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The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law on January 4, 2011, and provides the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with sweeping new authorities and requirements.
If you have an operation where you have silage carryover from one crop to the next, then when making these transitions, it's important to keep a close eye on starch content and digestibility. During the course of corn silage storage, the total amount of starch in the pile will not change much. What does change, however, is the digestibility of the starch.
It's important to feed silage quickly so the forage doesn't mold or heat. With its short shelf life, dairy producers need to monitor their silage for loss of energy and heat associated with the silage.
Technology has become an intregal part to dairy operations throughout the United States. With this amount of information available it can be difficult to decide what to focus on. Unfortunately, this amount of data is all to common with the milking center of dairy operations. It can be quite difficult to figure out which milk flow parameters are the most useful.
With the implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD), dairy producers are concerned with what potential impact these regulations have on them and their operation. The quick answer to the concern is the impact of the VFD will be felt more than FSMA by dairy producers.
We have a huge challenge ahead of us. U.S. 2016 production of corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum hit an all-time record high 22.1 billion bushels, on top of beginning inventories of 2.9 billion bushels. Elevators and farmers alike will be stretched to house this massive stockpile of 25+ billion bushels, which doesn't include other crops such as barley, rye and oats. USDA last showed on-farm plus commercial storage capacity at 24.2B bushels, and although more bins have been built this year, ground piles and other temporary storage will be a common site this fall.
