Certified Feed Management Planners: Dairy
Required Items for a Completed Feed Management Plan
List of all items required for a complete feed management plan and quarterly updates.
Online Tools
A monitoring tool for lactating, dry cows, and heifers for protein and phosphorus
Documents for Writing a Feed Management Plan
This checklist will help determine opportunities on the farm when developing a plan.
This checklist will help evaluate what is currently being done on the farm, what changes are possible, and which ones are neither feasible nor economical.
This template provides the guidelines for putting a plan together.
This checklist will help determine opportunities on the farm when developing a plan
This checklist will help evaluate what is currently being done on the farm, what changes are possible, and which ones are neither feasible nor economical.
Sample Feed Management Plan Documents for an Anonymous Farm
A feed management plan requires going through the opportunity checklist, the feed management checklist and the feed management template with the dairy producer and nutritionist. Draft plans of two anonymous farms are provided, as well as the samples of the ration (in this case TMRs) and manure, which are required.
TMR-Fed Herd in a Tie-Stall Facility:
Identify resource concerns and/or conditions where research applies and assess the opportunities.
Component-Fed Herd in a Tie-Stall Facility
Identify resource concerns and/or conditions where research applies and assess the opportunities.
