Nutrition Dairy Feed Efficiency

The Best Feed for the Best Dairy

Agri-King provides dairy producers with a personalized nutritional program that offers flexible solutions to improve herd profitability. Agri-King provides highly fortified products that perform in precisely balanced rations to achieve optimum herd health and performance. Agri-King provides balanced rations for all ages of dairy cattle.

  • Agri-King analyzes your feedstuffs regularly for nutrient content
  • We do not guess
  • We do not use average values
  • We only use facts to precisely balance your dairy rations to maximize your profits
Feed Efficiency

Feed efficiency isn’t a new concept for Agri-King; in fact we have been monitoring feed efficiency for over 15 years!  Simply stated, feed efficiency is pounds of milk produced per pound of dry matter (DM) consumed.  Feed efficiency is vital to reducing a farm’s environmental impact.  Making more milk with less waste is profitable and responsible.

Replace the test values in the left column to calculate your feed efficiency.

Enter Amounts

Totals
Number of Cows in Herd Current Cost per lb of Feed (dry) $
Current Milk Production (lbs/hd/day) Current Feed Efficiency (Milk/DMI)
Current Dry Matter Intake (lbs/hd/day) Feed Cost per CWT of Milk $
Total Feed Cost per Head per Day $

Enter Desired Amounts

Totals
Milk Price per CWT $ Total Feed Cost per Head per Day $
Desired Milk Production (lbs/hd/day) Cost per lb of Feed (dry) $
Desired Dry Matter Intake (lbs/hd/day) Feed Efficiency (Milk/DMI)
Feed Cost per CWT of Milk $

Net Yearly Changes
Per Cow Herd
Milk Production (Pounds)
Income $ $
Feed Expense $ $
Income Over Feed Cost $ $

How do you improve feed efficiency?

  • Manage forages to maximize quality
  • Treat forages with Silo-King® (research demonstrates that treating forages with Silo-King® significantly increases dry matter and fiber digestibility)
  • Further improve ration digestibility with trace minerals (A-K Dairy Fortifier Premium), direct fed microbials (Tri-Lution®), and enzymes (Ru-Max and Zym-O-Factors)
  • Test forages for dry matter and fiber digestibility (testing for both dry matter and cell wall digestibility are available at Agri-King)
  • Balance and fortify rations to fully utilize the nutrients from forages which improve feed efficiency and animal health.

Results from 400 herds demonstrated that greater forage quality (IVDMD) correlates with greater feed efficiency. These herds also shared several factors in addition to high quality forages, such as balanced rations, cow comfort, good herd health, and optimal feeding management.
 

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