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Who “Nose” When a Calf is Getting Sick?
Who “Nose” When a Calf is Getting Sick?

If you want to stay ahead of calf health and catch sickness in its earliest stage, University of Minnesota Graduate Student Abbigail Prins offers a handy detection tip.

How To Outline Clear Direction For Each Role On Your Team
How To Outline Clear Direction For Each Role On Your Team

“The single most important tool to predict peak performance is a very well-developed job description,” Dave Mitchell says.

Know Your Business Pressures, Trends And Actions For Big Breakthroughs
Know Your Business Pressures, Trends And Actions For Big Breakthroughs

Mark Faust outlines a simple formula to improve profitability and create more value for you and the customer.

Robotic Technology Helps These Dairies Become Better
Robotic Technology Helps These Dairies Become Better

Smart farming robotic technology is all in the name of cow comfort, efficiency and productivity. 

New York Dairy Processing Plant Moves Forward with Large Expansion
New York Dairy Processing Plant Moves Forward with Large Expansion

The dairy company will increase the plant’s capacity by 10%, or 20 million gallons of dairy products per year.

There's a New Way to Cash in on Your CI Score on the Farm, Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act
There's a New Way to Cash in on Your CI Score on the Farm, Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act

The new 45Z tax credit passed in the Inflation Reduction Act, slated to take effect Jan. 1, 2025, means a farmer's carbon intensity score will soon be worth more, especially if your corn goes to an ethanol plant.

Here is What Apple's Formula Could Mean for Dairy Technology
Here is What Apple's Formula Could Mean for Dairy Technology

As dairy tech continues to mature, new solutions must be designed with a keen focus on user experience, taking cues from Apple's strategy.

4 Ways to  Focus a Tech  Audit
4 Ways to Focus a Tech Audit

When deciding what technology serves your goals, and to get the most bang for your buck, determine if you need to grow business revenue, increase productivity, reduce costs and/or stabilize daily operation.

VES-Artex Unveils New Cow Cooling Technology: Intelligent Soaker 2.0
VES-Artex Unveils New Cow Cooling Technology: Intelligent Soaker 2.0

VES-Artex has recently unveiled a new soaking system, Intelligent Soaker 2.0, which is designed to help alleviate heat stress while significantly reducing water usage on dairy farms.

Facility Focus: Could Automated Sort Gates be Your Next Employee?
Facility Focus: Could Automated Sort Gates be Your Next Employee?

Technology can give labor productivity a welcomed boost.

Facial Recognition Technology Meets the Cattle Industry
Facial Recognition Technology Meets the Cattle Industry

If you’ve flown internationally recently, you may have had a first-hand experience with facial recognition software.Now that technology has found its way to the dairy parlor.

Robotic Technology is a Long-Term Investment, But Potentially a Great One
Robotic Technology is a Long-Term Investment, But Potentially a Great One

Chad Huyser with Lely says often the question isn’t so much if producers want to invest in big technology, the question is more of when. Especially as producers wade through a tough financial dairy outlook.

A Software Love Affair
A Software Love Affair

Integrating new software into your team can feel like a blind date. Worse yet, a speed date followed by an arranged marriage. This shotgun arrangement may not end well.

Wearable Technology is Not Just for People
Wearable Technology is Not Just for People

By integrating complex biosensors technology onto our farms, we are now capable of knowing more about our cows' bodies than ever before.

New Artificial Intelligence Technology Meets the Maternity Ward
New Artificial Intelligence Technology Meets the Maternity Ward

The “old” AI (artificial insemination) is intended to land cows in the maternity pen. Now, the “new” AI (Artificial Intelligence) is being engaged to monitor them.

11 Key Takeaways From Biden's State Of The Union Address
11 Key Takeaways From Biden's State Of The Union Address

President Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his SOTU speech Thursday. From the economy to his thoughts on infrastructure, the border and climate, there were several key takeaways for agriculture.

Digester Success: It’s All in the Details
Digester Success: It’s All in the Details

The overall benefits an effective digester system can bring to a farm and community are well worth the labor-intensive attention to detail.

Midwest Dairy Announces New Chief Executive Officer
Midwest Dairy Announces New Chief Executive Officer

Midwest Dairy, the checkoff organization representing over 4,000 dairy farmers in a ten-state region, officially announced that Corey Scott of Marine on Saint Croix, Minn. has been named its new Chief Executive Officer.

Will Dairy Exports Make Better Headway in 2024?
Will Dairy Exports Make Better Headway in 2024?

