00;00;11;03 - 00;00;15;10 Brad And welcome to The Moos Room. A nice snowy. 00;00;15;10 - 00;00;16;04 Brad Day here. 00;00;16;07 - 00;00;24;13 Brad In Minnesota. The last few days over Thanksgiving weekend. We've kind of had a lot of snow here. Five, six, some places, ten inches of snow. 00;00;24;13 - 00;00;28;14 Brad So winter is upon us here in the upper Midwest. 00;00;28;16 - 00;00;30;06 Brad I think Iowa's getting. 00;00;30;08 - 00;00;31;04 Brad Braced for. 00;00;31;04 - 00;00;33;04 Brad A lot of snow right now. So a lot. 00;00;33;04 - 00;00;36;16 Brad Of us are are deep into winter, or at least winter is starting. 00;00;36;16 - 00;00;39;15 Brad And trying to manage everything that comes along with. 00;00;39;21 - 00;00;41;12 Brad Winter time and winter time. 00;00;41;12 - 00;00;57;14 Brad Feeding of cows and calves and everything like that. But I wanted to kind of talk about some of the things that I've been thinking about here lately, from a nutrition standpoint and a management standpoint, and kind of. 00;00;57;17 - 00;00;58;09 Brad Where we're going. 00;00;58;09 - 00;01;08;00 Brad And I hope to see maybe what we'll fix in our herd. I think it's been bugging me for a while. Doesn't seem to be that our. 00;01;08;00 - 00;01;10;20 Brad Cows can really milk, or. 00;01;10;22 - 00;01;16;09 Brad What's not getting the production out of the cows, that I think that we can and I think that we've seen in. 00;01;16;09 - 00;01;18;10 Brad The past, you know, maybe our herds 40 or. 00;01;18;10 - 00;01;28;21 Brad 50 pounds milk. I yes, I think some people are like, oh, well that's a low input strategy. And we don't necessarily push our cows, but I think we can get. 00;01;28;24 - 00;01;30;03 Brad More than 40 or 50. 00;01;30;03 - 00;01;33;22 Brad Pounds out of our cows without really trying much. 00;01;33;22 - 00;01;34;23 Brad In October we had. 00;01;34;25 - 00;01;40;01 Brad Holstein association classification, so the classifier comes out and. 00;01;40;04 - 00;01;40;19 Brad Scores. 00;01;40;19 - 00;01;44;19 Brad All of our Holstein cows. And it was mid-October. 00;01;44;19 - 00;01;47;16 Brad This year and I was there for it. 00;01;47;18 - 00;01;52;25 Brad Because I always like to be there for classification day. It's always fun to look at cows and see what. 00;01;52;25 - 00;01;53;19 Brad They're going to score. 00;01;53;19 - 00;02;07;00 Brad We do have some high scoring cows in our herd, some 86 point cows. There's a few 87 points, a few 88 point cows. And we do have 190 point cow, maybe not something that you would expect maybe from a. 00;02;07;00 - 00;02;12;22 Brad University type herd, but we do pretty good. You know, we're not a high type herd. I certainly don't select for. 00;02;12;25 - 00;02;14;17 Brad A lot of high. 00;02;14;20 - 00;02;15;29 Brad Sires. 00;02;16;01 - 00;02;16;17 Brad But. 00;02;16;19 - 00;02;17;11 Brad We hold our own. 00;02;17;11 - 00;02;18;01 Brad In the type. 00;02;18;01 - 00;02;19;02 Brad Category. We have good. 00;02;19;02 - 00;02;21;17 Brad Functional type, I shouldn't say, but. 00;02;21;19 - 00;02;23;09 Brad When the cows were coming up for. 00;02;23;11 - 00;02;27;14 Brad Classification that morning, I kind of was looking at them. I'm like, these cows have. 00;02;27;14 - 00;02;28;24 Brad No milk in their udders. They're not. 00;02;28;24 - 00;02;34;01 Brad Full. You know what is happening? They these cows should be so. 00;02;34;01 - 00;02;34;28 Brad Much more. 00;02;34;28 - 00;02;38;21 Brad Full and more production in them. You know, they've been milked. 00;02;38;21 - 00;02;39;24 Brad 12 hours ago and it. 00;02;39;24 - 00;02;46;12 Brad Just I got the appearance that they just didn't have any milk in them and kind of went on and you know, I. 00;02;46;12 - 00;02;47;14 Brad Went to Germany after. 00;02;47;14 - 00;02;56;03 Brad That. So I hadn't decided to kind of figure out what was going on. So I started looking at some data from a herd. You know, when I was in. 00;02;56;03 - 00;02;57;03 Brad Savannah, Georgia, I was. 00;02;57;03 - 00;03;01;05 Brad Speaking at the Dsm's annual meeting. 