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Midwest can compete to regain market share, if impediments are overcome.

New process converts 50% of manure slurry to drinkable, potable water.

Nutrition, management and repro classes offered.

Meagan Chittenden, Schodack Landing, N.Y., and Olivia Pearson, Lincolton, N.C., have been selected as the 2014 recipients of the Fred Stout Experience Awards.

The fundraising campaign to establish a permanent scholarship honoring Morris B. Ewing will be formally kicked off at the 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Jersey Cattle Association and National All-Jersey Inc. in Alexandria, Va.

A temp-humidity index as low as 73 can cause a two-thirds reduction in conception rate.

Conception rates decline by as much as two thirds.

The best tool against metritis is prevention. Prevention begins with an eye to observe factors that may reduce the immune response of animals or increase their exposure to bacteria and then doing something about it.

The average cost of raising a heifer sot up $600 between 2007 and 2013, to about $2,200 per head.

But farmers must call their legislators to urge passage of reform.