Dairy - General
Security cameras help dairies know what cows, employees and visitors are up to
Art Schaap, owner of Highland Dairy in Clovis, New Mexico, has been living a nightmare for the past four years. His nightmare is finally coming to an end, but not without the heartache of euthanizing 3,665 cows.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Through a series of pitches, and questions and answers from both industry experts and the audience, the World Dairy Expo Tech Spotlight showcases the latest technologies available to dairy producers.
Cheese and butter prices continue to hold a large price difference with butter around $1.00 higher than cheese. One reason for this is the substantial difference in inventory levels between cheese and butter.
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Cybil Fisher says her work today is a result of 25 years of photography experience, and it’s not the career path she initially set out for.
Earlier today, Hilmar broke ground on their western Kansas future cheese and whey protein processing plant. The new facility is expected to create 250 new jobs and represent $600 million in capital investments.
Milk powder imports hit particularly hard in part due to large current stockpiles
For five decades, various leaders have taken the reins in making World Dairy Expo what it is today. In 2022, Laura Herschleb stepped into the role of World Dairy Expo General Manager.
Every producer knows that dreaded feeling when you find a cow who once was pregnant suddenly show up as “open.”
Labor struggles in the dairy industry and a sharp focus on the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, was recently discussed during an episode of The Dairy Download from International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA).
World Dairy Expo, and therefore Madison, Wis., serves as the meeting place of the global dairy industry — bringing together crowds of 60,000 people from nearly 100 countries.
Patrons of Foremost Farms received a letter stating that changes will be made starting with the September milk payments to compensate for market adjustments. The cooperative also announced two plant closers.
The Schutte family was presented with the Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award. This award recognizes Iowa livestock farmers who take pride in caring for the environment, their livestock, and being good neighbors.
In a strange twist of policy fate, global decarbonization may be stalled by global decarbonization. The issue at hand: sulfur, which is used in the form of sulfuric acid in the production of phosphorus fertilizer.
Checking dry matter more frequently, and adjusting rations accordingly, could be equated to about $0.08 per head for an average dairy farm.
Researchers at Virginia Tech University have investigated what effects infusing extra acetate or propionate, or lowering the pH, would have on thermodynamics of VFA in the rumen.
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The second edition of “Party-Directed Mediation: Helping Others Resolve Differences” is now online and explains how to deal with conflicts among peers and with disputes between superiors and subordinates.
Overshadowed by the health-care debate, high unemployment and a struggling economy, attempts to overhaul immigration and the guest-worker program have not gone far.
California’s Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have given farmworkers overtime pay after eight hours of work in a day and 40 hours in a week.
Every morning at 4, Jim and Greg Moes meet in their office at their dairy’s new milking center to plan the day’s activities. It’s quieter then, before feed wagons and skid steers and milk trucks roar through the operation.
Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested two dairy farm owners in Michigan Wednesday.
With today’s largely Hispanic work crews, finding a midlevel manager to lead the team is never easy.
DeLaval has introduced its prototype robotic rotary, a 24-stall herringbone configuration that can milk up to 800 cows 2X or 540 cows 3X.