THE FEEDING STRATEGY BEHIND 52L/DAY COWS: NDF AND STARCH DIGESTIBILITY | FAZENDA COLORADO 🇧🇷

CHECKLIST: https://pay.hotmart.com/Q99595338E?of... ORIGINAL VIDEO:    • A MAIOR FAZENDA DO BRASIL DE VACAS LEITEIR...   In this video, you’ll discover how Fazenda Colorado, one of Brazil’s most advanced dairy farms, designs and monitors high-performance feeding programs. With 2,400 cows producing over 100,000 liters of milk/day, nutrition is a core pillar of the system’s efficiency and health. 📍 Location: Araras, São Paulo – Brazil 🥛 Average production: 43–52 liters/cow/day 🧪 Feeding frequency: 6 times per day 🍽️ Diet plans: high production, mid production, and postpartum 🧠 Key Highlights: Three diets formulated for different stages and yields High-moisture corn, Tifton grass hay, brewery barley, citrus pulp, cottonseed, CP soy, vitamins and minerals Specific additives like choline and methionine included in the postpartum group Weekly silage analysis: DM, starch, digestible NDF, indigestible NDF (iNDF240) Maximum total starch: 27%, with fermentable starch capped at 19% for high-producing cows Particle size managed with Penn State Separator; targets defined per sieve layer Frequent feed push-ups every hour to improve intake Monitoring: rumination, fecal scoring, behavior, milk fat ⚠️ Challenges and Risk Management: Overcrowding (~30%) is a real concern affecting feed access and pH Feed delivery and fiber length adjusted based on dry matter content and rumen response Preventive focus on acidosis, jejunal syndrome and milk fat depression Integration with on-farm dairy plant: milk fat is critical to optimize cream production 📌 Important links: Online course: https://santafeagroinstituto.com/onli... Instagram:   / santafeagroinstituto.us   Facebook:   / santafeagroinstituto.us   Products: https://santafeagroinstituto.myshopif... Join them on this journey! #dairyfarm #dairycow #cow #nasem2021