Feature Articles
Turn down the heat
Remember the first warm day of spring? Sixty-eight degrees can feel downright heavenly.
But if you’re a high-producing dairy cow, 68 degrees F is beginning to get uncomfortable. In fact, recent research shows that it’s at this threshold — not the previously thought 72 degrees F — that cows can begin to experience the effects of mild heat stress.
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Understand your Hispanic workforce
Awareness of cultural differences can improve your management.
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Reset your resynch
Gain more from these protocols by setting up cows for success.
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Winning back consumers: The first step
To give consumers a better taste experience, one milk cooperative in Florida is doing its part to reduce somatic cell counts and bacteria counts on the front end.
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We’re not out of the woods yet
Hopes that 2010 would be significantly better than 2009 did not materialize. There was some recovery, but storm clouds are reappearing on the horizon as the year comes to an end.
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Time to take action
Drug residues in cull dairy cows have serious implications for your business.
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Only you can stop drug residues
The number of drug residues that occur in meat is very small - 0.003 percent of all cattle slaughtered. However, cull dairy cows are the No. 1 violator when it comes to drug residues. And, it’s an issue that the dairy industry must take care of without further delay.
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Buy now or buy later?
Use these hints to analyze capital purchase decisions.
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Read the label
Sorting through the maze of animal health products on the market, particularly vaccines, can be a challenge.
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Ask before you buy
These questions will help you navigate the maze of vaccines available.
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Technology lends a hand
Robotic milking systems offer one way to deal with the labor and management needs of a dynamic industry.
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