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A robotic sweeper with a yellow light on top moves down the alleyway in a dairy barn pushing the feed closer to the cattle on their pens on the side.
dairy, Livestock Management

Here’s a dairy lactation feed budget to consider for 2026

By using current prices for forages and other feeds and implementing some cost-cutting measures, I can draw a picture as to what it actually costs to feed a lactating dairy cow.
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Cows stand in some bedding in an outdoor pen.
Livestock Management

Vitamin A essential nutrient for overwintering beef cows

Gestating cows need more dietary vitamin A as they move throughout the winter and onto the last few months before calving.
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Livestock Management

Think about diets as calving looms just around the corner

Beef cows' bodies come with heavy nutrient demands during the February-March period

One would think the heavy nutrient demands on beef cows in February-March would result in a poor calving season — and if proper nutritious diets are fed at that time, one would be wrong, Peter Vitti writes.
March 1, 2026


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