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That stupid pony. How dare he buck me off for asking for a flying lead change. Covered in dirt and too mad to notice the searing pain in my left shoulder, I jumped back on that pony, kept jumping and made ...
More than 200 farmers, nutritionists and industry professionals huddled together at Lambeau Field recently to discuss the latest strategies for successful dairy farming and how to achieve their goals for ...
Ask any athlete … what do you do during the off-season?
It’s the answer to that question that determines if they are a professional athlete or have a day job.
It’s the same thing with farming.
There ...
Editor’s note: The following article is the first in a series of articles from the author after a recent trip to observe China’s dairy industry.
Click here to read the second of the two part series Chinese ...
A new automated washer for ground-mounted solar panels will be available to California dairymen via service contract soon.
The new product, MegaWash, was developed by Coldwell Solar and was recently ...
Danny Klinefelter has been leading the Executive Program for Agricultural Producers for the past 25 years and will share his insight on best management practices producers can and should adopt during the ...
While the refractometer only started gaining popularity in the dairy industry in recent years, the technology itself dates back to 1869. It has been used since in chemistry and food sciences to analyze ...
How much progress have we really made?
One of the more anticipated pieces of forthcoming data in the USDA’s National Animal Health Monitoring System’s 2014 dairy survey is information on the current ...
In 2008, the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL) validated a simple non-invasive technique to sample calves and cows for bovine respiratory disease (BRD).
The method uses a double-guarded ...
Dairy farms historically raised pre-weaned calves in hutches or individual pens. This made feedings easier, allowed for individual monitoring and curbed disease outbreaks. As more farms transition to group ...
Nutrition of dairy heifers is often talked about as a whole without referring to the age and growth stage of the heifer. Even though there is a lot of focus placed on feeding milk-fed calves, little research ...
Mixing milk replacers for winter feeding of dairy calves
The total nutrients consumed by pre-weaned calves affects their average daily gain (ADG). What is even more intriguing is some evidence that the ...
Dairy calves are the future of your herd. In addition to excellent nutrition, high-quality facilities and veterinary care, give calves the greatest opportunity to meet their future potential by having ...
Editor’s note: This article is part one in a two-part series on what to look for during a calf pen walk-through. Part two: Calf hutch walk-throughs: What you need to look for.
Many times when I’m walking ...
Calves are routinely raised in single pens until weaning or even longer, but housing milk-fed calves in pairs or groups is increasing in popularity. This, in part, is due to the availability of automatic ...
Cow 7250 delivered a healthy heifer calf yesterday. Cow 7250 looks good – her eyes look alert, she’s eating fairly well, and she shows no signs of discomfort. Her temperature is normal and, from all outward ...
As technology in the dairy industry expands, so do the abilities of producers to prevent disease and monitor herd health. In light of these advances, what role will the next generation of veterinarians ...
Raising replacement heifers is one of the most costly aspects of a dairy farm. Heifers don’t bring a return for two years or more until they enter the milking string. They are also the future of the dairy ...
Lately the world is buzzing with talk of “climate change.” If the weather is too cold, it is global cooling. If the weather is too hot, it is global warming. The major flips back and forth in the weather ...
Q: My water pump is slowing down, so I thought I would replace the impeller. How do I get it off?
A: (By regular contributor Brad Nelson) Most, if not all automotive water pumps have the impeller pressed ...
I had a lot of fun in college. And by fun, I mean club pizza parties and ice cream socials, of course. But then, I had to graduate and it was time to (kind of) grow up.
After graduation, life changed ...
I could have either chosen to participate in the culture around me or stayed in my room and watched Internet TV. It was a line that became my defense to the people I explained this to, and one that I often ...
A dairy farmer friend of mine told me that on his farm, “They don’t have preventative maintenance; they have crisis management.”
Farming of any type comes with a Ph.D. in jury-rigging. It is an ancient ...
Steve and Barb Pankratz were looking to the future of their central Wisconsin dairy farm when they set out to build a new calf facility aimed at positioning the dairy to continue with three active generations ...
After birth, the gastrointestinal tract of ruminants undergoes important anatomical changes. At birth, calves possess a very small microbial population in the rumen.
Establishment of rumen microbiota ...
Navel dipping, arguably the very first husbandry act in a dairy calf’s life, is not only the least costly investment in its entire life cycle, but also the most cost-effective management tool to ensure ...
A fecal examination is a useful tool in determining the presence and level of an internal parasite infection. Veterinarian Dr. Katie Speller (formerly with Animart) provided the following steps to conduct ...
One in 8 million. That’s the probability of triplet calves being born at all – let alone a set of three healthy, happy heifer calves to a cow with no known history of multiple births.
Despite the statistical ...
The Dairy Worker Safety Training Using Mobile Technologies, provided by the University of Texas School of Public Health and the New Mexico State University Dairy Extension, is a new learning initiative ...
There is a lot to think about when hiring an employee, including recruiting, interviewing, checking references and selecting the right individual. Don’t let those efforts go to waste by not following through ...
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