Housing - Facilities
Though maternity pens can sometimes feel chaotic to manage, there are additional ways to help minimize stress and create a calmer calving environment for both cow and calf.
Whether you’re building a new calf barn or retrofitting an existing structure, there are measures that can be taken to ensure the best possible calf comfort, welfare, and health.
Not all buildings are built the same. Therefore, it’s important to know just how much snow your roof can handle.
A big question on the minds of many decision makers on the dairy is: Should one invest more heavily in hiring highly skilled cow people or in adopting technology that can perform tasks that good cow people could do?
As the thermometer starts to dip lower and lower, now is the time to make sure your calf warming room is in tip-top shape.
DeLaval has announced the launch of their new, re-designed automated teat sprayer, the DeLaval teat spray robot TSR2.
Farming has run deep in the Moes family roots for the past 130 years. Today, the fourth and fifth generations continue to keep their ancestors’ dreams of farming alive.
Each region of the U.S. presents its own challenges with raising calves, with the varying landscapes often dictating the layout of calf facilities.
If raising your own beef-on-dairy animals pencils out, it’s important to make sure your facilities can handle the load.
Dairy farms can often be a slippery place for both farmers and cows to work.
Self-locking head-lock stanchions have become a management staple on most U.S. free stall dairies. But their convenience can become too much of a good thing.
The focus on cow comfort and what that means for facility design has come a long way in the past 30 years.
As we transition the cows into a new facility, take time to watch the cows’ usage of the facility. Cow behavior in the facility will indicate what may need to be adjusted.
Good footing is essential to the health and performance of dairy cattle, especially in areas of high traffic.
Whether they’re used for pregnancy checking, herd health days or A.I. breeding, headlocks come in handy for a multitude of reasons. But are our cows spending unnecessary time locked up?
Tips to keep the heart and soul of your operation neat and tidy.
New technologies, management practices and a growing understanding of soil health is putting the dairy industry at the brink of achieving climate neutrality, leading to additional revenue streams for producers.
When cows are forced to compete for feed, they consume fewer, larger meals with reduced feeding time.
Freed up labor needs to be redirected toward cow management to make robot milking successful.
Old Man Winter will soon be knocking on our barn doors. As we transition from the crisp, cool days of fall to the harsh sting of winter, it’s not too early to start making preparations for the blustery season ahead.
Switching from a herringbone to a robotic rotary parlor.
Dairy farmers are always looking for ways to boost efficiency on their operation. This especially holds true in the milking parlor.
Data from a recent Pulse Poll shows that dairy farmers are most interested in automated milking technology.
Keeping milk equipment clean is one of the most important factors to producing quality milk. However, taking the time to make sure the wash system is working correctly is a chore producers often skip.
What’s one piece of technology that has drastically improved your operation in the past five to 10 years?
Monitoring what’s happening at the pen level, rather than for individual dairy cows, is proving to be the best approach for producers with more than 1,000 cows.
Give your milking parlor the tools it needs to take your operation to the next level.
With so many different technologies available, the decision to invest comes down to matching the technology to the issues you want to address. This starts with managing expectations and asking the right questions.
An investment in a corn processing facility helps Soaring Eagle dairy take advantage of higher butterfat prices.