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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. 2020 Issue 2, 2020: January 19, 2020 Issue 1, 2020: January 1, 2020 2019 Issue 20, 2019: December 12, ...; Created on 16 October 2019
2. Public enemy No. 1 for an hour: (From the Editor); Recently one of my friends asked me for a favor. He runs the quality assurance division for a milk plant and needed some help for an hour. He wanted me to test the plant’s food defense program. I’d ...; Created on 23 February 2015
3. Names in the News: Longs Peak Dairy, Marty DeHoog and Birchrun Hills Farm: (People in the News); Longs Peak Dairy Pierce, Colorado The Greeley Tribune recently published a feature story about Longs Peak Dairy in Weld County, Colorado. The newspaper wanted its readers to know that much of the ...; Created on 23 February 2015
4. Checkoff Watch: Consumers care about animal care: (Management); It’s a simple, indisputable truth: The moment your customers stop trusting you is the moment they stop buying from you. This is true if your business is cars or clothing, meat or milk. Look at what the ...; Created on 23 February 2015
5. Dairy Strong conference offers inspiration: (Event Coverage); Attendees of the Dairy Strong conference, Jan. 13-15, in Madison, Wisconsin, enjoyed a rock-star lineup of speakers including Mike Rowe, host of the hit show Dirty Jobs. Rowe wowed the crowd with his ...; Created on 23 February 2015
6. Your people management philosophy drives execution, results: (Management); In the beginning, your dairy company probably didn’t need to spell out a people management philosophy. You did everything yourself. You managed as you saw fit. As you have grown and now execute and produce ...; Created on 23 February 2015
7. Risk is a four-letter word: (Management); Never in my wildest dreams did I picture myself living and working in Chicago as a licensed commodity futures and options broker. The son of a third-generation dairy farmer, I grew up on a farm in Tulare ...; Created on 20 February 2015
8. Driving forward with only a rear-view mirror: (Industry News); My oldest daughter is only 10. However, much like her father, she has a very inquisitive spirit. She likes to know how things work. She asks a lot of questions. This includes questions about her future ...; Created on 20 February 2015
9. Strategies to protect your investment: (Management); Editor’s note: This article is the final article of a three-part series. Chronic immunosuppressive diseases have a significant economic impact on many areas of a dairy. In the case of persistently infected ...; Created on 20 February 2015
10. When and how to euthanize calves: (Calves & Heifers); Every good calf manager strives to achieve optimal calf health and growth. It’s a fact of life, however, that some calves will get sick. Therefore, managers also have plans for identifying and treating ...; Created on 20 February 2015
11. Make educated choice on transition cows’ calcium delivery: (Feed & Nutrition); The administration of supplemental calcium to combat subclinical hypocalcemia in transition cows is a growing practice in the dairy industry. However, most producers may not be aware of the specific details ...; Created on 20 February 2015
12. The cost of subclinical ketosis: (Herd Health); Negative energy balance (NEB) occurs in early lactation dairy cattle when the energy they need for milk production exceeds the amount available through feed intake. To have more energy, these cows break ...; Created on 20 February 2015
13. How long do your cows receive close-up diets?: (Feed & Nutrition); Properly formulated transition cow rations are an integral part of transition period success. Producers and nutritionists often spend a good deal of attention to getting these diets just right and then ...; Created on 20 February 2015
14. Treating dairy cow indigestion with rumen transfaunation: (Herd Health); Rumen transfaunation: Taking rumen fluid from a healthy donor animal and orally transferring the rumen fluid to a recipient animal experiencing simple indigestion. Rumen transfaunation is a common ...; Created on 20 February 2015
15. Shiloh Dairy: Transporting down cows with utmost comfort: (Herd Health); Down cows are a fact of life for any dairy owner. Although down cow incidents may be reduced through high-quality care and good facilities, they will never be fully eliminated. To deal with this issue, ...; Created on 20 February 2015
16. Record-keeping system for employee training: (Management); Employees’ job performance has an impact on the overall profitability of a dairy operation, regardless of the dairy’s size. Efficiency in a dairy farm (from milk production to pregnancy rates) is partly ...; Created on 20 February 2015
17. Will I be ‘discriminating’ if I don’t hire someone I suspect is an animal rights activist?: (Management); “Yesterday, a young man showed up on my dairy asking for work. He appears to be well qualified, and I took his application. However, I suspect he might be an animal rights activist with a hidden agenda.All ...; Created on 20 February 2015