00;03;01;08 - 00;03;01;17 Brad And they were. 00;03;01;17 - 00;03;05;03 Brad Showcasing some other things, and we were kind of going through some case studies on. 00;03;05;06 - 00;03;05;17 Brad And we were. 00;03;05;17 - 00;03;06;25 Brad Going through. 00;03;06;28 - 00;03;10;13 Brad Dairy Depo, which is in their herd HQ platform, and. 00;03;10;16 - 00;03;14;04 Brad Kind of can give you a pretty good overview of what's. 00;03;14;04 - 00;03;15;22 Brad Happening in the herd. 00;03;15;24 - 00;03;17;00 Brad Anyways. So I started looking. 00;03;17;00 - 00;03;17;25 Brad At our herd. 00;03;17;28 - 00;03;23;11 Brad And by some of the things we were kind of walking through some case studies and everybody was able to look at. 00;03;23;11 - 00;03;26;22 Brad Certain herds, or if it was your own herd, you could. 00;03;26;25 - 00;03;28;09 Brad Look at that as well. So I kind of. 00;03;28;09 - 00;03;28;24 Brad Started. 00;03;28;24 - 00;03;51;08 Brad Looking at some of these graphs and what what is it telling me? So if I look at production level I kind of calving month, you know, I hate to say some. Sometimes when the cows are calving, they're producing 60 or 70% of what they should be predicted to produce. So based on that, our cows, you know, even this last September here. 00;03;51;10 - 00;03;53;25 Brad Cows are probably producing 30%. 00;03;53;25 - 00;03;55;03 Brad Less. 00;03;55;05 - 00;03;57;18 Brad Than what they're predicted to produce. 00;03;57;21 - 00;03;59;25 Brad Which is kind of crazy. That's a lot. 00;03;59;25 - 00;04;00;26 Brad Of milk we're leaving on the. 00;04;00;26 - 00;04;01;19 Brad Table. 00;04;01;22 - 00;04;03;02 Brad And that's some first lactation cows. 00;04;03;02 - 00;04;08;14 Brad If you kind of look at the second lactation cows, you see about the same thing, maybe not quite as drastic, but. 00;04;08;17 - 00;04;09;25 Brad 80%. 00;04;09;27 - 00;04;12;22 Brad Of what they should be producing. The third lactation. 00;04;12;22 - 00;04;15;28 Brad Cows are more. We're doing pretty good in the early spring, but. 00;04;16;00 - 00;04;17;11 Brad Kind of fall in that. 00;04;17;14 - 00;04;19;12 Brad 80% of what they're predicted. 00;04;19;12 - 00;04;20;27 Brad To produce. So kind of. 00;04;20;27 - 00;04;22;16 Brad On average, our cows are. 00;04;22;18 - 00;04;45;07 Brad Maybe producing 20 to 30% less than really what they should be, which is kind of crazy for me, trying to figure out what's going on and looking at, you know, the data speaks and it shows just not getting milk out of our cows. I kind of also looked at a few things. You know, we keep a lot of health data on our cows and to see what was happening. 00;04;45;10 - 00;04;46;00 Brad And if. 00;04;46;00 - 00;04;47;00 Brad You look at the first lactation. 00;04;47;00 - 00;04;56;00 Brad Cows probably look at all the cows. But we kind of have a transition cow problem as well. Cows are getting ketosis. They're getting metrics. They're getting retained placentas in. 00;04;56;00 - 00;04;56;29 Brad The first 30 days. 00;04;56;29 - 00;05;10;17 Brad In lactation. And usually that's an indication of something that's going on nutritionally. Maybe the mastitis. We can that's another point of debate in the different day. But some of these metabolic issues, especially. 00;05;10;17 - 00;05;12;04 Brad In first lactation cows, we're seeing. 00;05;12;04 - 00;05;13;12 Brad A lot of Metroid US and. 00;05;13;12 - 00;05;14;09 Brad Ketosis in first. 00;05;14;09 - 00;05;20;02 Brad Lactation cows. I shouldn't expect to see really. You know, first, lactation cows. 00;05;20;05 - 00;05;22;11 Brad Have a lot of try this problems. 00;05;22;13 - 00;05;32;21 Brad So it kind of got me thinking while I was abroad, I need to do something. I need to figure this out. It's kind of bugging me. I think we're leaving a lot of money on the table. 