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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1009959" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>mom, </p><p>I can't find it at the moment, but UofMN has a nice excel spreadsheet program that you can use to figure best-cost rations for overwintering beef cows - my farm manager/wife uses it - allows you to input cow size, body condition score, stage of production/lactation, etc. in figuring up how much of each component needs to be fed to support adequate performance with a target cow BCS at the end of the feeding period. </p><p></p><p>She came across this deal about halfway through this past winter - turns out we were feeding about half as much hay and twice as much distiller's grain as our cows needed. With current prices, increasing hay fed and decreasing the DGP, we could potentially save several thousand $$ in feed costs over the course of a winter. </p><p></p><p>Here's the UofMN beef page - <a href="http://www.extension.umn.edu/beef/components/ccnutrition.htm" target="_blank">http://www.extension.umn.edu/beef/compo ... rition.htm</a></p><p>Looks like the calculator is not currently available for download directly from the site(as far as I can ascertain), but you may only have to contact the appropriate folks for them to send it to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1009959, member: 12607"] mom, I can't find it at the moment, but UofMN has a nice excel spreadsheet program that you can use to figure best-cost rations for overwintering beef cows - my farm manager/wife uses it - allows you to input cow size, body condition score, stage of production/lactation, etc. in figuring up how much of each component needs to be fed to support adequate performance with a target cow BCS at the end of the feeding period. She came across this deal about halfway through this past winter - turns out we were feeding about half as much hay and twice as much distiller's grain as our cows needed. With current prices, increasing hay fed and decreasing the DGP, we could potentially save several thousand $$ in feed costs over the course of a winter. Here's the UofMN beef page - [url=http://www.extension.umn.edu/beef/components/ccnutrition.htm]http://www.extension.umn.edu/beef/compo ... rition.htm[/url] Looks like the calculator is not currently available for download directly from the site(as far as I can ascertain), but you may only have to contact the appropriate folks for them to send it to you. [/QUOTE]
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