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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. Do you know: Help for your heart... In a cup!: (Industry News); Yogurt has long been known as a food that is nutritious and comes with health beneftis. It looks like it now may feature more good news for the heart.; Created on 25 May 2018
3. Ask a Vet: How to handle heat stress: (Herd Health); Heat stress is created when livestock cannot expel enough heat to maintain their core body temperature for optimal production and health. The temperature-humidity index (THI) is a number that combines ...; Created on 25 May 2018
4. Marji Guyler-Alaniz: Featured farm photographer: (People); In addition to photography, the FarmHer organization includes branded apparel, podcasts and a series aired on RFD-TV. How did you get started in photography? GUYLER-ALANIZ: I started shooting on ...; Created on 25 May 2018
5. Checkoff Watch: Industry-wide initiative off to undeniably great start: (Organizations); June marks the kickoff of year two of Undeniably Dairy, a multi-year campaign designed to reignite consumers’ love for dairy while building their trust in the practices of the community – from farm to ...; Created on 25 May 2018
6. 2017 milk value fell short of expectations: (Management); For U.S. dairy farmers, 2017 started with lofty financial hopes. By the end of the year, productivity and income were up from 2016, but weakening prices had tempered those expectations. The USDA’s ...; Created on 25 May 2018
7. Changing the tide on turnover: (Management); Finding dairy labor is tough. Finding legal employees is even harder. But the challenges don’t stop when that individual shows up for work on their first day. More than 300 dairy producers, industry ...; Created on 25 May 2018
8. Five tips for young or beginning farmers during a downturn: (Management); When times get tough, it’s time to sharpen your pencil and dig in. It’s no secret the dairy industry is in a downturn; we’re facing low prices and increasingly tight margins. Young and beginning farmers ...; Created on 25 May 2018
9. Nine challenges in farm succession planning (and how to approach them): (Management); “Not all families have family Christmas.” This was how Ron Hanson, farm business succession consultant and professor emeritus at University of Nebraska, opened his sessions on overcoming family challenges ...; Created on 25 May 2018
10. Go-to books for educating and entertaining kids about cows: (Guest Blog); Cows take the main stage as characters in many children’s stories, but not all books accurately depict life on a modern dairy farm. Whether the audience is a fourth-grade classroom or your own children, ...; Created on 24 May 2018
11. Dairy promoters get creative with Crafty Cow Contest: (People); There is no better time than National Dairy Month to celebrate and promote the dairy industry, and dairy groups are finding creative and festive ways to reach consumers in person and online. Dairy ...; Created on 24 May 2018
12. Minnesota’s Green Waves Farm inspires dairy royalty dreams: (People); It is routine for Mark Berning to ask all of his teenage employees to consider running for a dairy ambassador or dairy princess title. Berning milks 445 cows with eight robots along with his wife, ...; Created on 24 May 2018
13. Kickin’ It With the Cows connects kids, cows and community: (Organizations); Thousands of people, as well as a few cows and goats, will gather for the second annual Kickin’ It With the Cows Run/Walk in De Pere, Wisconsin, on July 7. The event, organized by the Dairy Cares of Wisconsin ...; Created on 24 May 2018
14. HERd Management: The highs and lows of starting a movement: (Guest Blog); I dance and sing on a daily basis in the calf barn. From a young age, I’ve always loved to do both and found dancing helps relieve stress for me. Everyone deals with stress and, if you’re a dairy farmer, ...; Created on 24 May 2018
15. Leading the Way: 5 practices of blue-ribbon winners: (Organizations); Practice, practice, practice makes perfect, and it is what separates the blue-ribbon winners from the rest in a dairy showmanship competition. The 4-H dairy project in Canada is serious business, as ...; Created on 23 May 2018
16. Oklahoma youth immortalizes 4-H calf with self-published book: (People); In a tumultuous time for the dairy industry, strong dairy promoters are more important than ever. Dairy enthusiasts all over the U.S. have stepped up to the plate to fill this role, and a stand-out among ...; Created on 23 May 2018
17. Marketing your value-added dairy products: (Management); A 2017 Penn State Extension survey revealed four primary motivators for starting a value-added enterprise – maintaining a small family operation, improving profitability, having an interest or passion ...; Created on 23 May 2018
18. From foreclosure to 150 herds: Grass-fed yogurt company succeeds with niche mindset: (People); “It’s not the making of the product; it’s the selling,” says Tim Joseph of Maple Hill Creamery about niche marketing. Good farmers may or may not also be good marketers, he said, and there are a great ...; Created on 23 May 2018
19. Is your farm right for value-added dairy?: (Management); Is your farm right for value-added dairy? In most cases, the question asked is: “Is value-added dairy right for your farm?” but maybe it is worth considering the reverse of that question when deciding ...; Created on 23 May 2018
20. Springhouse Creamery offers big flavor with small-scale processing: (People); The final piece of the puzzle was finding the right pasteurizer. New Jersey dairy farmer Peter Southway and his family were seeking one that could gently pasteurize their herd’s milk without degrading ...; Created on 23 May 2018
21. Jazzed about low-lignin alfalfa: (Feed & Nutrition); Have you ever played jazz or listened to it? If so, you know that great jazz musicians play their instruments in all sorts of creative ways, and they are very good at using different techniques to get ...; Created on 23 May 2018