18. Reduce pregnancy losses with these tips: (A.I. & Breeding); Pregnancy losses are extensive in lactating dairy cattle. In fact, in many cases these losses are underestimated because of the challenges that exist on-farm to accurately determine conception early after ...; Created on 20 February 2015
19. Maximize profits, find losses early with milk pregnancy test: (A.I. & Breeding); An effective cow and heifer breeding program is key to maximizing your long-term profitability. Extended calving intervals can quickly lead to lower overall production and higher reproductive culling rates, ...; Created on 19 February 2015
20. Building a proactive communications plan for your dairy: (Management); It is no secret that in the last few years consumers have been asking more and more questions about where their food comes from. Unfortunately, most of them have little knowledge of agriculture, or a skewed ...; Created on 19 February 2015
21. How to host effective reproduction team meetings: (Management); For many dairy producers, the task of holding a team meeting to increase herd reproduction rates may seem like a great idea in theory, but once the actual planning begins, the questions on logistics appear ...; Created on 19 February 2015
22. Genomic testing options for replacement heifers: (A.I. & Breeding); With the arrival of lower-cost genomic testing options, an increasing number of registered purebred and commercial producers are using these tools for routine sorting and selection applications. While ...; Created on 19 February 2015
23. Finding proof in your genetics: (A.I. & Breeding); Do the continually changing industry selection indexes and recent genetic base change have you questioning what that means for your genetic plan? The recent genetic base change caused an industry-wide ...; Created on 19 February 2015
24. Enlight online management tool: (Management); Dairyman Mitch Breunig’s genomic test results are no longer buried in a stack of papers. With the Enlight online management tool, he now has real-time genetic data at his fingertips. In 2014, Zoetis ...; Created on 19 February 2015
25. University and farm partner to study anaerobic digestion: (Manure); Sustainability is a core mission for the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh. To demonstrate this objective, the university commissioned the building of three anaerobic digesters in the state. The first ...; Created on 19 February 2015
26. Manure management: 10 questions before you invest: (Manure); When designing a new building or retrofitting an existing facility, there are boundless questions that have to be thought through and answered. One of the many areas, and one that I would argue is the ...; Created on 19 February 2015
27. Harnessing microbes – Mother Nature’s cleaning agents: (Manure); Dairy farmers may not have to dig too deep, learn to maintain new equipment or radically change production practices in order to reduce nitrogen runoff from agricultural fields. Good manure management, ...; Created on 19 February 2015
28. Just dropping by ... Who chopped down the cherry tree?: (Yevet Tenney); There is a controversy as to who really chopped down the cherry tree. Was it young George Washington or young Abraham Lincoln? Some say it was Lincoln, and some argue it was Washington. Some even say, ...; Created on 19 February 2015
29. Mechanics Corner: Spray tips for producing high-quality forage: (Barns & Equipment); Effective weed and pest control plays an important role in growing optimal yields of high-quality forage for dairy cattle. Proper pre-season inspection and maintenance of spraying equipment can help ensure ...; Created on 19 February 2015
30. HERd management: Adapting to welcome a new member of the herd: (Guest Blog); Change. I don’t know about you, but I am not a big fan of change. It hurts to see a cow have to leave the farm or a heifer’s first calf pass away. It hurts watching the barn you grew up playing ...; Created on 19 February 2015
31. The Milk House: Jurassic Park farming: (Ryan Dennis); “God help us, we’re in the hands of engineers,” exclaims Dr. Ian Malcom, staring at the recreated dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. It turns out, Spielberg might be a prophet. In 2009, Derek Gow, a farmer from ...; Created on 19 February 2015
32. The Manure Spreader: Farm safety: (Tim Moffett); There was a recent scientific study which stated that living in the city is much safer than living in the country. Apparently, they looked at all the relevant statistics from hospital records. That’s ...; Created on 19 February 2015
33. On the Edge of Common Sense: The Little Engine That Could: (Baxter Black); Have you read The Little Engine That Could to your kids or grandkids? Dr. Tom told me a story that brought it back to me. Two good ol’ Nebraska cowboys were given the task of rebuilding a barbwire fence ...; Created on 19 February 2015
34. The View from Here: Retiring from the field: (Guest Blog); Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part series. I have written hundreds of columns for Progressive Dairyman over the course of 23 years. During this time I have been a public servant, with ...; Created on 19 February 2015