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And welcome to The Moos Room. A nice snowy.

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Day here.

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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.

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So winter is upon us here in the upper Midwest.

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I think Iowa's getting.

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Braced for.

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A lot of snow right now. So a lot.

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Of us are are deep into winter, or at least winter is starting.

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And trying to manage everything that comes along with.

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Winter time and winter time.

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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.

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Where we're going.

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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.

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Cows can really milk, or.

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What's not getting the production out of the cows, that I think that we can and I think that we've seen in.

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The past, you know, maybe our herds 40 or.

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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.

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More than 40 or 50.

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Pounds out of our cows without really trying much.

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In October we had.

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Holstein association classification, so the classifier comes out and.

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Scores.

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All of our Holstein cows. And it was mid-October.

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This year and I was there for it.

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Because I always like to be there for classification day. It's always fun to look at cows and see what.

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They're going to score.

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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.

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University type herd, but we do pretty good. You know, we're not a high type herd. I certainly don't select for.

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A lot of high.

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Sires.

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But.

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We hold our own.

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In the type.

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Category. We have good.

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Functional type, I shouldn't say, but.

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When the cows were coming up for.

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Classification that morning, I kind of was looking at them. I'm like, these cows have.

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No milk in their udders. They're not.

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Full. You know what is happening? They these cows should be so.

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Much more.

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Full and more production in them. You know, they've been milked.

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12 hours ago and it.

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Just I got the appearance that they just didn't have any milk in them and kind of went on and you know, I.

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Went to Germany after.

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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.

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Savannah, Georgia, I was.

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Speaking at the Dsm's annual meeting.

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And they were.

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Showcasing some other things, and we were kind of going through some case studies on.

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And we were.

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Going through.

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Dairy Depo, which is in their herd HQ platform, and.

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Kind of can give you a pretty good overview of what's.

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Happening in the herd.

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Anyways. So I started looking.

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At our herd.

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And by some of the things we were kind of walking through some case studies and everybody was able to look at.

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Certain herds, or if it was your own herd, you could.

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Look at that as well. So I kind of.

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Started.

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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.

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Cows are probably producing 30%.

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Less.

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Than what they're predicted to produce.

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Which is kind of crazy. That's a lot.

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Of milk we're leaving on the.

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Table.

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And that's some first lactation cows.

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If you kind of look at the second lactation cows, you see about the same thing, maybe not quite as drastic, but.

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80%.

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Of what they should be producing. The third lactation.

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Cows are more. We're doing pretty good in the early spring, but.

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Kind of fall in that.

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80% of what they're predicted.

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To produce. So kind of.

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On average, our cows are.

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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.

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And if.

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You look at the first lactation.

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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.

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The first 30 days.

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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.

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In first lactation cows, we're seeing.

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A lot of Metroid US and.

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Ketosis in first.

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Lactation cows. I shouldn't expect to see really. You know, first, lactation cows.

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Have a lot of try this problems.

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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.

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Especially from our herd.

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Any any which way we can do.

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To create more.

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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.

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Different eyes on our dairy.

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To kind of see what's going.

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On in our herd and see if there's anything.

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That that we can really solve. So they came out last week.

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You know, were we work with the.

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Nutritionist maybe necessarily doesn't.

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Show up very often. Are the rations.

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Balance? I don't know.

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They're put through a ration.

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Program, but I'm.

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Not sure if we're.

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Utilizing that to the ways that we should be. We don't have a lot of additives.

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In our our.

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Feed. We have rumen medicine, which I'm not necessarily.

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Sure that that's really working.

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There's bio-rad, which is.

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A different supplemental.

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Product in there. We also use integral A, which is a micro toxin binder.

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So for some corn silage problems.

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That we had.

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Earlier this summer where we were.

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Causing.

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Abortions.

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In the animals, but I'm not sure that some of these.

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Supplements are actually working in our our feeding program.

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And I need to figure this out nutritionally because.

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We're losing production.

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We got transmission cow problems, health problems, and early lactation. And I got to solve it.

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Our cows will be much healthier.

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If I do so as nutrition company came out and.

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We walked around the.

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Farm and kind of.

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Found some different.

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Things and.

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See where where are we going to.

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Go. So we'll kind of run down a few of the things. So we we kind of made a loop around.

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Where our.

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Milking facility is kind of in front of that.

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There were some.

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Dry cows, and in the next pen.

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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.

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Of looked at those.

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14 month old heifers and went.

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Oh, they're kind of fat.

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So maybe we're overfeeding our young stock.

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Not having the.

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Correct ration.

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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.

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Heifers are really eating.

