One of our consultants has recentely visited 14 dairy farms together with a Chinese partner. It was the second time this year that a series of farms was visited, ranging in size from 300 to 5000 dairy cows.
Main points of attention were the lack of adaption to roughage in post-weaning calves, sorting of TMR because of low humidity and strong drying winds, heat-stress abatement and preparing alfalfa silage.
Quite many farms were installing soaker lines because the region is bordering the Gobi desert and temperatures in summer can reach 40°C+
Production levels are in general between 30 and 36 kg/day.
The Chinese government promotes moving of dairy farms from village surroundings to more remote areas where manure handling and storage can be done more ecological friendly. Also it is more easy to apply manure to alfalfa and corn fields.
Ruminant Nutrition advice by Nutrivice Consultancy
Many consultants can tell you what could be improved on your dairy farm. Far fewer can propose the right measures and actually implement them.
The consultants at Nutrivice Consultancy specialize in both identifying and implementing the correct solutions.
We design rations for all groups of dairy cattle on your farm. It doesn’t matter whether you work with TMR, PMR, concentrate feeders, milking robots, or individual ingredients. We use the latest scientific nutritional standards. As an independent nutrition consultancy, we do not produce feed ourselves and are not tied to any specific feed manufacturers. This allows us to remain completely independent and tailor our advice to what works best for your farm, regardless of where you source your feed.
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