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1. 1008 PD: The sun never sets on feed & fuel consumption: (From the Editor); This past month I visited Great Britain, specifically Scotland and England, for the first time. (See articles 'Progressive Events', 'Do the pastures get any greener than this?', and 'Symposium discusses ...; Created on 30 June 2008
2. 1008 PD Progressive Events: Lallemund nutrition symposium and dairy tours: (Event Coverage); More than 110 representatives from 19 different countries accepted an invitation from Lallemand Animal Nutrition to attend the company’s nutrition symposium and dairy tours in Edinburgh, Scotland, in June. ...; Created on 30 June 2008
3. 1008 PD: Do the pastures get any greener than this?: (People); Pastures and grass silage packs are the mainstays on David Brewster’s Scottish dairy. Throughout the year, the temperate Scottish weather will drop between 60 and 70 inches of rain on his more than 800 ...; Created on 30 June 2008
4. 1008 PD: Symposium discusses ensiling, feeding distiller grains: (Event Coverage); The 12th annual Distillers Grains Symposium, hosted by the Distillers Grains Technology Council, was held May 21-22, 2008, in Kansas City, Missouri. Among the 210 attendees were representatives from the ...; Created on 30 June 2008
5. 1008 PD: Study: Efforts to stop illegal immigration has no effect on amount of traffic: (Industry News); For the past 15 years, the U.S. has had a strategy of immigration control that overwhelmingly emphasizes border enforcement, coupled with extremely weak worksite enforcement in the absence of efforts to ...; Created on 30 June 2008
6. 1008 PD: Long-day lighting: Now a profit tool for all dairy operations: (Barns & Equipment); Most dairy farmers are facing an unfavorable milk-to-feed cost index, and some are looking for an alternative to using rBST.What tools remain available to improve the productivity of the many types and ...; Created on 30 June 2008
7. 1008 PD: What can your milking parlor do for you?: (Barns & Equipment); We want it all when it comes to the milking parlor — high throughput, low costs, high-quality milk and herd health.We can achieve these goals, but first we must identify which is most important to the ...; Created on 30 June 2008
8. 1008 PD: What’s your genetic selection strategy for 2016?: (A.I. & Breeding); What will 2016 look like for the dairy business? It’s hard to imagine a picture that is dramatically different from today, since the horizon is only eight years away. However, in the March 22, 2008 issue ...; Created on 30 June 2008
9. 1008 PD: Effective forward contracting equals forward profiting: (Management); The Farm Bill requires that the USDA permit forward contracting of milk as an alternative to minimum prices. Discussions, and past use, of forward contracts have generally meant fixing a price for a period ...; Created on 30 June 2008
10. 1008 PD: Nitrogen excretion in dairy cows: Is 1 percent crude protein important?: (Manure); To comply with the new water quality regulation, some dairy producers in California will have to control manure production and minimize nitrogen intake and excretion in lactation animals. Crude protein ...; Created on 30 June 2008
11. 1008 PD: Manage for nutrition and welfare of the dairy cow: (Feed & Nutrition); One of the most important challenges that any animal faces is ensuring its daily food supply. In intensive dairy cattle production, cows are completely reliant on our ability and knowledge to provide them ...; Created on 30 June 2008
12. 1008 PD: Swamp coolers for cows: (Barns & Equipment); Swamp coolers are not as common in homes as they once were, but the same technology that cooled homes for decades can relieve your cows from the extreme heat of summer. One producer in Minnesota tried ...; Created on 30 June 2008
13. 1008 PD: What’s behind heat-stress-induced milk depression?: (Herd Health); Heat stress is both a cow health and an economic issue wherever dairies exist in North America. It’s estimated impact on American agriculture is nearly $2 billion annually, and the dairy industry is the ...; Created on 30 June 2008
14. 1008 PD: Help cows beat the heat with good management: (Feed & Nutrition); Heat stress can cost dairy producers big bucks, especially during the summer months. Research has shown that milk production losses alone range from $1.45 to $2.90 per cow per day. In addition, reproductive ...; Created on 30 June 2008
15. 1008 PD: Which heat-abatement systems are effective for cooling cows?: (Barns & Equipment); Every summer, farmers prepare their dairy facilities for the negative effects of heat stress to avoid losses in milk production, feed intake and reproductive performance. Heat stress on dairy farms can ...; Created on 30 June 2008
16. 1008 PD: Summer heat stress and nutrition: (Feed & Nutrition); One of the most significant environmental challenges dairy farmers face each year is dealing with the summer heat and humidity and its affect on cows and milk production. Dairy cows produce a lot of internal ...; Created on 30 June 2008
17. 1008 PD: The five key comfort zones of the dairy cow: (Barns & Equipment); There was a time when the best way to observe cow behavior was to pull up a chair, take up residence in the barn and watch the cows. Then came modern technology, and we could use timelapse video photography ...; Created on 30 June 2008
18. 1008 PD: Feeding a top performer to beat the summertime heat: (Feed & Nutrition); Dairy cows perform much like world-class athletes, exerting high levels of energy for daily maintenance and to maintain high levels of production, says Dr. Joe West, University of Georgia dairy scientist. ...; Created on 30 June 2008
19. 1008 PD: Cottonseed scarcity may cause concerns this fall: (Industry News); With all of the talk about biofuels, and with oil prices reaching an all-time high, crops such as corn, soybeans and wheat have skyrocketed – in demand, production and price. Not surprisingly, farmers ...; Created on 30 June 2008
20. 1008 PD: Just dropping by ... Symbols of our nation: (Yevet Tenney); On Memorial Day, we took our children to the cemetery to place flowers of the graves of our ancestors and to remember.As we wove in and out among the headstones, we noticed many faded flags waving among ...; Created on 30 June 2008
21. 1008 PD: On the Edge of Common Sense: High price of wheat: (Baxter Black); The record-high price of the essential global commodities – wheat, rice and soybeans – has been an overdue and much welcome occurrence for farmers worldwide. Commodities that have lagged so far behind ...; Created on 30 June 2008
22. 1008 PD: How to select and then maintain your fans: (Barns & Equipment); When reducing heat stress in dairy herds, fans are used to enhance the evaporation of moisture from a cow’s back. Fan selection should be based on performance rather than horsepower and diameter. Certified ...; Created on 30 June 2008
23. 1008 PD: International basics for parlors and maintenance: (Barns & Equipment); The milk and other dairy products we consume today are produced by dairy animals – mostly cows. The milk is intended for the calf, but through centuries of domestication and breeding, man has created a ...; Created on 30 June 2008
24. 1008 PD: Managing the heat-stressed cow to improve reproduction: (A.I. & Breeding); A high-producing cow starts to experience an increase in body temperature at air temperatures as low as 80°F. As a result, heat stress is a problem throughout most of the country, even in places as far ...; Created on 30 June 2008
25. 1008 PD: Udder preparation for quality milk production: (Barns & Equipment); Key to the consistent success of the modern dairy is the profitable production of high-quality milk. Every dairy knows this is a constant challenge. Expanding global dairy markets and worldwide consumer ...; Created on 30 June 2008
26. 1008 PD: On the Edge of Common Sense: Horse slaughter ban a year later: (Baxter Black); “You can die of good intentions” That is the best summary I can give of an editorial I read recently about the bill to ban horse slaughter that was passed last year. The editor and I had discussed the ...; Created on 30 June 2008
27. 1008 PD: The View from Here: Let us never forget: (Guest Blog); As I write this column, Memorial Day is two days away. We honor those countrymen and women serving around the world, including those wounded, injured and killed in action. Across this great country, parades ...; Created on 30 June 2008