22. Ash contamination in silage results in more than just energy loss: (Feed & Nutrition); When a crop is harvested to be ensiled, it’s a race against time to minimize losses and preserve a majority of dry matter and nutrients in the form of digestible fiber, protein and energy. In order to ...; Created on 23 May 2018
23. Bust up sorghum silage berries for improved feed conversion: (Feed & Nutrition); Alternative forages, such as sorghum or milo silage, have gained momentum with growers and producers. Sorghum, sudan, sorghum-sudan, milo and millet are all tropical grasses (C4 biology; warm-season grass). ...; Created on 23 May 2018
24. 2017 mycotoxin survey results roundtable: (Feed & Nutrition); Companies Neogen – Pat Frasco, Director of Milling and Grain Lallemand Animal Nutrition – Tony Hall, Technical Services – Ruminant Biomin America Inc. – Paige Gott, Ruminant Technical Manager Alltech – ...; Created on 23 May 2018
25. Are you feeding to meet the cow’s genetic potential?: (Feed & Nutrition); Today’s dairy cows are genetically superior to your father’s cows. Intensive selection for milk yield and stature has produced bigger, more productive cows. When you combine this with improved nutrition ...; Created on 23 May 2018
26. Three pillars of a successful fresh cow program: (Feed & Nutrition); Your fresh cow program can make or break the economic success and health of each cow’s lactation. It is important to get these transitioning cows off to a solid start. Three fresh cow pillars that ...; Created on 23 May 2018
27. Use de novo fatty acid analysis to keep rumen microbes on the ‘Yellow Brick Road’: (Feed & Nutrition); Thanks to new research, we now have the ability to routinely evaluate the profile of butterfat as an indication of how it’s being made by the cow. With this new milkfat analysis, we can assess how ...; Created on 23 May 2018
28. Fetal programming: Providing prenatal nutrients to enhance calf development: (Feed & Nutrition); When a cow becomes pregnant, some of the nutrients it consumes will be used by the developing calf. There is no other time in the calf’s life when the development of tissues, organs and systems is occurring ...; Created on 23 May 2018
29. Pitfalls to monitoring dry matter intakes: (Feed & Nutrition); The single-most important metric for formulating dairy cow diets is knowing how much a cow eats each day. However, the consistent and accurate measuring of dry matter intakes is probably the most elusive ...; Created on 23 May 2018
30. Why nutritionists recommend probiotics for dairy cattle: (Feed & Nutrition); Probiotics have been gaining attention in all segments of animal agriculture in the last several years. Although this has been influenced by several factors, the biggest overall driver has been the goal ...; Created on 23 May 2018
31. Palm oil-derived dairy fat supplements: (Feed & Nutrition); When we think of palm trees, we usually think of sandy beaches and coconuts. Though fig- or coconut-bearing palm trees are generally the most recognizable, I am talking about the African oil palm (Elaeis ...; Created on 23 May 2018
32. Just dropping by ... Bringing in the strays: (Yevet Tenney); Growing up on a cattle ranch, I have spent many hours in the saddle on cattle drives. The cattle needed to be moved to greener pastures, no matter what the weather. Some days were bright and shiny and ...; Created on 23 May 2018
33. Life on the family farm under an open heaven: Billy Graham: A man who changed my life: (Guest Blog); Recently, the news came out evangelist Billy Graham had died. Although he was 99 years old, when I heard of his passing, I had to stop and do a lot of remembering. I, along with a lot of other Americans ...; Created on 23 May 2018
34. The Milk House: Trump: From the farmers’ perspective: (Ryan Dennis); Farmers elected Donald Trump as the 45th president of the U.S., granting him 75 percent of the votes in the Farm Belt and heavy margins of victory in other rural areas. Those in agriculture are largely ...; Created on 23 May 2018
35. The Manure Spreader: It depends: (Tim Moffett); Performing stand-up comedy, I’ve had the opportunity to meet farmers from all over the U.S. and Canada. We all have three things in common. We’re broke, we love to laugh, and we never turn down a meal. ...; Created on 23 May 2018
36. 10 tips to enrich your dairy’s culture: (Management); Note: This is the seventh and final article in a series about dairy culture. Since 2015, we have offered the Organizational Culture Inventory (OCI) test to document cultures on dairies. Fifty-three ...; Created on 23 May 2018
37. Two countries, two couples: Excited for what the future holds: (People); With turmoil brewing between Canada and the U.S. in ongoing trade talks, it is important to remember the foundation of each industry: dairy producers. Here, Progressive Dairyman takes a look at two young ...; Created on 22 May 2018
38. On the Edge of Common Sense: Advice column: (Baxter Black); Dear Baxter, As a fellow veterinarian, I am hoping you can help me. My wife, Nancy, has two cow dogs that will readily obey commands to sit and stay – until they get near a cow. Then they chase the ...; Created on 22 May 2018
39. Wrights concentrate on calf care to make better cows: (Calves & Heifers); In 2000 and 2004, Wright Place Farm in Clinton, Maine, decided to grow by buying neighboring farms. In 2012, Brian Wright challenged his brother Steve and uncle Ray, who co-own the 800-cow, 1,800-acre ...; Created on 06 March 2018
40. Dairy Farming Mamas: How I make and market my own cheese without on-farm processing: (Guest Blog); Early in 2017, milk market security weighed heavily on our minds. While our market is safe and our creamery has not dropped any patrons, we were looking for ways to be more profitable and secure a future ...; Created on 22 January 2018
41. Moving ahead: Thoughts from a producer blogger: (People); The key to success in a rapidly changing world boils down to two basic components: open minds and new ideas. Theo Scholze brings both to his farm and uses producer blogging to encourage fellow dairymen ...; Created on 20 July 2017