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Welcome! The Hispanic Resource Center seeks to promote cultural awareness and a better understanding of Hispanic workplace issues. It includes articles from Manejo Lechero, a bilingual training tool from Dairy Herd Management and industry expert Jorge Estrada, as well as previous articles from Dairy Herd Management and useful Web links. Please send comments to Tom Quaife at tquaife@food360.com.
Latest Postings
6/24/2010 8:18:00 AM
How clean or dirty the cows are when entering the parlor reflects not only on facilities hygiene, but also how the cows are handled in the pens by the farm personnel.
6/24/2010 6:48:00 AM
Unsanitary, dirty pens represent high number of bacteria and high risk of mastitis.
6/20/2010 6:45:00 AM
There are two structures that grow on the ovaries of cows: the follicle and the corpus luteum (CL).
6/10/2010 6:20:00 AM
Washington State University Veterinary Medicine Extension has developed some educational programs that address the following issues: reducing death loss and illness, growing heifers that perform, lowering drug costs and reducing risk for antimicrobial r...
6/2/2010 6:24:00 AM
Traditional dry cow therapy is the use of intramammary antibiotic therapy immediately after the last milking of lactation.
6/2/2010 6:21:00 AM
The rate of new udder infection is related to the number of mastitis-causing pathogens on teat ends. Disinfecting teats with a germicidal agent immediately after milking kills most of the pathogens on teats.
6/2/2010 6:17:00 AM
Video training tapes are now available from the University of California Cooperative Extension that may be useful for Spanish-speaking foreman training.
6/1/2009 9:21:00 AM
Communication can be a challenge given the language barrier we find between Anglos and Hispanics.
6/1/2009 8:49:00 AM
Every day dairies may need to remove tires and plastic from the top of bunkers.
6/1/2009 8:29:00 AM
In this day and age, there is shifting going on everywhere — the economy, employment, our industry. Yet daities need to have stable workforces.
