Arm & Hammer Helps Boost Income Over Feed Costs

Cindy ZimmermanArm and Hammer, Audio, Nutrition, World Dairy Expo

world dairy expo 2010 arm&hammer blockAt World Dairy Expo this year, Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition was talking with producers about income over feed costs and how they can improve that number.

“Income over feed costs is a very simple measure,” explains Senior Manager, Technology, Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition, Dr. Elliot Block. “It’s how much money you’ve made for your milk, total revenue, minus what the feed cost was to make that milk.”

Increasing the amount of income for milk might be best accomplished by raising the components, such as milk fat, by adding a few cents to the diet. “Today, where milk fat is almost equal to milk protein in price, which we’ve never seen before, you get a .1 change in milk fat without changing volume, that’s a fairly large increase in income per hundredweight of milk.”

One way for dairy producers to boost milk fat production by increasing dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) with a high-quality potassium source. To learn more about balancing diets for optimal DCAD levels, Arm & Hammer has developed a new DCAD calculator, which can help determine ration DCAD and provide guidelines for appropriate DCAD levels based on stage of lactation. The DCAD calculator is available at www.AHDairy.com.

Listen to my interview with Elliot from World Dairy Expo here. Elliot Block Interview

2010 World Dairy Expo Photo Album

Thanks to our World Dairy Expo sponsors:
Alpharma Arm & Hammer Charleston-Orwig Novartis Animal Health Novus

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