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We need to keep increasing the amount that's fed. And that's probably not good either.

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Probably one of the first things that we.

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Notice is.

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Our heifers.

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Maybe a little too fat at 12 months of age. So hopefully we can correct that with the.

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Proper.

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Nutrition and.

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Proper.

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Employee training. Diet management kind of looked at the dry cows. You know, the dry cows looked okay. Nothing that looked.

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Out of the ordinary.

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We walked to our calves. One of the things that we talked about specifically with.

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Our calves were.

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We feed a lot of.

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Milk here. So we're ten liters of milk per per calf per day.

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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.

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Very many.

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But they eat a lot.

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They gain very well. Most of our heifers are doing well over.

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2 pounds a day. And one of the nutritionist looked at me and kind of said, you probably have weaning problems, don't you?

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Or do they crash and burn after weaning? And of course, I.

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Admit they do. We we don't properly have a transition from high milk levels to solid feed. So they.

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These heifers crash and burn.

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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.

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Heifers just crash and burn. And after.

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That, because they're not adequately eating the amount.

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Of grain or forage that they.

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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.

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30 days from your weaning period.

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If we get the calves eating.

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Good grain, good starter.

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Maybe not feed so much milk, we will maybe be at eight liters.

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So we're still.

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Going to feed a high level milk.

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But we certainly I'm looking forward to not.

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Having,

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12 week old heifers crash and burn and not doing very well.

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And taking a long time to get back.

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To where they.

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Should be, because we fed too much milk and didn't kind of have this transition.

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Period for those.

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Animals. And we'll probably have a different transition.

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Period.

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A different way of weaning the calves as well. To change that. And hopefully that will pay off dividends.

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As our heifers get older and.

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Maybe they won't be so fat when we get to breeding age as well. Then we walk through our lactating cow herds.

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Both organic.

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Cows, in a.

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Compost barn. It's winter time, so they're.

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In a confinement system. Not as much.

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Grain.

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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.

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The rations aren't balanced.

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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.

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Looked around at the.

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Cows, nutritionist was like, there's.

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A lot of corn going through.

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These cows. I can see it in the ration, so that's not good.

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You're wasting a lot of corn.

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I can see lots of specks in the ration. They're not digesting it. Well, it's like.

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I want to look at your hammer mill.

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See what's.

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Going on there.

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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.

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Kind of corn.

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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.

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And our.

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Organic hammer mills, and we opened up the conventional one screens.

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Not small enough. We're not grinding the corn.

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Fine enough.

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For the cows. We're not hammering it enough.

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So we need to change our screens.

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He's like, you're probably.

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Wasting 2 to 3.

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Pounds of corn per cow in our conventional ration.

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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.

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Do some manure screens.

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After the change and see what happens. You said we could probably save money because.

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We're not corn, not.

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Going just absolutely through those cows and being a waste. And we open up.

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The organic hammer mill. The screen was even bigger than what it was in the corn conventional herd.

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So yeah, there's some management things that we got to take.

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Care of on our hammer.

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Mills. We've got to put.

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Smaller screens in there.

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So we grind up the.

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Corn, get the starch more available.

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To those cows and see what's happening. Then we kind of went back and decided, well.

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We're going to take some forward.

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Samples. Corn silage haulage. We have some oats and peas mix. They took some samples of corn.

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Our grain.

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Mixes to kind of see, see what we can do. I, I gave the nutritionist the.

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Rations that we're feeding our conventional herds.

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Eating 50 pounds of.

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Dry matter. He's like, I don't understand.

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You're feeding 50 pounds of dry matter and not getting much milk out of these cows. Something by having this much dry.

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Matter in your.

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Cows, you should be getting a lot more milk than what you should. Basically, we should be getting 70.

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Pounds out of our cows.

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By.

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The amount of dry matter that we're feeding them, and we're getting.

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50.

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So we're leaving.

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20 pounds of milk on the.

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Table somewhere.

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That's a lot. That's a lot of money. Another thing we we.

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Looked at our BMR.

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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.

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Our corn silage.

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At least our corn silage, and not have.

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As much shrink or wastage in our corn silage for the 3 or $4000.

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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.

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Had a TMR audit in your herd?

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Like, not since I've.

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Been here, which is well over ten years. And so we're.

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Probably going to have.

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A TMR audit done in our herd to figure out what what's going on. If you're not familiar with those TMR audits.

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What do they do while they evaluate.

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Forage.

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Quality? They evaluate.

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Bunker management or.

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Feed pile management. They evaluate shrink their load preparation. So how do we load feeds?

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What feeds are.

