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Measuring Responses to Rising Dairy Feed Costs

Dairy producers need to be cautious about how they respond to current feed costs challenges, according to University of Illinois Extension dairy specialist Mike Hutjens.
Decisions that appear on the surface to make sense may make things worse, such as removing feed additives because they add to feed costs; dropping expensive fuzzy cottonseed; adding five pounds [...]