00;05;32;23 - 00;05;34;12 Brad Especially from our herd. 00;05;34;14 - 00;05;36;15 Brad Any any which way we can do. 00;05;36;15 - 00;05;37;13 Brad To create more. 00;05;37;13 - 00;05;46;26 Brad Revenue is is good. So I contacted another nutrition company and said I, I would like for you to come out. I want to get some. 00;05;46;26 - 00;05;48;07 Brad Different eyes on our dairy. 00;05;48;07 - 00;05;49;18 Brad To kind of see what's going. 00;05;49;18 - 00;05;51;23 Brad On in our herd and see if there's anything. 00;05;51;23 - 00;05;55;02 Brad That that we can really solve. So they came out last week. 00;05;55;04 - 00;05;56;16 Brad You know, were we work with the. 00;05;56;16 - 00;05;59;03 Brad Nutritionist maybe necessarily doesn't. 00;05;59;03 - 00;06;02;19 Brad Show up very often. Are the rations. 00;06;02;22 - 00;06;04;26 Brad Balance? I don't know. 00;06;04;26 - 00;06;06;12 Brad They're put through a ration. 00;06;06;12 - 00;06;07;25 Brad Program, but I'm. 00;06;07;25 - 00;06;09;02 Brad Not sure if we're. 00;06;09;03 - 00;06;12;27 Brad Utilizing that to the ways that we should be. We don't have a lot of additives. 00;06;12;27 - 00;06;13;23 Brad In our our. 00;06;13;23 - 00;06;17;03 Brad Feed. We have rumen medicine, which I'm not necessarily. 00;06;17;03 - 00;06;18;20 Brad Sure that that's really working. 00;06;18;23 - 00;06;20;25 Brad There's bio-rad, which is. 00;06;20;25 - 00;06;21;29 Brad A different supplemental. 00;06;21;29 - 00;06;27;12 Brad Product in there. We also use integral A, which is a micro toxin binder. 00;06;27;12 - 00;06;30;08 Brad So for some corn silage problems. 00;06;30;08 - 00;06;31;08 Brad That we had. 00;06;31;10 - 00;06;32;21 Brad Earlier this summer where we were. 00;06;32;21 - 00;06;33;05 Brad Causing. 00;06;33;05 - 00;06;33;24 Brad Abortions. 00;06;33;24 - 00;06;36;05 Brad In the animals, but I'm not sure that some of these. 00;06;36;05 - 00;06;40;22 Brad Supplements are actually working in our our feeding program. 00;06;40;24 - 00;06;43;28 Brad And I need to figure this out nutritionally because. 00;06;44;01 - 00;06;45;05 Brad We're losing production. 00;06;45;12 - 00;06;50;27 Brad We got transmission cow problems, health problems, and early lactation. And I got to solve it. 00;06;50;29 - 00;06;52;02 Brad Our cows will be much healthier. 00;06;52;02 - 00;06;55;16 Brad If I do so as nutrition company came out and. 00;06;55;22 - 00;06;56;21 Brad We walked around the. 00;06;56;21 - 00;06;58;05 Brad Farm and kind of. 00;06;58;05 - 00;06;58;27 Brad Found some different. 00;06;58;27 - 00;07;00;17 Brad Things and. 00;07;00;20 - 00;07;02;08 Brad See where where are we going to. 00;07;02;08 - 00;07;07;20 Brad Go. So we'll kind of run down a few of the things. So we we kind of made a loop around. 00;07;07;22 - 00;07;08;01 Brad Where our. 00;07;08;01 - 00;07;10;12 Brad Milking facility is kind of in front of that. 00;07;10;15 - 00;07;11;22 Brad There were some. 00;07;11;24 - 00;07;14;13 Brad Dry cows, and in the next pen. 00;07;14;13 - 00;07;20;28 Brad Over, there were some breeding age heifers that we're going to start breeding this winter. So they're 14 month old heifers. And we kind. 00;07;20;28 - 00;07;21;16 Brad Of looked at those. 00;07;21;16 - 00;07;22;29 Brad 14 month old heifers and went. 00;07;23;05 - 00;07;24;25 Brad Oh, they're kind of fat. 00;07;24;25 - 00;07;28;19 Brad So maybe we're overfeeding our young stock. 00;07;28;21 - 00;07;30;01 Brad Not having the. 00;07;30;01 - 00;07;31;25 Brad Correct ration. 00;07;31;28 - 00;07;43;00 Brad There's maybe issues with, employees looking at the feed bunk and going, oh, the the feed bunk is empty. Let's jack the feed up and they need to be full. And then they come back next day and the feed bunk is empty and they're like, oh, well, in these. 00;07;43;05 - 00;07;44;01 Brad Heifers are really eating. 00;07;44;01 - 00;07;49;01 Brad We need to keep increasing the amount that's fed. And that's probably not good either. 00;07;49;07 - 00;07;50;13 Brad Probably one of the first things that we. 00;07;50;13 - 00;07;51;23 Brad Notice is. 00;07;51;25 - 00;07;52;11 Brad Our heifers. 