Environmental and Economic Responses to Precision Feed Management in Dairy Cattle Diets

The dairy industry is under pressure to reduce its environmental impact while producing more milk meet society’s needs. Precision feed management (PFM) one tool that can be used this challenge. A simple definition of PFM provide adequate, but not excessive, nutrients animal requirements. There has been an trend decrease diet nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in the last 20 years. New York herds lowered N by 10.8% between 1999 2019. Milk per cow increased 40% during time, total manure excretion decreased 8.1%. Research results from on-farm trials have consistently indicated lowering crude protein (CP) decreases improving profitability; a 3-year study with 8 herds, CP was 9.7%, 14% lower. Income over purchased cost $137/cow/year. Carbon footprint (CF) also decreased. 19% 2007 2017 reported for United States industry. already made significant strides production on environment; however, there are additional opportunities further nutrient emissions into environment increase efficiency use.