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Starlings can eat 50 percent of their bodyweight in feed a day.
Producers can select a specific mitigation practice, learn more about its effectiveness and relative cost.
The UGA Teaching Dairy welcomed six Jersey heifers in early December. The cattle were a gift from 1985 CAES Animal and Dairy Science graduate C.A. Russell, owner of the Yosemite Dairy in California.
Automatic Milking Systems (AMS, also known as robotic milkers) are slowly gaining popularity on Pennsylvania dairy farms, with approximately 35 Pennsylvania farms currently using the technology.
Managing feed refusals is a balance between providing enough to ensure that each cow has access to all the feed she wants and minimizing waste.
New funding will help researchers study the health-boosting compounds in cow’s milk.
As one producer said, “At some point, livestock become dead stock.”
Dairy students at Louisiana State University use on the farm experience to aid in learning.
The process of developing healthy calves starts at birth.
Drought might have hurt the dairy industry in the Panhandle over the past few years, but a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist said signs are indicating the industry is growing once more.
Learn the do’s and don’t for retrofitting a parlor on a budget.
Cover crops can be beneficial to the environment and also to a dairy producer’s forage options.
New University of Georgia scientist to research heat stress on dairy cattle on Tifton Campus.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will conduct an educational program on the 2014 farm bill’s dairy provisions.
Coagulase-Negative Staphs (CNS) may be the leading cause of subclinical mastitis and yet it has been a mystery. A recently published study sheds some light.