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One of the steps that can often be overlooked is the feed scale and the error that can occur during mixing.

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.

Proficiency is an aspirational state that demands we make the most of the technologies.

For young, technological, and progressive dairy farmers these three areas represent an exciting future.

Similar to human fingerprints, cow noses are detailed, nearly unique, difficult to change, and remain the same over the life of an individual, making them ideal long-term markers of identity.

A recent study at a northern Colorado dairy showed whether cows had to wait a long time to be milked or a little did not have much impact on their subsequent activity and resting behavior.

It might be time to expand tech expertise on your operation.

Lely recently announced it will immediately cease commercial activities throughout Russia and Belarus.

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.

Although dairy producers have made leaps and bounds in the efficiency and productivity of the cow in the last five years, the facilities haven’t kept up to the high-performance athlete that today’s cow is.