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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.
Dairy Today’s Dollars and Sense farmer contributor Zach Myers his herd’s reproduction program.
Dairy Today Dollars and Sense farmer Ron Gibson discusses his herd’s reproduction program.
Dairy Today Dollars and Sense farmer contributors Brad and Mark Crandall discuss their herd’s reproductive program.
Dairy Today’s Dollars and Sense farmer contributor Brian Medeiros discusses his herd’s reproductive program.
The California Milk Processor Board has awarded $2,000 to students from a Clovis, Calif., high school for winning an advertising competition held to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the “Got Milk?” campaign.
Veterinarian Joep Driessen is a big advocate of bedded packs or compost barns for dry cows and transition cows for three weeks before and after calving, which he dubs “the stress-free calving line.”
Careful observation of dairy cattle can detect problems early. En Espanol.
La antigua formula de Neo-Terramicina será removida del mercado en Agosto En Espanol
En el ABC de la cría de becerras, saltéese la A y la B y concéntrese en la C, nos dice Sheila McGuirk, veterinaria de la Facultad de Veterinaria de la Universidad de Wisconsin.
When thinking of how we produce quality milk, I look at four key factors
By reinventing the dairy department in grocery stores and other retail outlets and connecting consumers with dairy health and wellness, unit sales could increase by up to 3% and dairy department sales by as much $1 billion.
The National Milk Producers Federation’s board of directors overwhelmingly agreed today to move forward with a variety of changes in federal dairy policies.
Economists from the Universities of Missouri and Wisconsin discuss milk productr classification issues within the Federal Milk Marketing Order system.