Dairy Herd
University of Missouri student named 2014 National Winner of the Bayer Excellence in Communication Award.
A south-central Idaho milk processing company has agreed to pay a $170,000 fine for dumping wastewater with acidity levels high enough to damage Jerome’s wastewater treatment plant.
Just one supershedder in a feedlot pen can spread the bacteria to the hides of most of the other animals in the pen.
The New York Senate’s debate about declaring yogurt the state’s official snack was intended to teach a fourth-grade class about government. But it became a lesson on legislative silliness from David Lettermen and Jon Stewart.
Land O’ Lakes is planning to close one east-central Wisconsin cheese plant and expand another.
An Ohio-based cheese processor is investing nearly $20 million in a plant its purchased in central Wisconsin.
There are several variables in the vaccination equation: the people, the animals, and the vaccine.
French food manufacturer Danone says its profits slumped 15 percent last year as markets in Europe weakened, and warned that a return to growth won’t come before late in the year.
When temperatures and resulting wind chills fall lower than normal, cattle producers need to pay special attention to newborn calves.
Prominent role for milk, other dairy products maintained in new rules.
“Most [drug residue] violations are caused by treated cows that had no identifying information at the time of milking to indicate that their milk was to be withheld from the bulk tank.” –Norbert Nigon, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
High milk production plus even moderate temperatures (think 70°s) equal the beginning of heat stress.
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.
The short, 10-question self-assessment takes only a few minutes to complete.
Dairy price supports and the Milk Income Loss Contract payments are well above trigger levels
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service released four more reports from its 2007 National Animal Health Monitoring System dairy surveys.
The DCHA (Dairy Calf and Heifer Association) announces the introduction of a Spanish conversion of Gold Standards I and II.
Two dunks are better than one, and three are better yet. That’s why Nigel Cook, a University of Wisconsin veterinarian and humane cow care specialist, is recommending that footbaths be at least 10' in length. Twelve-foot baths are even better.
The emergency action is required to allow the U.S. to continue to export dairy ingredients and products into the European Union.
Both the National Milk and Holstein Dairy Plan would reduce price volatility.
Members of California’s Milk Producer Council upset with International Dairy Foods Association stance on dairy supply management
The dairy industry—Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), the National Milk Producers Federation, the International Dairy Foods Association, MilkPEP and the U.S. Dairy Export Federation--have teamed up to provide science-based information that is already available and can be updated as new information becomes available during crisis management events.