For many Midwest livestock operations, hay remains one of the largest and most important feed resources on the farm. Yet hay ...

The author is a dairy consultant with Vita Plus. The 2025 growing season had more Midwest acres planted with high-oleic soybeans than ever before, demonstrating producers’ booming interest in this ...

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Soybeans are a great source of protein and fat for dairy rations, and the recent introduction of high-oleic soybeans has renewed the interest in feeding roasted soybeans. Roasted soybeans have ...

A significant challenge in sugar beet cultivation is the issue of continuous cropping cycles. The implementation of preceding crop cultivation has emerged as an effective strategy to mitigate the ...

The expansion of soybean production is an interesting story. Records show it was used in China since the 11 th Century BCE, introduced to North America possibly during the American Revolutionary era, ...

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This study explored the effects of turning frequency on fermentation efficiency and microbial metabolic function of sheep manure composting on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). Five treatments with ...

Homeostasis is a prerequisite for health. When homeostasis becomes disrupted, dysfunction occurs. This is especially the case for the gut microbiota, which under normal conditions lives in symbiosis ...