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1. Market Watch: Cattle: (Organizations); Click a link below to see updates on Cattle from a specific issue of Progressive Dairyman. 2019 Issue 20, 2019: December 12, 2019 Issue 19, 2019: November 29, 2019 Issue 18, 2019: November 7, ...; Created on 16 October 2019
2. Ask a Vet: How to place an IV catheter: (Calves & Heifers); Intravenous (IV) fluids are the fastest and most effective way to reverse severe dehydration in a calf, and an intravenous catheter allows for extended fluid therapy. Procedure 1. Lay the calf ...; Created on 17 January 2019
3. Laura Finley with Piper View Designs Featured farm photographer: (People); How did you get started in photography? I first started in photography while I was in college at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. I took one class and fell in love with it. However, I have another ...; Created on 17 January 2019
4. Foundation Watch: Donations to support financial literacy are priceless: (Organizations); Dairy producers understand competency in the financial side of the dairy business is critical to its success. Even more critical is for the next generation on our dairies to acquire these skills. The ...; Created on 17 January 2019
5. What happened? What’s next? - Start assessing risk management strategies now: (Industry News); You’re busy – milking cows, managing employees and attending farm meetings and conferences. With that in mind, Progressive Dairyman looks at issues in the news impacting you and your dairy business. In ...; Created on 15 January 2019
6. Articulate why your dairy farm exists: (Management); I first taught about mission statements almost 40 years ago when we developed the Pro-Dairy program in New York state. Over time, my thinking has continued to evolve and, hopefully, improve by including ...; Created on 15 January 2019
7. The digital explosion is already here: (Management); We’ve been watching new technologies, especially digital ones, arrive – but things are about to get interesting. Robots are the obvious technology with the potential to disrupt the dairy industry as we ...; Created on 15 January 2019
8. Five fingers: (Management); I was on a farm in Wisconsin in January; it was a father and daughter team. They were far from a team when I first met them. The daughter had just come home to farm and was working her way into the business, ...; Created on 15 January 2019
9. Beyond commodities: Channel farm stress by nurturing faith, hope, optimism and resiliency: (Management); Editor’s note: The author, an Indiana dairy producer and freelance writer, is exploring resources and methods to help dairy farmers deal with farm stress. Visit Farm Stress: Sources and Resources to find ...; Created on 15 January 2019
10. CEO Corner: Block out time to strategize once a week: (Management); Annual goals, whether outlined at a company’s annual meeting or a personal New Year’s resolution, all have the same challenges. With a full year allotted to accomplish them, the sense of urgency is diminished, ...; Created on 15 January 2019
11. ‘Follow your compass’ at the 2019 Pennsylvania Dairy Summit: (Management); It’s easy to get off course in the volatile and ever-changing dynamics existing in today’s dairy industry. The 2019 Pennsylvania Dairy Summit program will offer encouragement and guidance to help dairy ...; Created on 15 January 2019
12. World Ag Expo preview: Three dairy-related new product winners announced: (Products & Services); Three of World Ag Expo’s top 10 new products in 2019 have direct application in the dairy industry. Progressive Dairyman Editor Walt Cooley interviewed the companies behind these new technologies. The ...; Created on 15 January 2019
13. Does your teat dip protect against harsh winter conditions?: (Herd Health); Several factors can affect teat skin condition. These include weather, housing conditions, teat disinfectant chemistry, milking system settings and micro-organisms. Adverse weather conditions (cold, wind, ...; Created on 15 January 2019
14. Producers in the Netherlands learn from new developments in mastitis research: (Herd Health); As the pressure to use fewer antibiotics continues to grow, animal agriculture needs to be inventive and find different solutions to treat animals or keep livestock healthy from the start. At the 2018 ...; Created on 15 January 2019
15. Food for thought for organic pastures: (Management); Many principles when managing organic pastures are the same as when managing conventional pastures, albeit with some special considerations. In a webinar hosted by Penn State in October 2018, Dairy ...; Created on 15 January 2019
16. Leading the Way: How to set goals and succeed: (Organizations); Many years ago, as a member of Class II of the Holstein Foundation’s Young Dairy Leaders Institute, we were challenged to set goals. Once we had a list written down, we were expected to say our goals out ...; Created on 15 January 2019
