WHAT IS CHALLENGE FEEDING?

My summers in the early 1980’s were spent working on a neighbor’s dairy farm. My dad was a crop farmer, so the neighbor’s farm was where I got my start in the dairy business. One day I was sent to Brodhead, WI to pick up one of the first TMR mixers in the area – a Knight Little Auggie. That was the beginning of the end of what we called challenge feeding. On my own farm, I fed ingredients separately in a tie stall barn, so I continued challenge feeding until I sold the cows in 2001.

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