Jun 19

Maximizing the Inclusion of Forage in Rations

Categories: Agriculture, Animal Nutrition, Dairy Cows
Maximizing the Inclusion of Forage in Rations

Feeding animals high rates of forage is an opportunity that many farms should consider. Those diets aim to take advantage of the cow’s biological ability to convert ingested fibre into high value products such as milk or meat. Both the quality and quantity of supplied forage are closely related to milk production, production costs and farms profits. In some herds, the process required to implement the model may take years because of the changes to be carried out in the productive structure of the farm.

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Jun 19

Should Cows Tweet?

Categories: Alltech Symposium, Dairy Cows
Should Cows Tweet?

Interview with Greg Wickham

Greg Wickham is chief executive officer of Dairylea Cooperative Inc., a $1.2 billion milk marketing cooperative that offers farm services to farmers, including buying, lending, risk management and insurance.

No, of course not. Cows don’t have opposable thumbs, or fingers for that matter. Let alone… well, never mind.

Yet the fact still stands that the dairy industry must find new ways to tell its story. Since 1970, the demand for dairy in the US has been in constant decline and increased governmental regulations have compounded the difficulty of reaching a growingly disconnected consumer base.

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Jun 19

Are All the Pigs Going to China?

Categories: Ag Future, Alltech Symposium, Alltech Worldwide, Pig, Pigs, Swine
Are All the Pigs Going to China?

Interview with Henry Van De Velde from HyLife

HyLife Foods is a federally certified, modern pork processing facility located in Neepawa, Manitoba. They are currently the largest hog production company in Canada and is among the top 15 in North America.

A few weeks ago, Chinese meat processing giant, Shuanghui International, made an agreement to purchase Smithfield Foods, one of the largest pork producers in the US. The price tag on the deal was a whopping $4.7 billion dollars, making it the largest takeover of an American company by a Chinese company to date, pending the purchase is approved.

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Jun 14

2012 Alltech Invitational Champ Debuts at This Week’s U.S. Open

Categories: About Alltech, Alltech Worldwide
2012 Alltech Invitational Champ Debuts at This Week’s U.S. Open Brandon Brown winner of 2012 Alltech Invitational

This week, Kentuckian Brandon Brown teed off with some of golf’s greatest legends at his first U.S. Open Tournament at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa. But before joining the company of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, Brown was clutching championships in his own backyard. Hot off his championship at last year’s Alltech Invitational at Connemara Golf Course in Nicholasville, Ky., Brown soon graduated to higher rankings in the world of golf, making his debut on the PGA Tour in 2013.

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