17. Just dropping by ... ‘Peace, be still’: (Yevet Tenney); We live in an increasingly noisy world. We are bombarded with honking horns, telephone jangles, cars pumping along with the drumbeat blaring from inside the cab, people yelling at the top of their lungs ...; Created on 15 January 2019
18. Equipment Hub: ‘At what RPM should the engine run?’: (Barns & Equipment); Variable-speed engines power almost all self-propelled vehicles and equipment. The correct engine speed, as revolutions per minute (rpm), will be the best compromise considering economy of operation, emissions, ...; Created on 15 January 2019
19. The Milk House: A good run: (Ryan Dennis); I don’t know what put the idea in my head, but I assume it was one of my father’s stories about making maple syrup as a teenager. Or maybe it was simply that it allowed him to buy a nice car in his teens. ...; Created on 15 January 2019
20. Life on the family farm under an open heaven: A land flowing with milk and honey: (Guest Blog); Growing up as a child, my mom told me a number of times how difficult it was during the Great Depression. Her family had a dairy farm but were deeply in debt, and thus had no money. But since they farmed, ...; Created on 15 January 2019
21. The Manure Spreader: Farmer smarts: (Tim Moffett); We would all like to think we are smart in our own right. Some of us are smarter at some things and not so smart at other things. I’m pretty good with plumbing projects, but you don’t want me to be your ...; Created on 15 January 2019
22. Leadership paves way to partnership at Drake Dairy: (Management); It’s been said the world is filled with dreamers and doers. There are those who dream but don’t do and those who do but don’t dream. A rare find is the individual who both dreams and does. Twenty years ...; Created on 15 January 2019
23. On the Edge of Common Sense: Peasants hunting pheasants: (Baxter Black); Each fall, the governor of the great state of South Dakota hosts his Invitational Pheasant Hunt. This is meant to be a way to show off South Dakota’s state bird, their pride and joy, the wily pheasant. ...; Created on 15 January 2019
24. Begin with the end in mind: 7 tips for building new facilities: (Barns & Equipment); Whether planning to build new or working on a master plan, it can be overwhelming. Each farm sits in a different situation whether it be financial, age, land base, future goals or geographic regions. But ...; Created on 15 January 2019
25. With great wealth comes great tension: (Management); I was sitting in a sea of financial planners, beside the Atlantic Ocean in Halifax Harbor, while Anthony Williams delivered his thoughts regarding the huge amount of wealth transferring going on these ...; Created on 15 January 2019
26. ‘Ag gag’ litigation update: (Industry News); From an award of attorneys’ fees in Idaho to a new legal challenge in Kansas, “ag gag” laws continue to be in the news. Let’s take a look back at recent legal decisions and where pending litigation currently ...; Created on 01 January 2019
27. Kansas dairy places priority on training, learning from employees: (People); After 25 years in business, Ag Oasis of Liberal, Kansas, has learned a lot about how to do things right. Part of that has been teaching – and learning from – summer interns as well as their full-time employees. ...; Created on 20 December 2018
28. Taking the sting out of DON for milk profits: (Feed & Nutrition); High-producing dairy cows are more susceptible to negative impact from stressors in their feed and in their environment. But what matters for performance and efficiency is how the cows respond. Feeding ...; Created on 04 December 2018
29. Sharing my dairy ‘why’: (Guest Blog); Being in the business of dairy farming is not a whole lot of fun these days. With the current price of milk, many of us struggle to pay bills or even survive in the industry. But we keep going. We ...; Created on 25 October 2018
30. Investing in longevity: Ohio dairy builds second facility for mature cows: (People); There is a lot of talk about the longevity of cows, but Ohio dairy producer Lambert VanderMade thought it was important enough to create a second setup just for older cows. “Milking older cows makes ...; Created on 23 October 2018
31. Bye-bye, Beth: Bidding farewell to our iron lady: (Guest Blog); I knew this conversation during milking was going to happen eventually, but when it did, I was not totally prepared. “I think Beth needs to go on the truck,” my husband, Sam, said during Tuesday morning ...; Created on 16 August 2018
32. Web Tool: Teat Condition Portfolio: (Products & Services); Earlier this year, the National Mastitis Council (NMC) launched a new online resource to its 1,000 members. The Teat Condition Portfolio allows users to quickly see and compare various teat conditions. ...; Created on 04 May 2018