Farm Progress

Photos: Dairyman grows feed beets to reduce costs

Cary Blake 1, Editor

July 18, 2013

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Paul Rovey, a dairyman and entrepreneur, has found a new crop, feed beets, which in early field trials appears to be cheaper to grow while maintaining the high nutritional needs for his 2,000 cow Jersey dairy herd. Beets require fewer crop inputs including one-third less water and less nitrogen, compared to corn silage..

About the Author(s)

Cary Blake 1

Editor, Western Farm Press

Cary Blake, associate editor with Western Farm Press, has 32 years experience as an agricultural journalist. Blake covered Midwest agriculture for 25 years on a statewide farm radio network and through television stories that blanketed the nation.
 
Blake traveled West in 2003. Today he reports on production agriculture in California and Arizona.
 
Blake is a native Mississippian, graduate of Mississippi State University, and a former Christmas tree grower.

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