00;07;52;11 - 00;07;57;08 Brad Maybe a little too fat at 12 months of age. So hopefully we can correct that with the. 00;07;57;08 - 00;07;57;16 Brad Proper. 00;07;57;16 - 00;07;59;02 Brad Nutrition and. 00;07;59;05 - 00;07;59;16 Brad Proper. 00;07;59;16 - 00;08;07;00 Brad Employee training. Diet management kind of looked at the dry cows. You know, the dry cows looked okay. Nothing that looked. 00;08;07;00 - 00;08;08;01 Brad Out of the ordinary. 00;08;08;07 - 00;08;12;03 Brad We walked to our calves. One of the things that we talked about specifically with. 00;08;12;03 - 00;08;13;19 Brad Our calves were. 00;08;13;21 - 00;08;14;11 Brad We feed a lot of. 00;08;14;11 - 00;08;18;25 Brad Milk here. So we're ten liters of milk per per calf per day. 00;08;18;28 - 00;08;25;23 Brad The calves look good. They really do. They're doing well. We don't have many health problems. We've had a few this fall, but not. 00;08;25;23 - 00;08;26;29 Brad Very many. 00;08;27;01 - 00;08;29;02 Brad But they eat a lot. 00;08;29;04 - 00;08;32;26 Brad They gain very well. Most of our heifers are doing well over. 00;08;32;26 - 00;08;39;25 Brad 2 pounds a day. And one of the nutritionist looked at me and kind of said, you probably have weaning problems, don't you? 00;08;39;25 - 00;08;43;07 Brad Or do they crash and burn after weaning? And of course, I. 00;08;43;07 - 00;08;53;13 Brad Admit they do. We we don't properly have a transition from high milk levels to solid feed. So they. 00;08;53;15 - 00;08;55;07 Brad These heifers crash and burn. 00;08;55;09 - 00;09;06;19 Brad At 12 weeks of age. You know, we're weaning at 12 weeks. It's kind of like, yep, you have to do that if you're at high levels of milk. But most of the time we see. 00;09;06;22 - 00;09;08;11 Brad Heifers just crash and burn. And after. 00;09;08;11 - 00;09;11;19 Brad That, because they're not adequately eating the amount. 00;09;11;19 - 00;09;13;04 Brad Of grain or forage that they. 00;09;13;04 - 00;09;21;16 Brad Should to actually have a good transition from weaning into solid feed. So hopefully we'll correct that. He's like, we could probably shave off. 00;09;21;16 - 00;09;23;01 Brad 30 days from your weaning period. 00;09;23;01 - 00;09;24;13 Brad If we get the calves eating. 00;09;24;16 - 00;09;26;27 Brad Good grain, good starter. 00;09;27;00 - 00;09;30;10 Brad Maybe not feed so much milk, we will maybe be at eight liters. 00;09;30;10 - 00;09;30;24 Brad So we're still. 00;09;30;24 - 00;09;32;03 Brad Going to feed a high level milk. 00;09;32;03 - 00;09;34;06 Brad But we certainly I'm looking forward to not. 00;09;34;06 - 00;09;35;13 Brad Having, 00;09;35;16 - 00;09;39;13 Brad 12 week old heifers crash and burn and not doing very well. 00;09;39;13 - 00;09;41;09 Brad And taking a long time to get back. 00;09;41;09 - 00;09;41;22 Brad To where they. 00;09;41;22 - 00;09;46;01 Brad Should be, because we fed too much milk and didn't kind of have this transition. 00;09;46;01 - 00;09;47;09 Brad Period for those. 00;09;47;09 - 00;09;50;17 Brad Animals. And we'll probably have a different transition. 00;09;50;17 - 00;09;51;00 Brad Period. 00;09;51;00 - 00;09;57;15 Brad A different way of weaning the calves as well. To change that. And hopefully that will pay off dividends. 00;09;57;18 - 00;09;59;24 Brad As our heifers get older and. 00;09;59;26 - 00;10;05;26 Brad Maybe they won't be so fat when we get to breeding age as well. Then we walk through our lactating cow herds. 00;10;05;28 - 00;10;07;18 Brad Both organic. 00;10;07;21 - 00;10;08;21 Brad Cows, in a. 00;10;08;21 - 00;10;10;29 Brad Compost barn. It's winter time, so they're. 00;10;11;01 - 00;10;13;10 Brad In a confinement system. Not as much. 00;10;13;10 - 00;10;14;02 Brad Grain. 00;10;14;05 - 00;10;25;12 Brad In those rations as well. You know, cows look good. Body condition. Okay. Fertility could be a lot better. We've had some fertility issues here, this past summer, so maybe. 00;10;25;12 - 00;10;27;01 Brad The rations aren't balanced. 