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Constantly utilizing antibiotics to treat mastitis is not always a viable practice.
Switching from a herringbone to a robotic rotary parlor.
With costs going up for labor, feed and everything in between, knowing your numbers is key to helping your dairy plan for the future.
Leaving out just 1 of these prevention measures can be costly.
With beef prices soaring and milk prices in favorable conditions, producers are keeping a keen eye on cows who are not pulling their own weight.
More than 250 dairies across the U.S. use some type of anaerobic digester system to generate electricity or renewable natural gas.
From carcass quality to milk composition, we discuss the deeper issues within the Holstein vs. Jersey debate.
Art Schaap, owner of Highland Dairy in Clovis, New Mexico, has been living a nightmare for the past four years. His nightmare is finally coming to an end, but not without the heartache of euthanizing 3,665 cows.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Through a series of pitches, and questions and answers from both industry experts and the audience, the World Dairy Expo Tech Spotlight showcases the latest technologies available to dairy producers.
World Dairy Expo also takes pride in providing educational opportunities that can help advance dairy at both the farm and industry levels.
And the eight official judges of World Dairy Expo are...
Cybil Fisher says her work today is a result of 25 years of photography experience, and it’s not the career path she initially set out for.
Earlier today, Hilmar broke ground on their western Kansas future cheese and whey protein processing plant. The new facility is expected to create 250 new jobs and represent $600 million in capital investments.
The thermoneutral zone of a calf under three weeks of age is between 59 and 77℉ (15 and 25°C)
High-input costs, low forage reserves and an unpredictable supply chain have elevated challenges within the dairy industry. Some products typically integrated into feed programs, such as palm fats, are on allocation...
For five decades, various leaders have taken the reins in making World Dairy Expo what it is today. In 2022, Laura Herschleb stepped into the role of World Dairy Expo General Manager.
Every producer knows that dreaded feeling when you find a cow who once was pregnant suddenly show up as “open.”
Labor struggles in the dairy industry and a sharp focus on the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, was recently discussed during an episode of The Dairy Download from International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA).
World Dairy Expo, and therefore Madison, Wis., serves as the meeting place of the global dairy industry — bringing together crowds of 60,000 people from nearly 100 countries.
Both American cheese and butter have been on an upward trend for the last 11 years.
Patrons of Foremost Farms received a letter stating that changes will be made starting with the September milk payments to compensate for market adjustments. The cooperative also announced two plant closers.
The Schutte family was presented with the Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award. This award recognizes Iowa livestock farmers who take pride in caring for the environment, their livestock, and being good neighbors.
In a strange twist of policy fate, global decarbonization may be stalled by global decarbonization. The issue at hand: sulfur, which is used in the form of sulfuric acid in the production of phosphorus fertilizer.
Checking dry matter more frequently, and adjusting rations accordingly, could be equated to about $0.08 per head for an average dairy farm.
Researchers at Virginia Tech University have investigated what effects infusing extra acetate or propionate, or lowering the pH, would have on thermodynamics of VFA in the rumen.
De lo contrario no se podrá tener leche de buena calidad
Bonus content: To receive a complete list of “Behavior-based Questions for Agricultural Positions,” send an e-mail to don@dontyler.com . The bleak unemployment numbers rolling out of federal and state government offices month after month are a dark cloud for the overall U.S. economy. But there can be a silver lining for employers looking to fill key positions
The second edition of “Party-Directed Mediation: Helping Others Resolve Differences” is now online and explains how to deal with conflicts among peers and with disputes between superiors and subordinates.
Overshadowed by the health-care debate, high unemployment and a struggling economy, attempts to overhaul immigration and the guest-worker program have not gone far.