Nebraska

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• Nebraska
• Dairys New World of
• Opportunity

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• What does Nebraska have to offer Relocating or
  Expanding Dairy Operations
• Jeffrey Keown
• Extension Dairy Specialist
• University of Nebraska

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Water and Land

• Nebraska has the Ogallala Aquifer- 5X the water
  in Lake Erie.
• As much Irrigated land as California.
• Irrigated Corn and Alfalfa
• By-product feeds

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• 15 Ethanol Plants in operation 30 more on the
  drawing board
• Nebraska is in a position to become the leader in
  Ethanol production

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• Department of Environmental Quality ready and
  willing to work with the expanding industry
• A receptive state government that knows the
  benefits of an expanding animal industry

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• Nebraska welcomes all dairies regardless of the
  size----200-and up.
• Nebraska is ready to expand the dairy
  opportunities for producers.

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Nebraska

• An innovative atmosphere that wants to progress
  in agriculture
• Initiative 300 no longer in effect

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• Agriculture Friendly County Designations
• Support systems in place to work with
  producersAFANplus industry UniversityState
  Government and local support groups.
• A state that knows and appreciates agriculture

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• Reasonable Environmental Laws and regulations
• A flow chart of what to do, who to contact and a
  timetable to accomplish your expansion plans.

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• We feel that the time is now to look at your
  expansion programs and to take a long hard look
  at what Nebraska has to offer.
• Tour of the State is in the planning stage---if
  interested please contact either myself or Terry
  Landes.

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• Whats new and on the horizon ---lets take a
  look at a Closed Loop System that combines manure
  disposalenergy productionethanol production
  and a feed source for the dairy operation.
• Is the future NOW!!!!!!

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University of Nebraska Dairy Nutrition Research

• Major Thrust of Research (over 15 projects)
• Replacing traditional feedstuffs with corn
  milling co-products (wet corn gluten feed,
  distillers grains etc.)
• Ration Balancing Procedures
• Chemical Composition and
• Nutrient availability
• Lactation performance
• Whole animal nutrient utilization
• and excretion

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Examples of Recent Research
1. Wet Corn Gluten Feed (Kononoff et al. 2005)
- 80 head, full 306 d lactation -
Demonstrated that intake and milk production
could be increased when diets contained 30 (DM
basis) of wet corn gluten feed. 2. Dried
Distillers Grains (Janick et al., 2006) - 20
head, lactating cows - Demonstrated that intake
and milk production could be increased by
feeding diets containing 10, 20 and 30 (DM
basis) of DDGS. 3. Wet Corn Gluten Feed (Gehman
et al., 2006 and Kononoff et al., 2007) -
Study on digestible fiber and protein -
Demonstrated the extent of fiber digestion is gt
70 - Demonstrated rumen degradability of
protein to be gt 90 4. Combinations of Wet Corn
Gluten Feed and Wet Distillers Grains (ongoing)
- evaluating possible potential of
complementary effect - evaluating and
quantifying nitrogen excretion