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In her years working with dairy farms, Tara Vander Dussen, an environmental scientist for Glorieta Geoscience Inc. in New Mexico, has seen firsthand that the industry has grown increasingly sustainable.

Last December’s early onset of winter weather combined with heavy snow cover may mean some manure storage facilities are nearing capacity. Spring rain has a way of making spring field work difficult, slowing the progress of emptying in-ground manure storages. What to do?   

Due to the cold harsh winter, recent heavy rains, and snow melt, livestock producers should keep a close watch on manure storage structures and pumping equipment.

Will hemp lead to happier cows? It’s too early to say, says Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.

Here are tools to help improve your evaluation of total diet costs.

Progesterone is essential for normal reproductive cycling; it inhibits estrus and controls follicle growth. But, some high-producing dairy cows have too little in circulation.

Regulations and restrictions can make carcass disposal difficult.

A new study harnesses the power of methane from cows.

United Soybean Board monitors and works with industry experts to mitigate foreign animal disease outbreaks.

Ranchers and farmers respond to the atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) case in Florida.

Calves in hutches need extra care when it's hot.

Making quality milk requires attention to detail.

We are rethinking some treatment protocols

Tailor teaching to their learning style.

With more milk predicted for 2019, dumping excess milk may increase, too.

Improve heifer raising efficiency while protecting against respiratory disease

Mastitis is the most expensive disease in the dairy industry. Each clinical case can cost a dairy farmer more than $400 and damages both the cow's future output as well as her comfort.

Use ultrasound to identify and manage low progesterone cows at resynch.

Proper feeding can prevent abomasal ulcers.

Game-changing genetic discovery to help target disease resistance, improve herd health and operational profitability.

The playing field is changing and the assumptions that many farmers have made in the past about spring planting credit lines may be outdated. It is time to act!

The Southeast Uniform milk price for December was $19.04, down $0.03 from November and $0.74 lower than December 2016.

In addition, agricultural producers, as a group, tend to be very independent, do it ourselves types, and the transition into being people managers instead of maybe “livestock or crop managers” is not the easiest.

In addition, agricultural producers, as a group, tend to be very independent, do it ourselves types, and the transition into being people managers instead of maybe “livestock or crop managers” is not the easiest.