Winter Forage: Harvesting for High Milk Production
Harvest: DO NOT HARVEST AT BOOT STAGE. This is about a week late and
significantly decreases the digestibility and milk produced. It was OK in the 1980’s when 60
lbs. of milk/cow/day was considered good. Today, 90 lbs./cow/day is considered normal,
and the digestibility of the forage is critical both for supporting the healthier, more profitable,
high forage diets and the amount of milk the cows are producing today. This earlier, on-time
harvest will slightly decrease
