How to reduce dairy feed costs with forage management

Forages play an important role in maintaining milk production in dairy systems. Although high-energy concentrates can be partly used to achieve this target, dairy farmers would utilise forages to a greater extent in the case where grains and the other concentrate components of feed rations become expensive or unavailable. With proper management of the forage system, the feed cost will be reduced. In addition to lower feed costs, also production efficiency and profitability will be improved. The