00;10;27;01 - 00;10;43;00 Brad As well. For these cows, we're kind of changing a lot of feedstuffs because of availability of different things. But maybe there's some things that we can add into the rations. When we specifically went into the conventional herd, into the dry lot. 00;10;43;02 - 00;10;43;24 Brad Looked around at the. 00;10;43;24 - 00;10;45;27 Brad Cows, nutritionist was like, there's. 00;10;45;27 - 00;10;46;28 Brad A lot of corn going through. 00;10;47;04 - 00;10;52;12 Brad These cows. I can see it in the ration, so that's not good. 00;10;52;15 - 00;10;53;24 Brad You're wasting a lot of corn. 00;10;53;29 - 00;10;59;08 Brad I can see lots of specks in the ration. They're not digesting it. Well, it's like. 00;10;59;11 - 00;11;00;16 Brad I want to look at your hammer mill. 00;11;00;17 - 00;11;00;28 Brad See what's. 00;11;00;28 - 00;11;01;27 Brad Going on there. 00;11;01;29 - 00;11;10;08 Brad I have a feeling, but we need to check this out. That was probably one of the biggest things that we saw in those cows. A lot of. 00;11;10;11 - 00;11;10;27 Brad Kind of corn. 00;11;10;27 - 00;11;18;27 Brad Going through the ration. So we looked at the cows and body condition looks pretty good. We kind of go back, look at our hammer mill in both the conventional. 00;11;18;27 - 00;11;19;12 Brad And our. 00;11;19;12 - 00;11;23;24 Brad Organic hammer mills, and we opened up the conventional one screens. 00;11;23;24 - 00;11;26;10 Brad Not small enough. We're not grinding the corn. 00;11;26;13 - 00;11;27;04 Brad Fine enough. 00;11;27;10 - 00;11;29;09 Brad For the cows. We're not hammering it enough. 00;11;29;12 - 00;11;30;26 Brad So we need to change our screens. 00;11;30;26 - 00;11;31;20 Brad He's like, you're probably. 00;11;31;20 - 00;11;32;16 Brad Wasting 2 to 3. 00;11;32;16 - 00;11;36;14 Brad Pounds of corn per cow in our conventional ration. 00;11;36;17 - 00;11;44;18 Brad So we need to put a smaller screen so we can grind that up and get a better idea of what's going on in those cows. 00;11;44;25 - 00;11;46;00 Brad Do some manure screens. 00;11;46;00 - 00;11;50;02 Brad After the change and see what happens. You said we could probably save money because. 00;11;50;02 - 00;11;50;25 Brad We're not corn, not. 00;11;50;25 - 00;11;54;12 Brad Going just absolutely through those cows and being a waste. And we open up. 00;11;54;12 - 00;11;59;08 Brad The organic hammer mill. The screen was even bigger than what it was in the corn conventional herd. 00;11;59;11 - 00;12;01;19 Brad So yeah, there's some management things that we got to take. 00;12;01;19 - 00;12;02;29 Brad Care of on our hammer. 00;12;02;29 - 00;12;03;29 Brad Mills. We've got to put. 00;12;03;29 - 00;12;05;00 Brad Smaller screens in there. 00;12;05;00 - 00;12;06;29 Brad So we grind up the. 00;12;06;29 - 00;12;08;22 Brad Corn, get the starch more available. 00;12;08;22 - 00;12;13;06 Brad To those cows and see what's happening. Then we kind of went back and decided, well. 00;12;13;06 - 00;12;14;00 Brad We're going to take some forward. 00;12;14;00 - 00;12;22;08 Brad Samples. Corn silage haulage. We have some oats and peas mix. They took some samples of corn. 00;12;22;11 - 00;12;22;27 Brad Our grain. 00;12;22;27 - 00;12;29;28 Brad Mixes to kind of see, see what we can do. I, I gave the nutritionist the. 00;12;30;01 - 00;12;33;12 Brad Rations that we're feeding our conventional herds. 00;12;33;16 - 00;12;34;18 Brad Eating 50 pounds of. 00;12;34;18 - 00;12;36;22 Brad Dry matter. He's like, I don't understand. 00;12;36;22 - 00;12;42;22 Brad You're feeding 50 pounds of dry matter and not getting much milk out of these cows. Something by having this much dry. 00;12;42;22 - 00;12;43;06 Brad Matter in your. 00;12;43;06 - 00;12;46;18 Brad Cows, you should be getting a lot more milk than what you should. Basically, we should be getting 70. 00;12;46;18 - 00;12;47;26 Brad Pounds out of our cows. 00;12;47;28 - 00;12;48;06 Brad By. 00;12;48;06 - 00;12;50;17 Brad The amount of dry matter that we're feeding them, and we're getting. 