Nutritional and management adjustment in dairy production due to grain shortage in Paraguay

Published 2022년 2월 22일

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The article highlights the challenges dairy farmers are facing due to the low supply of grains and high production costs, leading them to make efficiency adjustments in nutrition and management. Adviser Alejo Guichón discusses strategies such as culling inefficient cows, increasing fiber in animal diets, and replacing soybeans with other protein sources to reduce costs. The use of alternative energy sources like sorghum, wheat bran, and rice to cover the lack of corn in dairy cattle feed is also suggested. These strategies aim to cover the increased cost of protein sources rather than reducing them, allowing farmers to continue providing for their cows despite market difficulties.

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The low availability of grains (soybeans and corn) for feeding dairy cattle and the high prices of inputs for dairy production led the producer to opt for an efficiency adjustment in the nutritional and management part given the need to continue producing efficiently. The Ing. Agr. Alejo Guichón, adviser in Animal Nutrition and Genetic Improvement, commented to Nación Productiva, a program broadcast on Sundays at 8:00 p.m. on channel PRO, that with the difficulties presented in the market in terms of supply and high prices of inputs, some producers had to make an adjustment to production efficiency, culling cows to try to tighten all production processes. In that sense, the professional indicated that this situation started in 2020 and continues to happen until now, since the price of meat kept many cows within the herds that had milking expectations; however, with the higher cost of feeding, the most inefficient ones had to be discarded and, therefore, they ended up in the meat ...

Source: Productivacm