Feature Articles
Should you use that feed additive?
Should I or shouldn’t i? Over the last 12 months, you’ve probably been weighing the pros and cons of your ration ingredients, including feed additives.
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Ask hard questions when it comes to direct-fed microbials
With direct-fed microbials, or DFMs, it’s difficult to know exactly what you are getting unless you ask the right questions.
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Is she pregnant or isn’t she?
Here’s an update on the tools to detect bovine pregnancy status.
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Is this the heifer you want?
Set goals and objectives for raising heifers.
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Do your calves get a gold star?
New industry benchmarks for calf-raising are available.
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Take her higher
Increased nutrition in the pre-weaning stage can make your calves healthier.
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Examine your enterprises
A recent survey by the Extension Risk Management Education Regional Centers and the Center for Farm Financial Management at the University of Minnesota indicates that only 8 percent of producers are well-equipped, in terms of business-management skills, to navigate their business through a period of financial stress.
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Stockmanship skills wanted
Here’s why you should adopt these principles on your dairy.
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Enter the mind of a marketer
Here’s how to get in the right mind-set to make risk-management decisions.
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When will immigrant workers emerge from the shadows?
With the nighttime temperature a chilly 16 degrees, those who attended a candlelight vigil for José Obeth Santiz Cruz were bundled up in coats, scarves, hats and gloves.
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Get creative with compensation
Chances are, wage or benefit hikes have been a little scarce around your dairy lately. And it’s tempting to adopt the attitude that “you are lucky to even have a job, so don’t even think about anything extra.”
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