00;12;50;17 - 00;12;51;16 Brad 50. 00;12;51;18 - 00;12;52;03 Brad So we're leaving. 00;12;52;03 - 00;12;53;04 Brad 20 pounds of milk on the. 00;12;53;04 - 00;12;54;12 Brad Table somewhere. 00;12;54;14 - 00;12;57;03 Brad That's a lot. That's a lot of money. Another thing we we. 00;12;57;03 - 00;12;59;07 Brad Looked at our BMR. 00;12;59;09 - 00;13;14;00 Brad Rations and we looked at our silage piles. One of the questions was do we have a silage facer? The answer is no, we don't have one. We probably should. So that's one thing that I'm certainly going to look for. It help improve the consistency of. 00;13;14;00 - 00;13;15;01 Brad Our corn silage. 00;13;15;01 - 00;13;17;28 Brad At least our corn silage, and not have. 00;13;17;28 - 00;13;21;28 Brad As much shrink or wastage in our corn silage for the 3 or $4000. 00;13;21;28 - 00;13;30;11 Brad That it's going to cost to get a silage facer. So one thing we'll probably invest in that as well to help this, and probably the other question is that they had for me was when was the last time you. 00;13;30;11 - 00;13;32;01 Brad Had a TMR audit in your herd? 00;13;32;01 - 00;13;34;18 Brad Like, not since I've. 00;13;34;18 - 00;13;36;29 Brad Been here, which is well over ten years. And so we're. 00;13;36;29 - 00;13;37;19 Brad Probably going to have. 00;13;37;19 - 00;13;42;17 Brad A TMR audit done in our herd to figure out what what's going on. If you're not familiar with those TMR audits. 00;13;42;17 - 00;13;44;02 Brad What do they do while they evaluate. 00;13;44;02 - 00;13;44;14 Brad Forage. 00;13;44;14 - 00;13;47;07 Brad Quality? They evaluate. 00;13;47;09 - 00;13;49;09 Brad Bunker management or. 00;13;49;12 - 00;13;55;25 Brad Feed pile management. They evaluate shrink their load preparation. So how do we load feeds? 00;13;55;28 - 00;13;56;17 Brad What feeds are. 00;13;56;17 - 00;13;57;11 Brad Reloading into the. 00;13;57;11 - 00;13;57;24 Brad Team? 00;13;57;25 - 00;14;01;24 Brad Our mixer you know, can we should we switch those things. Should we have the. 00;14;01;24 - 00;14;02;25 Brad Corn first or should we. 00;14;02;25 - 00;14;03;23 Brad Have the hail. 00;14;03;27 - 00;14;04;18 Brad First or what. 00;14;04;18 - 00;14;06;23 Brad What ingredient should we add first? 00;14;06;23 - 00;14;09;05 Brad What about refusals? How do we measure. 00;14;09;05 - 00;14;10;06 Brad Refusals. 00;14;10;09 - 00;14;10;29 Brad Or what are we. 00;14;10;29 - 00;14;13;13 Brad Actually feeding to? Refusals? 00;14;13;15 - 00;14;14;06 Brad Feed delivery. 00;14;14;06 - 00;14;14;29 Brad Times? No. 00;14;14;29 - 00;14;16;00 Brad How? How are we feeding. 00;14;16;00 - 00;14;23;07 Brad Those cows and ration consistency? I think overall the this TMR audit I hope will improve. 00;14;23;07 - 00;14;23;22 Brad TMR. 00;14;23;22 - 00;14;27;01 Brad Consistency, reduce, shrink and improve. 00;14;27;01 - 00;14;28;06 Brad Our herd performance. 00;14;28;06 - 00;14;31;20 Brad And feed efficiency. That's probably one of the good things that. 00;14;31;27 - 00;14;33;23 Brad We're trying to figure out. 00;14;33;25 - 00;14;35;16 Brad You know, how do we process our. 00;14;35;16 - 00;14;36;00 Brad Forage. 00;14;36;00 - 00;14;40;21 Brad Quality. If you if you look at a a lot of TMR audits. 00;14;40;28 - 00;14;41;11 Brad Forage. 00;14;41;11 - 00;14;43;11 Brad Quality is probably one of the big things. 00;14;43;13 - 00;14;45;03 Brad You know, what are the silage temperatures. 00;14;45;03 - 00;14;47;12 Brad Hower how well is it packed. What is. 00;14;47;12 - 00;14;48;03 Brad The particle. 00;14;48;03 - 00;14;52;01 Brad Size. What is the face management goal of our herd? 00;14;52;03 - 00;14;55;14 Brad We really want to reduce spoiled silage. 00;14;55;16 - 00;14;56;05 Brad Basically we. 00;14;56;05 - 00;14;57;09 Brad Only want to remove enough. 00;14;57;09 - 00;14;59;05 Brad Silage to avoid heating. 00;14;59;08 - 00;15;00;16 Brad In. In our pile. 00;15;00;22 - 00;15;04;18 Brad We have a big silage pile. And it can be a problem without a silage. 