{"id":2902,"date":"2026-08-01T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T06:48:39","slug":"english-tip-van-de-maand-augustus-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/english-tip-van-de-maand-augustus-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the Month &#8211; August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p><strong>Once again about losing milk prematurely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are experiencing another unusual summer: lots of warm weather, heavy rain in some places, but too little rain in even more.<\/p>\n<p>This also means that the grass, in particular, grew well this spring, absorbed a lot of fertilizer and minerals, and subsequently showed very uneven growth and uptake.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when there is sufficient potassium in the soil or it has been topped up, there is a high chance that the silage contains quite a lot of potassium, particularly in the spring silage that may have been mowed early.<br \/>\nWith high potassium levels, we know that minerals such as magnesium and calcium, which are also considered positive in chemistry, are absorbed less effectively. And it just so happens that these are important for the proper closing of the lock holes from the teats !<\/p>\n<p>So, it is once again very important that this silage is mixed with silage harvested later in the season. And pay attention to the minerals in the silage analyses.<\/p>\n<p>And how warm is the resting spot a cow has just come out of??<\/p>\n<p>See also Tip of the Month &#8211; September 2021<em> (Under category Tips on Udder Health)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again about losing milk prematurely. We are experiencing another unusual summer: lots of warm weather, heavy rain in some places, but too little rain in even more. This also means that the grass, in particular, grew well this spring,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geen-categorie","category-tip-van-de-maand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harrytuinier.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}