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More feed equals more milk. This holds true, even in robots.

As more farms adopt automatic feeders and group housing to raise their preweaned calves, more, too, is being understood about the factors that impact calf health in such rearing systems.

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.

2020 was a year like no other. Following a year dominated by Covid-19 what can dairy farming expect moving forwards?