Everyone talks about “culture” on dairies, but for calves, culture quietly determines which calves grow into healthy, high-performing cows and which struggle. In this episode, Scott explores how...
62: Why Culture Builds Better Calves
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61: Mycotoxins & Subtle Stress: Why Cows Look Fine but Performance Drifts
What do you do when the cows look perfectly fine but performance keeps drifting? In this episode of Ruminate This, Scott Zehr breaks down the quiet, hard-to-detect issue plaguing many dairy herds:...
Reproductive Gains with DTX™ Under Mycotoxin Pressure
The presence of dietary mycotoxins initiates a variety of responses by all animals. The immune response to mycotoxins is energetically expensive and draws nutrients away from other purposes such as...
59: Nine Months of Pain All Because Testing Came Too Late
Mycotoxins like DON, zearalenone, and fumonisin silently drain herd health and profits, but too often, testing only happens after the damage is done. In this episode of Ruminate This, Scott Zehr and...
Mycotoxin Report: April – September 2025
The DON and Zearalenone Challenges Continue
58: The Truth About Calcium Carbonate in Dairy Nutrition
Most people see “calcium carbonate” on a label and assume it’s all the same, cheap limestone that barely gets absorbed. However, now we know: Not all calcium carbonate is created equal. In this...
57: The True Cost of Staying the Same on Your Dairy
What if the biggest hidden cost on your dairy isn’t feed, labor, or genetics, but the pain of not changing? In this episode of Ruminate This, Scott Zehr and co-host Jeff Hostetter, Product Manager...
56: Shaping the Future of Transition Cow Health
Most dairies focus on calcium deficiency during the transition period, but what if that’s just a symptom, not the root cause? In this episode of Ruminate This, Mark Carpenter, CEO of Agrarian...
Plant Power with Plant Actives
The primary strength of DTX™ Concentrate product has been the cell-wall deficient bacteria (CWDB) training the digestive tract to protect itself against mycotoxins. Now equally important is the...
55: Best practices for disbudding
Disbudding is performed on nearly 94% of U.S. dairy farms. Dr. Alycia Drwencke, PhD, Tucker Lab Member at the University of California, Davis, shares research comparing methods and why proper pain...
54: The next generation of transition cow care
Preventing milk fever is important, but it’s not the whole story. The real wins in transition care happen when you go beyond calcium. In this episode of Ruminate This, John Lawlor, Managing Director...
53: Silage inoculates: what they do and don’t do
Do forage inoculants really work, or are they just “insurance”? Can they prevent or reduce mycotoxins in silage? In this episode of Ruminate This, Agrarian Solutions’ Vice President of Nutrition,...
Predicting the 2025 Corn Silage Quality and Hygiene
Corn silage chopping season is rapidly approaching, and now is the time to get ready to determine feed quality and hygiene. It is important to know the characteristics of the corn silage entering...
52: Corn Silage Secrets: Stop Shrink, Boost Quality
In this episode of Ruminate This, we discuss simple, no-nonsense strategies to set up your silage season for success and stop costly feed losses before they start. Agrarian Solutions’ Vice President...
The Effect of Cow Start™ Complete on Milk Production and Reproduction
Dairy cows experience multiple sources of inflammation during the transition period associated with calving. Recent research suggests that resolving inflammation in transition cows may result in...
The Cutting-Edge of Transition Health Management
The transition period from three weeks pre-calving through three weeks post-calving has been researched and discussed greatly. Rightly so, as this phase accounts for significant health costs and...
51: Optimizing Transition Cow Health to Boost Fertility and Milk Production
The first week after calving is a critical window that impacts reproductive performance and overall lactation success in dairy cows. In this episode, we discuss how supporting transition cows’...
50: Drone Technology for Accurate Silage and Feedstuff Inventory
Accurate feed inventory management is crucial for dairy producers and nutritionists to optimize ration formulation, improve herd performance, and meet lender requirements. In this episode of...