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In this video, Ann Hoskins, Vita Plus calf products coordinator, discusses many of the facility considerations needed to successfully feed young calves. From bottle angles to correct pail heights, many factors impact whether a calf can easily and comfortably get the nutrition it needs.

What goes up must come down! With some horsepower, careful planning and a really long chain, Collins Dairy LLC of Greenleaf, Wisconsin, took down the Harvestore silo they were no longer using to store high-moisture corn on their farm. They now place all high-moisture corn on a concrete drive-over pile. Watch what happened here.

Check out scenes from the 2016 Dairy Strong event that brought more than 600 people to Madison, Wisconsin, Jan. 12-14.

Pankratz Farms built a new calf facility that can raise heifer replacements for a future dairy herd of 400 cows. They currently have a 120-cow dairy herd.

During one of the preconference sessions of the Vita Plus Dairy Summit held recently in Baraboo, Wisconsin, 12 women gathered to try their hand at painting a cow.