients fed to livestock and poultry for...

Adapted by Noelia Silva-del-Ro, UCCE Tulare County The goal of silage face management is to minimize silage exposure to oxygen. In the presence of oxygen, yeast can metabolize lactic acid, a strong acid that keeps the silage pH low.

Adapted by Ed DePeters, UC Davis & Jennifer Heguy, UCCE Stanislaus & San Joaquin Counties Milk quality starts on the farm. The processing plant cannot improve the quality of your milk, but can only maintain the quality that you deliver.

Adapted by Deanne Meyer, Livestock Waste Management Specialist, Department of Animal Science, UC Davis With record rainfall in some areas of the Central Valley, it is important for producers to remember the additional monitoring and sampling requirements under the General Order for Existing Milk Cow...

Adapted by Gerald Higginbotham, UCCE Fresno/Madera County Methionine and lysine are two amino acids which have been suggested to be potentially limiting milk and milk component production by dairy cows.

Adapted by Alejandro R. Castillo, UCCE Merced County An on-farm survey was carried out on 40 commercial dairy farms in Merced County, California to study the effects of feed and feeding management variables on feed conversion (FC) and nitrogen utilization efficiency (NUE).

Adapted by Michael Payne, DVM, PhD. Program Director, CDQAP According to the current USDA data available in 2008 cull dairy cows accounted for just over 7% of all cattle slaughtered in the US, but were responsible for approximately 90% of carcasses in which drug residues were detected.