GENERAL MANAGEMENT

• Increasing Your Profiitability-- Food for Thought 
• Milk...Meat... and the Need for Permanent Records  
• Rate Your Dairy Feeding and Management Practices 
  
• What One Item Would You Change In Your Operation? 
  

NUTRITION for MILKING COWS

ADDITIVES:

• Rumensin Approved for Milking Cows  

Bunk Management / Managing Feed Intake:

• Importance of Feeding Behavior on Milk Production.
• Improving Dry Matter Intake.
• More Feed = More Milk. (ASC-135)

Byproducts:

• Comparative Pricing of Wet Byproducts.
• Pros and Cons of Feeding Wet By-Products-- Distillers Grains and Corn Gluten Feed 
  
• Using Byproducts to Feed Dairy Cattle. (ASC-136)

Diagnosing Nutritional Problems:

• Check to See If Your Cow's Feeding Program Is On Target  
• Critical Nutrition Areas Which Can Dramatically Affect Your Bottom Line 
  
• Common Nutrition and Management Problems 
  
• Good Management Practices Can Help Prevent Lameness 
  
• Healthy, Productive Cows Need Healthy Rumens
• Lameness and Hoof Trimming
• Milk Urea Nitrogen (MUN) - How Can You Utilize These Numbers?
• Milk Urea Nitrogen - A Nutritional Evaluation Tool?
• Practical Application…Where Theory Meets the Real World
  
• Resolving Nutritional Problems NEW
  
• Tools for Diagnosing Nutritional Problems in Dairy Herds.
• Why Cattle, Sheep and Goats Can Eat Forages? 

Fats:

• Should You Be Feeding Fat to Your Dairy Cows? (ASC-134)

Feeding and Management Practices:

• Accomplishing a Sound Dairy Nutrition Program.
• Allocating Time to Observe Your Cows Pays Dividends NEW
  
• Dairy Nutrition Strategies Once Forages Are Harvested.
• Designing Economical Dairy Nutrition Programs.
• Evaluate the Cost and Effectiveness of Your Dairy's Feeding Program.
• Profitable Feeding Programs for Dairy Cattle.
• Remember to Rebalance Your Ration When Switching Forages 
  
• The Magic Feed Potion 
  
• Traits of Successful Managers
• Tune-up Your Cow's Nutrition Program.
• Using the DART RATION Computer Program To Answer Nutrition Questions About Dairy Cattle.
• Which Ration Are Your Cows Getting 
  

Forages:

Corn Silage/Ensiling Other Crops

• Important Steps When Harvesting Corn Silage
  
• Drought Impact on Corn Yields 
  
• Harvesting Methods for Corn Silage Affect Performance
• Silo Face Management
  
• Using drought-stressed corn: Harvesting, storage, feeding, pricing and marketing. (ID-86)

Dealing with Forage Shortages

• Fall Feeding Decisions When Forages are Short.
• Forage Concerns Associated With Lower Forage Yields 
  
• Making the Most of Your Home-Grown Forages.
• Short Forage ... What to Do? Options Available Using an Example Herd.
• Short Quality Forages to Feed Milking Cows - Summertime Solutions

Determining Forage Needs

• Forage Acreage Governed by Yield and Quality Harvested.
• Planning the Yearly Forage & Commodity Needs for a Dairy Herd. (ASC-160)
• Winter Planning Can Lead to A Successful Spring Forage Harvest.

Evaluating Forage Quality

• Dealing With This Year's Lower Energy Forages.
• Forage Harvesting Decisions Determine Profits Next Year.
• Interpreting Forage Quality Reports (ID-101)
• Lower Quality Forages Presents Challenges.
• Maturity of Plants at Harvest Dictates Profitability 
  
• Spring  -- Time to Start Again--- Spring Forage Decisions Affect Profits for Year
  

Grazing Principles

• Grazing Basics 
  
• Keys to Effectively Graze Forages
  
• Pasture for Dairy Cattle: Challenges and Opportunities. (ASC-151)
• Rotate Pastures To Improve Milk Production and Heifer Growth.

Importance of forage - Particle Size on Health of the Milking Cow

• Laminitis in Dairy Cows.
• Normal Variation Expected in Butterfat Tests.
• Reduce Feet Problems Through Feeding.
• Subacute Acidosis.
• The Importance of Forage Particle Size on the Health of the Dairy Cow.
• Why Do Cattle Chew Their Cud?

Methods to Sample Forage

• Use a Hay Probe When Taking Hay Samples 
  

Purchasing Hay

• Considerations When Purchasing Hay for the Dairy Herd. (ID-138)
• Forage Myths are Costly
• Quality of Hay You Feed Affects Your Bottom Line.

Fresh Cows:

• Attention to Early Lactation Cows and Dry Cows Two Weeks Before Calving Pays Dividends.
• The Dry Period is the Key to Fresh Cow Management.

