date:Aug 01, 2012
Dairy farmers currently face no good alternatives when it comes to what to put in feed rations, Mr. Brown said, because all ingredients are at record levels.
Their palette is pretty limited without affecting yield, Mr. Brown said. He mentioned corn silage, alfalfa, high-quality hay and canola meal as possibly being nominally more affordable than corn, soybean meal or millfeed, which are trading at historically high levels.
The problem is, farmers cant substitute and save, he said.
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