Milk hygiene begins with facilities hygiene

Unsanitary, dirty pens represent high number of bacteria and high risk of mastitis because:

• Cows lie down on dirty beds, and udder become contaminated.
• Manure is scattered on cows’ udders when they are forced to run or walk fast.

Scrape pens every time cows are milked (2 or 3 times per day)

Provide clean bedding 1 or 2 times per week.

Remember: The bed is in direct contact with the udder.

Source: El Companero

1. Can you guess your cow's NEFAs?
2. Vance Publishing's 40 under 40
3. Dairy’s commitment to food security advances through partnerships
4. ERS ag research counts
5. Minn. raw milk cheese outbreak swells to 25
6. Block cheese down a penny on CME

1. 4 rules for growing a business or industry
2. Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
3. Chocolate milk a top post-workout food
4. What do dairy exports mean for Minnesota?
5. D.C. Watch: Farm bill progressing
6. April milk production up 0.3 percent

1. Commentary: Slanting the statistics
2. Buffet concerned about soil and starvation
3. Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
4. Cold spring stunts upper Midwest hay crop
5. N.M. rancher charged with 43 counts of animal cruelty