nTELL Insight

Seeing Silage With New Eyes
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From Field to Dairy Insights
OPPORTUNITY

Cows  productivity  and  success comes with consistent routine and more  importantly,  adequate feed to  fuel  them  at  all  stages.  Corn silage  season  is  underway  across the  country,  creating future  feed for herds. Thus, tracking feed stuffs is  highly  important  as  it  has significant  impacts on  milk production  and  ultimately,  the milk check. As producers navigate new  feed  transitions, nTELL  helps highlight their effects.

NTELL USAGE

Initially  the  “DM  by  Ingredients”  graph  in  the  FeedKPA  (Key  Performance  Area)  may  appear overwhelming with the multitude of lines. However, simple  navigations  throughout  the  platform assist in interpreting the data.

EXAMPLE

To  hone  in  on  the  wet  ingredients  -  “turn  off”  the dry  ingredients  to  see  the  finer  details. For example,  this chart  easily  shows  how  the  farm’s DM is decreasing.

Then, when looking at the Production KPA and reviewing the  farm’s  components  over  time, during  that  same period  of  decreased  DM  in  the  corn  silage,  the  cows decreased in butterfat.

Its easy to see how nTELL can be used to simultaneously view multiple factors of the dairy and see how they work together. As new silage is brought in and incorporated nTell provides the means to track those feed ingredients and in real time, show how the herd and individual cows are impacted. Even the smallest detail in feed changes matters to any cow, let alone hundreds or thousands on an operation!

APPLY THE INSIGHT

What  could  nTELL  help  you see  in  your  feed  intake  when new silage is incorporated?

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