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Set up a culturing lab to identify the causes of mastitis and treat accordingly.

‘Numbers are only useful in decision making if they are used.’ Lane Ely, University of Georgia.

As summer temperatures rise, beef and dairy animals benefit from heat abatement, says Joe Zulovich, a University of Missouri Extension specialist in livestock housing systems.

While it’s difficult to gauge the health of the farm economy, John Phipps says now is the time to sit down at the computer and enter yields and prices and costs to get a peek at a possible future.

We can improve fertility without impacting other production or health traits.

USDA is now using premium and supreme hay prices from eight major dairy states in its revised formula.

Do everything to maintain dry matter intake to maximize component levels.

Dairy farmers should consider alfalfa as a solution on prevent plant acres.

Elections were held at recent Holstein Association annual meeting.

Best practices from 25 pilot projects across the U.S., the European Union and Russia will be studied.