00;15;04;18 - 00;15;05;23 Brad Face or. 00;15;05;25 - 00;15;10;28 Brad So. Basically, we don't want to have any loose silage at the end of the feeding. We only want to take out as. 00;15;10;28 - 00;15;12;00 Brad Much as what we're using. 00;15;12;00 - 00;15;14;04 Brad And sometimes it's. 00;15;14;04 - 00;15;15;17 Brad Guilty here as well. 00;15;15;19 - 00;15;21;23 Brad We cut way too much plastic off our pile, and too much spoiled silage is. 00;15;21;25 - 00;15;25;08 Brad There for heating or whatever might happen. So we're really. 00;15;25;08 - 00;15;35;09 Brad Going to try to, remove the silage face heating and, and do that with a facer. I think that's probably what. 00;15;35;09 - 00;15;35;20 Brad We're going to. 00;15;35;20 - 00;15;38;04 Brad Go to and see. A lot of the. 00;15;38;04 - 00;15;39;02 Brad Good herds are doing. 00;15;39;02 - 00;15;44;09 Brad That. Obviously we're not. I think we need to move that way. One of the things is trying. 00;15;44;09 - 00;15;45;12 Brad To reduce variation. 00;15;45;13 - 00;15;46;14 Brad Increasing load. 00;15;46;14 - 00;15;47;05 Brad Preparation. 00;15;47;05 - 00;15;51;15 Brad Speed. So how fast can we load the different silage is. 00;15;51;17 - 00;15;52;07 Brad Is there a different. 00;15;52;07 - 00;15;53;11 Brad Way that we need to load. 00;15;53;11 - 00;15;54;07 Brad The forages. 00;15;54;07 - 00;15;57;21 Brad And be able to consistently get the feed in to. 00;15;57;21 - 00;15;59;07 Brad The TMR mixer. 00;15;59;10 - 00;16;01;03 Brad To increase efficiency. 00;16;01;03 - 00;16;02;15 Brad Or decrease. 00;16;02;17 - 00;16;07;04 Brad Spoilage? Obviously we're going to be looking at load sizes. You know. 00;16;07;06 - 00;16;08;02 Brad Are they too big or. 00;16;08;02 - 00;16;09;13 Brad Are they too small? 00;16;09;16 - 00;16;11;02 Brad For our close up cows, for. 00;16;11;02 - 00;16;13;26 Brad Our lactating cows? And how do we. 00;16;13;29 - 00;16;14;17 Brad Determine the. 00;16;14;17 - 00;16;17;14 Brad Right side of loads that we can use? 00;16;17;20 - 00;16;20;09 Brad Ingredient mix, order. Probably one. 00;16;20;09 - 00;16;21;23 Brad Of the biggest things that. 00;16;21;25 - 00;16;23;03 Brad We need to work on. 00;16;23;06 - 00;16;24;17 Brad I can tell you that, you know, I. 00;16;24;19 - 00;16;25;06 Brad Observe a. 00;16;25;06 - 00;16;29;15 Brad Lot of these things, but it's always good to get different eyes. 00;16;29;20 - 00;16;31;09 Brad Out to your dairy farm. 00;16;31;16 - 00;16;37;01 Brad To be able to see this, because sometimes you don't see anything, everything. You know, I probably would have. 00;16;37;01 - 00;16;40;12 Brad Never figured out that the screens were wrong in our hammer mills. 00;16;40;12 - 00;16;42;25 Brad Without having the nutrition come out and go. 00;16;43;02 - 00;16;44;15 Brad Or some other person come out and. 00;16;44;15 - 00;16;52;12 Brad Go, I think you need to look at this. I think you need to look at this. You need to try these things and see what's going to happen. So I think that's a lot of the. 00;16;52;12 - 00;16;53;00 Brad Things that we're going. 00;16;53;00 - 00;16;55;11 Brad To do. It's it's it's a lot of things. It's a lot of. 00;16;55;11 - 00;16;56;14 Brad Changes that we're probably going. 00;16;56;14 - 00;16;59;05 Brad To do at a time. But I think it's. 00;16;59;05 - 00;17;02;09 Brad Important for, for our dairies, it's important for your dairies to. 00;17;02;09 - 00;17;05;07 Brad Look at these things, have somebody else come out, have some. 00;17;05;07 - 00;17;05;17 Brad Other. 00;17;05;17 - 00;17;06;22 Brad Eyes. 00;17;06;24 - 00;17;07;25 Brad On your dairy to see. 00;17;07;25 - 00;17;09;03 Brad What's going on. 00;17;09;05 - 00;17;13;24 Brad Whether it's veterinarian, whether it's another nutritionist, whether it's other farmers. 00;17;13;24 - 00;17;15;22 Brad They might notice something. 