Krysta Harden with USDEC told those attending High Plains Dairy Conference in Amarillo, Texas the financial well-being of the U.S. dairy farmer will be critical to U.S. export success in 2024.

Walmart Makes Plans to Build Third New Milk Processing Plant, This Time in Texas
Walmart Makes Plans to Build Third New Milk Processing Plant, This Time in Texas

America’s largest retail store has announced its plans to build a third milk processing plant, this time in Robinson, Texas.

A Round Up of Inspiring Dairy Women Stories on International Women’s Day
A Round Up of Inspiring Dairy Women Stories on International Women’s Day

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, I think of the many strong dairy women we have working on farms all across this great nation. For all of you farm girls out there, continue to shine bright.

Cuba Turns to World Food Program for Milk Supply as Crisis Deepens
Cuba Turns to World Food Program for Milk Supply as Crisis Deepens

Cuba on Monday confirmed it had sought help from the World Food Program to guarantee the supply of subsidized powdered milk for children.

Fallout From Falling Net Farm Income and Stubborn Interest Rates: Ag Economists Reveal What’s Now at Risk in 2024
Fallout From Falling Net Farm Income and Stubborn Interest Rates: Ag Economists Reveal What’s Now at Risk in 2024

The latest Ag Economists’ Monthly Monitor projects a major drop in net farm income this year. Economists are also growing more pessimistic about the potential for interest rate cuts in 2024.

Will Europe's Farmer Protests Make Their Way To The U.S.?
Will Europe's Farmer Protests Make Their Way To The U.S.?

Steve Cubbage says the upcoming farm bill could decide if the U.S. gets a taste for Europe's recent farmer protests.

Labneh: The New Kid on the Dairy Foods Block
Labneh: The New Kid on the Dairy Foods Block

Some call it concentrated yogurt. Others call it yogurt cheese. No matter the description, labneh is an ancient Middle Eastern dairy staple that is making a fresh appearance in the U.S. dairy case.

Flavored Milk Promotes Successful Sale Results at Kwik Trip
Flavored Milk Promotes Successful Sale Results at Kwik Trip

Three flavored milk campaigns helped drive over 800,000 incremental pounds of milk sales at one of America's fastest growing convenience stores.

Track Star Dairy Farmer Sets New Race Record Just One Year After Giving Birth
Track Star Dairy Farmer Sets New Race Record Just One Year After Giving Birth

Just weeks after breaking her own record for the U.S. women’s indoor mile, Purrier St. Pierre, a dairy farmer turned track star, won the women’s 3,000-meter race at the World Athletics Indoor Championship.

Will Milk Prices Rebound? 8 Important Market Signals to Watch
Will Milk Prices Rebound? 8 Important Market Signals to Watch

Dairy producers wonder what it will take for the market to turn around, as we wade out of this volatile economy. Phil Plourd shares fluctuating signals that are a telltale sign if milk prices will rebound in 2024.

Dairy Feed Co-products: The Ultimate Recycling Story
Dairy Feed Co-products: The Ultimate Recycling Story

It's a secret that needs to be shared - Dairy cows can take the “leftovers” of human food and fiber processing and turn them into high-quality protein.

Take a Buddy with You to the Bunker
Take a Buddy with You to the Bunker

Feed-out of new-crop corn silage has begun on most dairies, and it appears this crop may be more prone than normal to silage collapses.

DMC Delivers its First Strong Payment of 2024
DMC Delivers its First Strong Payment of 2024

Milk protected at the $9.50 level will receive indemnity payments of $761.56 for each one million pounds enrolled.

The Number One Secret to Motivate and Empower People
The Number One Secret to Motivate and Empower People

What does an incredible leader, filled with so much knowledge and wisdom, who has had his hand in the tremendous growth and advancement of an organization like Milk Source, teach employees?

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Facility Focus: The Best Way to Better Manage Group Maternity Pens for Calmer Calvings

Though maternity pens can sometimes feel chaotic to manage, there are additional ways to help minimize stress and create a calmer calving environment for both cow and calf.

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Navigating manure regulations: where do you start?
Navigating manure regulations: where do you start?

Nearly all manure management is subject to regulations. Managing these regulations isn’t simple, but this roadmap helps make it easier.

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Smokehouse Creek Fire is Officially the Largest in Texas History
Smokehouse Creek Fire is Officially the Largest in Texas History

While the Smokehouse Creek Fire rapidly became the state's largest in history, four other wildfires are burning in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle area. (Additional images contained in story.)

White House Shines Spotlight on Healthy School Milk Commitment
White House Shines Spotlight on Healthy School Milk Commitment

The Healthy School Milk Commitment is a pledge by 37 school milk processor to provide healthy, nutritious school milk options with no more than 10 grams of added sugar per 8 fluid ounce serving.

