Dairy - General
Dairy Today’s Dollars and Sense contributors discuss staff training and development on their dairy farms.
Dairy Today’s Dollars and Sense contributors discuss staff training and development on their dairy farms.
Dairy Today’s Dollars and Sense contributors discuss staff training and development on their dairy farms.
Dairy Today’s Dollars and Sense contributors discuss staff training and development on their dairy farms.
How one California dairy transformed its workforce, its SCC levels and its bottom line.
Financing is available to qualified organizations in six states to develop housing for domestic farm laborers.
New Zealand dairy will be milking 1,500 cows with 24 robots by year end.
Western United Dairymen joins the Agriculture Workforce Coalition in urging legislators to fix agriculture’s workforce problems before mandating e-Verify.
At the Turner County Dairy west of Sioux Falls, S.D., finding employees to milk 1,600 cows three times a day isn’t a problem. But dairy owners and industry advocates say if something doesn’t change with the country’s immigration policy and visa programs, America’s food production system will be in trouble.
Animals learn to be handled if they’re handled calmly.
Urge your employees to take these precautions to avoid injuries.
Wearing the proper attire on the dairy is important to farm safety.
Dairy producers in Germany are impressed with the results they’ve seen changing to automatic milking in a rotary.
Dairying is a 365 day-a-year job. Every day, Christmas and New Year’s included, cattle need to be fed, milked and the barns scraped. But who is going to do it on those special days?
Morning Fresh Dairy bottled milk and the Noosa Yoghurt brands have grown along with the Bellvue, Colo. farm that supplies the milk.
Six veterinarians who say they were recruited from Mexico to work at the Idaho dairy farm as animal scientists, but were instead forced to work as laborers, milking cows and shoveling manure for about a year.
Puerto Ricans could ease South Dakota dairy labor shortage
While the process of finding an employee who fits the bill remains challenging, taking time to showcase your farm’s culture and making them feel a part of the team could help your new hire stick around a little longer.
Become a place that people want to work, and then when people hear you have an opening, they come to you.
Dairy farmers are always looking for ways to boost efficiency on their operation. This especially holds true in the milking parlor.
Four in Minnesota sickened, including children, from E. coli in raw milk.
A new biological treatment could help dairy cattle stave off uterine diseases and eventually may help improve food safety for humans, a University of Florida study shows.
Fair Oaks milk trucks no longer use diesel. Instead, they head to dairy manufacturing plants to fill up.
Judging will be done August 10 - 12.
The U.S. lost 6% of its dairy farms in 2021 and now has fewer than 30,000 farms. According to Oregon Dairy Farmers Association, as of January 1, the Beaver State has 171 Grade A licensed dairy farms.
Dairying in Israel is unique in that both large and small farms embrace technology and innovation.
The nightmare for any dairy producer is to receive notification that they are losing their milk market. Securing a new milk market at the last minute certainly is easier said than done and often turns into crisis mode.
As much of the U.S. struggles with drought this year, China is doing the same