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Reloading into the.

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Team?

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Our mixer you know, can we should we switch those things. Should we have the.

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Corn first or should we.

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Have the hail.

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First or what.

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What ingredient should we add first?

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What about refusals? How do we measure.

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Refusals.

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Or what are we.

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Actually feeding to? Refusals?

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Feed delivery.

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Times? No.

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How? How are we feeding.

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Those cows and ration consistency? I think overall the this TMR audit I hope will improve.

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TMR.

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Consistency, reduce, shrink and improve.

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Our herd performance.

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And feed efficiency. That's probably one of the good things that.

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We're trying to figure out.

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You know, how do we process our.

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Forage.

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Quality. If you if you look at a a lot of TMR audits.

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Forage.

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Quality is probably one of the big things.

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You know, what are the silage temperatures.

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Hower how well is it packed. What is.

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The particle.

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Size. What is the face management goal of our herd?

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We really want to reduce spoiled silage.

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Basically we.

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Only want to remove enough.

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Silage to avoid heating.

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In. In our pile.

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We have a big silage pile. And it can be a problem without a silage.

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Face or.

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So. Basically, we don't want to have any loose silage at the end of the feeding. We only want to take out as.

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Much as what we're using.

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And sometimes it's.

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Guilty here as well.

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We cut way too much plastic off our pile, and too much spoiled silage is.

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There for heating or whatever might happen. So we're really.

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Going to try to, remove the silage face heating and, and do that with a facer. I think that's probably what.

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We're going to.

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Go to and see. A lot of the.

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Good herds are doing.

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That. Obviously we're not. I think we need to move that way. One of the things is trying.

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To reduce variation.

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Increasing load.

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Preparation.

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Speed. So how fast can we load the different silage is.

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Is there a different.

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Way that we need to load.

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The forages.

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And be able to consistently get the feed in to.

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The TMR mixer.

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To increase efficiency.

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Or decrease.

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Spoilage? Obviously we're going to be looking at load sizes. You know.

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Are they too big or.

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Are they too small?

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For our close up cows, for.

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Our lactating cows? And how do we.

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Determine the.

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Right side of loads that we can use?

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Ingredient mix, order. Probably one.

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Of the biggest things that.

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We need to work on.

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I can tell you that, you know, I.

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Observe a.

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Lot of these things, but it's always good to get different eyes.

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Out to your dairy farm.

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To be able to see this, because sometimes you don't see anything, everything. You know, I probably would have.

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Never figured out that the screens were wrong in our hammer mills.

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Without having the nutrition come out and go.

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Or some other person come out and.

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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.

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Things that we're going.

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To do. It's it's it's a lot of things. It's a lot of.

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Changes that we're probably going.

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To do at a time. But I think it's.

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Important for, for our dairies, it's important for your dairies to.

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Look at these things, have somebody else come out, have some.

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Other.

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Eyes.

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On your dairy to see.

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What's going on.

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Whether it's veterinarian, whether it's another nutritionist, whether it's other farmers.

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They might notice something.

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That you're not.

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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.

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Your screens wrong?

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Your heifers maybe a little too chunky. Silage face is not good, you know, how do we improve these performances?

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What are we putting in our rations? We're not adding.

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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.

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And we're going to.

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See what the plan is.

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Here.

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Probably this week.

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And where we might.

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Go.

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As far as trying to figure out the.

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Production woes, the transition cow problems, the health problems.

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In our herd. Probably the biggest.

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Thing is just why aren't these cows milking? They have the genetics to milk.

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And they're not. So hopefully you learned a little bit.

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On my on on.

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My story.

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Yes. It's I'm quite open about.

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Our dairy and.

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What's happening.

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Many farms probably are not.

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About what's, what's.

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Going on in their dairies.

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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.

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In our TMR audit.

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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.

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Your dairy.

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Getting some fresh eyes in there to see what's going on, I think it'll help improve the profitability.

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The production.

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The efficiency of.

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Dairy farms.

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So hopefully you learned just a maybe a little tidbit about, some things.

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To look for on farms from a nutritional or.

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Management standpoint, as you move into the future. And I'll certainly keep abreast of what's going on.

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In our herd. You know.

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What? It's kind of a case study that I'm talking about.

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How can we get more milk out of our cars?

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So with that, if you have any comments, questions, scathing rebuttals, feel free to let me know.

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At the Moos room.

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That's mostly from that. Any edu or find me on the web.

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University of Minnesota.

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Livestock Extension.

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Or Instagram or on the web.

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At WC.

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Rock dairy.

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And what's that? I hope you have a wonderful winter. I mean.