[The EU agreement] gave a lot of support to the market. A lot of buyers came in, ... Tariffs (for exports) will be reduced dramatically. It's excellent.

Dietary modifications that result in reduced ammonia emissions should be considered best management practices. Those practices include adequately balancing diets, feeding highly digestible feedstuffs and preserving feeds adequately.

Producers need to consider that trying to save a few dollars worth of gas when ensiling their crop could later cost them hundreds making up for forage quality losses. The objective when we ensile any crop is to maintain its quality as close as possible to that of the original forage. We will never be able to have a better product than what we started with and we can only expect to reduce losses to a minimum.

The time has come to be proud of what we are.

These results suggest that body condition score plays a very important role in the performance of cooled cows after calving.

Filling fast doesn't mean not paying enough attention to packing. This last step, together with immediate covering of the ensiled mass, is critical in order to protect the quality of the corn silage,