00;17;15;25 - 00;17;16;11 Brad That you're not. 00;17;16;11 - 00;17;28;17 Brad Noticing. You know, I just noticed from what I saw, the cows just weren't milking, you know, look at the data. Cows aren't milking. Well, look at the classification. Doesn't look like the cows are milking. But how do we fix the problem when somebody comes out and says, oh, what are. 00;17;28;17 - 00;17;30;02 Brad Your screens wrong? 00;17;30;05 - 00;17;39;21 Brad Your heifers maybe a little too chunky. Silage face is not good, you know, how do we improve these performances? 00;17;39;23 - 00;17;42;01 Brad What are we putting in our rations? We're not adding. 00;17;42;01 - 00;18;00;14 Brad A lot, but do we need to put some of these yeast byproducts or yeast supplements or go to Ddgs? We we stopped feeding Ddgs a while ago, but maybe we need to go back to feeding ddgs. So there's just a lot of things that that I'm looking at right now. And this company's coming up with kind of a plan. 00;18;00;16 - 00;18;01;23 Brad And we're going to. 00;18;01;26 - 00;18;02;28 Brad See what the plan is. 00;18;03;06 - 00;18;03;17 Brad Here. 00;18;03;24 - 00;18;05;04 Brad Probably this week. 00;18;05;07 - 00;18;06;12 Brad And where we might. 00;18;06;12 - 00;18;07;13 Brad Go. 00;18;07;15 - 00;18;08;25 Brad As far as trying to figure out the. 00;18;08;25 - 00;18;15;02 Brad Production woes, the transition cow problems, the health problems. 00;18;15;02 - 00;18;16;29 Brad In our herd. Probably the biggest. 00;18;16;29 - 00;18;21;12 Brad Thing is just why aren't these cows milking? They have the genetics to milk. 00;18;21;15 - 00;18;23;06 Brad And they're not. So hopefully you learned a little bit. 00;18;23;06 - 00;18;24;20 Brad On my on on. 00;18;24;20 - 00;18;25;09 Brad My story. 00;18;25;09 - 00;18;27;28 Brad Yes. It's I'm quite open about. 00;18;27;28 - 00;18;29;02 Brad Our dairy and. 00;18;29;02 - 00;18;30;06 Brad What's happening. 00;18;30;08 - 00;18;32;00 Brad Many farms probably are not. 00;18;32;00 - 00;18;32;28 Brad About what's, what's. 00;18;32;28 - 00;18;33;27 Brad Going on in their dairies. 00;18;33;27 - 00;18;52;12 Brad But I hope that some of the things that I shared with you, you might think about and see what you can see on other dairies. And I'll certainly be able to share with you in a future episode all of the changes that we did, what we did, what we did to the rations, what we found. 00;18;52;12 - 00;18;53;21 Brad In our TMR audit. 00;18;53;23 - 00;19;05;08 Brad Definitely. I can probably have a full podcast on on TMR audits and what we did and how we changed things, but I think by knowing a lot of these things and knowing what's happening on. 00;19;05;08 - 00;19;05;26 Brad Your dairy. 00;19;05;27 - 00;19;11;27 Brad Getting some fresh eyes in there to see what's going on, I think it'll help improve the profitability. 00;19;11;27 - 00;19;12;17 Brad The production. 00;19;12;17 - 00;19;14;19 Brad The efficiency of. 00;19;14;21 - 00;19;15;13 Brad Dairy farms. 00;19;15;13 - 00;19;19;09 Brad So hopefully you learned just a maybe a little tidbit about, some things. 00;19;19;09 - 00;19;21;20 Brad To look for on farms from a nutritional or. 00;19;21;20 - 00;19;27;10 Brad Management standpoint, as you move into the future. And I'll certainly keep abreast of what's going on. 00;19;27;13 - 00;19;28;09 Brad In our herd. You know. 00;19;28;09 - 00;19;31;17 Brad What? It's kind of a case study that I'm talking about. 00;19;31;20 - 00;19;33;07 Brad How can we get more milk out of our cars? 00;19;33;07 - 00;19;39;12 Brad So with that, if you have any comments, questions, scathing rebuttals, feel free to let me know. 00;19;39;15 - 00;19;40;27 Brad At the Moos room. 00;19;40;27 - 00;19;47;00 Brad That's mostly from that. Any edu or find me on the web. 00;19;47;00 - 00;19;47;28 Brad University of Minnesota. 00;19;47;28 - 00;19;49;03 Brad Livestock Extension. 00;19;49;06 - 00;19;51;08 Brad Or Instagram or on the web. 00;19;51;08 - 00;19;52;04 Brad At WC. 00;19;52;08 - 00;19;53;26 Brad Rock dairy. 00;19;53;28 - 00;20;00;11 Brad And what's that? I hope you have a wonderful winter. I mean.