The key to finding sick calves is to observe calves several times each day.

A medida que más productores manejan a las becerras en forma grupal, se torna mas difícil identificar a las becerras que están enfermas.

Peter Kleiman who owns and operates a 100-cow, 800-acre operation in Wilson, Mich., was elected as president of the FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative board of directors.

Pasteurizing waste milk and vaccination help control Johne’s disease.

By Alfred Wanner Jr.It’s hard to overstate how important dairy cows are to Lancaster County’s economy. According to one authoritative estimate, dairyfarming here generates more than $400 million in revenue annually. Eighty-five percent of that stays in the community, changing hands 2½ times and generating $1.5 billion in total economic activity. Put another way, Lancaster’s economic fortunes rise and fall largely with those of its dairyfarmers.And right now dairyfarmers are worried that 2012 could be another 2009, when milk prices plummeted just as feed costs soared, wiping out profit margins virtually overnight. Many of us lost money on every gallon of milk we produced for a year. Others simply didn’t survive.

The first TB-infected beef cattle herd was detected in July 2005 in northwestern Minnesota. Since that time, more than 800,000 TB tests have been done around the state.