Yearly Archives: 2026

Converting new cattle numbers into daily TMR tonnes before animals arrive — a practical guide to mixer sizing, batch counts, and scale checks for herd rebuilding.

Running an off main mixer delivery wagon cuts fuel, protects ration quality, and keeps your vertical TMR on batch duty through spring peaks.

Third-cut stem length in Ontario arrives wetter and stemmier than earlier cuts. Here's how to adjust your twin-auger VT and prep it for corn silage.

Summer heat reveals TMR sorts bunk problems that winter hides. Here's how to trace sorting back to the tub before the first cow walks away.

Before your VT returns to the silage line, these shop checks catch the wear that turns first corn silage batches into costly downtime. A practical checklist.

Getting herd mixer size right before spring calving starts with three numbers. Here's how to walk a Free State operation through the calculator correctly.

A face order that keeps batch weight accurate starts at the pit face, not the scale head. Here's what experienced operators do differently.

A low auction bid on a used side discharge spreader looks clever until you run the five-year cost. Here's how to do it before the hammer falls.

California dry lots run daily on truck-mount HD mixers need tight discharge, scale, and PTO habits to hold ration accuracy across every pen, every batch.