Grain Supplements:

• Balancing Rations For Dairy Cows Using Commercial Supplements. (ASC-139)
• Don't Buy a Grain Mix on Price Alone.

Heat Stress:

• Helping Your Cows Cope With Summer Heat Stress
  
• Prevent Heat Stress in Dry Cows Equals $$$ 
  
• Reducing Heat Stress Important - Modify Your Feeding Program Slightly.
• Re-evaluate Your Cows Summertime Feeding Program 
  
• Summertime Management Practices for Getting Dairy Cows to Milk 
  

High Feed Prices/Low Milk Prices:

• Cheaper Grain Bill Even With Higher Commodity Prices NEW
  
• Strategies for Dealing With High Feed Prices.
• Surviving the Dairy Economic Roller Coaster NEW
  

Impact of Facilities on Nutritional Program:

• Comfortable, Content Cows Give More Milk
  
• Overcrowding May Decrease Cud Chewing  

Minerals / Vitamins:

• Choosing a Mineral Supplement for Your Dairy Cows.
  
• Mineral Supplementation for Improved Immune Function.
• Mineral Feeding for Healthy Cows.
• Phosphorus Important for Optimum Milk Production and Reproduction 
• Using Nutrition to Improve Immunity against Disease in Dairy Cattle: Copper, Zinc, Selenium, and Vitamin E. (ASC-154)

Nutrition - Health

• Nutrition Impacts a Cow's Health 
  

Nutrition - Reproduction:

• Role of Nutrition on Reproductive Performance. (ASC-138)
  
• The Affects of Nutrition on Reproductive Performance.

Nutritional Management Options for More Income

• Cost-Cutting Tidbits 
  
• Develop Positive Relationships With Your Consultants  
• Dollar and Cents Suggestions for Improving Your Feeding Program
  
• Increasing Net Profits.
• Make the Best of This Spring's Weather 
  
• Replacing Lost Tobacco Income with More Cows or Raising Heifers or Hay
• Top 10 Checklist on Improving Your Nutritional Program
  

Protein:

Total Mixed Rations:

• Feeding Your Dairy Cow a Total Mixed Ration: Getting Started. (ID-141A)
• Managing the Total Mixed Ration to Prevent Problems in Dairy Cows. (ID-141B)

Water Availability:

• Water the Nutrient Often Taken For Granted 
  

NUTRITION for CALVES

Feeding / Management

• Baby Calves Need Water with Their Grain 
  
• Feeding & Managing Baby Calves from Birth to 3 Months of Age. (ASC-161)
• Cryptosporidiosis in Dairy Calves.
• Feeding and Managing Dairy Calves.
• Managing the Future of the Dairy Herd - Baby Calves

Colostrum

• Calf Research at the University of Kentucky.
• Colostrum Feeding for the Future of the Dairy Herd.

Housing

• Sorting Through Calf Housing Options.

NUTRITION for DRY COWS

Far-off Dry Cows

• Amount of Grain Fed Determined By Forages Fed.
• Attention to Feeding Programs for Dry Cows Pays Dividends.
• Dry Cows Need Different Light Cycles 
  
• Feeding and Managing the Far-Off Dry Cow. (ASC-156)
• Feeding and Managing the Far-off Dry Cow.
• Importance of a Far-Off Dry Cow Program.
• Prevent Heat Stress in Dry Cows Equals $$$ 
• Role of the Dry Period on Future Milk Production.
• Want to Improve Your Income by $450 More Per Cow 
  

Close-Up Dry Cows

• Close-Up Dry Cow Programs are Important.
• Merits of Close-Up Dry Cow Program.
• Merits of Feed Additives for the Transition Dairy Cow.
• Precalving Care Equals Postcalving Profit.

Minerals / Milk Fever

• Calculating Amount of Selenium to Add to Grain Mix.
• Potassium Content (not Calcium Content) of Forages Influences the Incidence of Milk Fever.
• Prevention of Milk Fever.
   

NUTRITION for HEIFERS

• Use Bovatec or Rumensin in Recently Weaned Heifer Grain Mixes 
  
• The Basics of Feeding Heifers Economically 
  
• Calculating Amount of Rumensin or Bovatec Supplement for Heifers.
• Common Pitfalls When Raising Young Dairy Heifers NEW
• Common Pitfalls In Heifer Raising Programs NEW    
  
• Dealing with Lower Quality Hay This Year: Test Forages Now and Feed the Correct Amount of Grain.
• Getting More From Your Grass When Raising Heifers
  
• Nutrition of Dairy Heifers Post-Weaning for Optimum Economical Growth.
• Old Wives' Tales Are Not Always True.
• Ten Do's and Don'ts of Raising Heifers.
• Watch Pasture Availability and Quality.