APHIS Bolsters Animal Health Surveillance for Unexplained Mortality Investigations
APHIS Bolsters Animal Health Surveillance for Unexplained Mortality Investigations

A new collaborative effort is helping fund rapid investigations of unexplained morbidity or mortality events in animals – unexpected deaths or illnesses that could signal emerging animal disease threats.

How a Barn Fire and Lost Processor Forced This Dairy to Make Big Changes
How a Barn Fire and Lost Processor Forced This Dairy to Make Big Changes

One thing adversity teaches us is how to persevere. Dig deeper. Plow harder. At least this is what dairy farmer, Todd Benedict, has learned when he faced two nightmare situations—a barn fire and losing his milk market.

65% of the Nation’s Dairy Herd Lives On 1,000-Plus-Cow Operations
65% of the Nation’s Dairy Herd Lives On 1,000-Plus-Cow Operations

While dairy operations with less than 500 cows make up 80% of the nation’s dairy farms, the majority of cows within the nation’s herd reside on farms with 1,000 animals or more.

Georgia Dairy Farmer Teaches NBA Superstars, Including Charles Barkley, How to Milk a Cow by Hand
Georgia Dairy Farmer Teaches NBA Superstars, Including Charles Barkley, How to Milk a Cow by Hand

NBA superstars Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith learned how to hand milk a cow on live television thanks to a Madison, Georgia dairy farm, Big Sandy Creek Farm.

Select Milk Producers Partners with Westrock Coffee to Make New Milk-Based Coffee Product
Select Milk Producers Partners with Westrock Coffee to Make New Milk-Based Coffee Product

Select Milk Producers has recently entered a letter of intent to form a partnership with Westrock Coffee, a leading coffee, tea and extracts provider, to create a milk-based coffee product.

Sexten: Lessons From the Dairy Industry
Sexten: Lessons From the Dairy Industry

Since 2011, dairy cows evaluated using genetic testing has doubled every five years to exceed 1 million annually. That reduced sire generation interval to the point where genetic improvement is at the biological limit.

Remembering Words of Wisdom from My Late Father on His 84th Birthday
Remembering Words of Wisdom from My Late Father on His 84th Birthday

Happy heavenly birthday to my father, Bob. He would also have said that all of you, too, have found success, as you are part of the 2% club that is feeding the world.

South Dakota Governor Supports the State's Massive Dairy Industry Growth
South Dakota Governor Supports the State's Massive Dairy Industry Growth

Travel the I-29 corridor and you’ll see an explosion of dairy cattle. As of January 2024, USDA announced that the total number of dairy cows in South Dakota totals 208,000, up 70.5% since 2019.

Alternative Proposals to the Higher-of Are a Win for Dairy
Alternative Proposals to the Higher-of Are a Win for Dairy

The dairy industry has fundamentally changed in the last 25 years and the current FMMO system is not supporting growth and prosperity across the dairy supply chain. Now is the time to allows USDA to figure this all out.

Producers Can Now Enroll in Dairy Margin Coverage for This Year
Producers Can Now Enroll in Dairy Margin Coverage for This Year

USDA has announced that the 2024 Dairy Margin Coverage sign-up will open Feb. 28 and run through April 29.

Professional Dairy Producers Annual Business Meeting Set for March 13-14
Professional Dairy Producers Annual Business Meeting Set for March 13-14

The Professional Dairy Producers Annual Business Meeting is set for March 13-14 in Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Dairy farm owners and managers can expect a lot of networking opportunities.

Leaders in Ag: Rena Striegel Shares Her Thoughts on Leading With Intention
Leaders in Ag: Rena Striegel Shares Her Thoughts on Leading With Intention

Are leaders made or born? “Some people are more naturally disposed to being leaders, but it doesn’t mean they’re good at it. To be a really good leader, you're made into one through intention and exposure," she says.

Four Steps Veterinarians Can Take To Help Producers Transition To Beef-On-Dairy
Four Steps Veterinarians Can Take To Help Producers Transition To Beef-On-Dairy

Beef-on-dairy numbers in the U.S. will reach up to 5 million head – roughly 15% of the cattle harvested annually – as early as 2026. The sexed-and-beef model of production will play a prominent role in the process.

Your Mental Health Toolbox: How To Recognize The Warning Signs
Your Mental Health Toolbox: How To Recognize The Warning Signs

It’s important the friends, family, and business professionals close to farmers are prepared and able to effectively communicate in a mental health crisis.