Dairy Herd

Morning Fresh Dairy bottled milk and the Noosa Yoghurt brands have grown along with the Bellvue, Colo. farm that supplies the milk.
Six veterinarians who say they were recruited from Mexico to work at the Idaho dairy farm as animal scientists, but were instead forced to work as laborers, milking cows and shoveling manure for about a year.
Puerto Ricans could ease South Dakota dairy labor shortage
While the process of finding an employee who fits the bill remains challenging, taking time to showcase your farm’s culture and making them feel a part of the team could help your new hire stick around a little longer.
Become a place that people want to work, and then when people hear you have an opening, they come to you.
Class III milk futures hold steady in September, but October and November prices fall flat.
Dairy farmers are always looking for ways to boost efficiency on their operation. This especially holds true in the milking parlor.
A new biological treatment could help dairy cattle stave off uterine diseases and eventually may help improve food safety for humans, a University of Florida study shows.
Four in Minnesota sickened, including children, from E. coli in raw milk.
Fair Oaks milk trucks no longer use diesel. Instead, they head to dairy manufacturing plants to fill up.
Judging will be done August 10 - 12.
President Trump has added $1 billion to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program and extended it beyond the end of October.
The U.S. lost 6% of its dairy farms in 2021 and now has fewer than 30,000 farms. According to Oregon Dairy Farmers Association, as of January 1, the Beaver State has 171 Grade A licensed dairy farms.
Dairying in Israel is unique in that both large and small farms embrace technology and innovation.
The nightmare for any dairy producer is to receive notification that they are losing their milk market. Securing a new milk market at the last minute certainly is easier said than done and often turns into crisis mode.
As much of the U.S. struggles with drought this year, China is doing the same
Ag technology startups get a boost from one another and Dairy Farmers of America.
As more farms adopt automatic feeders and group housing to raise their preweaned calves, more, too, is being understood about the factors that impact calf health in such rearing systems.
One of the steps that can often be overlooked is the feed scale and the error that can occur during mixing.
Activity, Rumination Monitors Big Time Labor Savers
More feed equals more milk. This holds true, even in robots.
2020 was a year like no other. Following a year dominated by Covid-19 what can dairy farming expect moving forwards?
Data from a recent Pulse Poll shows that dairy farmers are most interested in automated milking technology.
Organic Valley is launching a pilot program that uses satellite photography to measure pasture health on its dairy farms.
Keeping milk equipment clean is one of the most important factors to producing quality milk. However, taking the time to make sure the wash system is working correctly is a chore producers often skip.
What’s one piece of technology that has drastically improved your operation in the past five to 10 years?
The world’s top 10 largest dairy groups now collectively milk 1 million cows, with the U.S., China, Russia and Saudi Arabia emerging as the dominant players on the global dairy stage.
For young, technological, and progressive dairy farmers these three areas represent an exciting future.
It might be time to expand tech expertise on your operation.
Monitoring what’s happening at the pen level, rather than for individual dairy cows, is proving to be the best approach for producers with more than 1,000 cows.
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