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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. What happened? What’s next? - Tariffs, indemnities and a lawsuit settlement: (Industry News); You’re busy – milking cows, watching rain clouds and making hay. With that in mind, Progressive Dairyman looks at issues in the news impacting you and your dairy business. In recognition of your time, ...; Created on 11 June 2019
3. Checkoff Watch: Early NFL passion blossomed into partnership that benefits kids: (Organizations); I was a big Green Bay Packers fan as a kid growing up in the 1960s. Quarterback Bart Starr was my hero, and I did a few book reports on him as well as Coach Vince Lombardi. I couldn’t get enough of ...; Created on 11 June 2019
4. Passing the torch: Tips for farm succession planning: (Management); Sometimes farm succession planning comes down to one question: Do you want the farm to continue to be a family farm or not? “Do you want to maintain the family farm by passing it on to one of your ...; Created on 11 June 2019
5. Cut ‘the numbers guy’ some slack: (Management); I was a decent fiddle player and often got standing ovations when I let it rip in nursing homes. Yet I hadn’t played for over a decade until I wanted to impress my fiancee. Let’s just say the fiddle should ...; Created on 11 June 2019
6. Some things I think: (From the Editor); One of the lingering side effects of growing up on a dairy farm is that I continue to wake up before 5 a.m. – despite being removed from the morning milking schedule for several decades. Then, during ...; Created on 11 June 2019
7. Adjusting to generational gaps: Tips for working together better: (Management); Having multiple generations of owners and employees on the farm comes with its own set of benefits and battles. How can your business be multigenerational and work well together, especially when it seems ...; Created on 07 June 2019
8. Conflict management and resolution can lead to growth: (Management); When there’s conflict at work, the manner in which it is handled and resolved affects both the individuals involved and the organization itself. Whether the tension is between co-workers, managerial staff ...; Created on 07 June 2019
9. Recruiting like a pro: A checklist for dairy farms: (Management); I often refer to the incredible changes in dairy farms from my time growing up on the family farm in the thumb of Michigan to today. Let’s think about what has happened with feeding cows. When I was growing ...; Created on 07 June 2019
10. Keep eroding equity or exit dairying? It’s time to take control of your future: (Management); “We are just going to hang on and hope for better days ahead.” How many times have you heard fellow dairy producers proclaim those words – or even uttered them yourself? Throughout the years and ...; Created on 07 June 2019
11. Detoxifying free radicals to alleviate oxidative stress: (Herd Health); Prevention and treatment of oxidative stress (OS) could be the solution to many of the dairy health, production and welfare issues of our time. Dr. Melissa Behr of the South Dakota State Diagnostic Lab ...; Created on 07 June 2019
12. Dairy gains insight from a stress assessment: (Herd Health); Are you stressed about planting crops this spring? Are you stressed that it will be too wet or too dry when that time comes? Are you stressed about the current and forecasted milk price? Are you stressed ...; Created on 07 June 2019
13. Protected B vitamins can help boost the immune response during the transition period: (Herd Health); The transition period is challenging for the dairy cow since the cow needs to adapt very quickly to the calving process, the sudden change from a non-lactating to a lactating stage and to the preparation ...; Created on 07 June 2019
14. Bovine leukemia virus in your herd? Get rid of it: (Herd Health); Many dairy farmers have seen animals suffering from multiple tumors in the lymph nodes; this is just the tip of the iceberg. Many infected animals will not be clearly ill but are not producing to the best ...; Created on 07 June 2019
15. The missing piece to your mastitis management puzzle may be the dry cow: (Herd Health); Anyone involved in dairy farming knows the frustration of a mastitis infection. It’s costly – maybe your favorite cow was culled too soon or your milk premiums took a hit. One clinical mastitis case alone ...; Created on 07 June 2019
16. Salmonella Dublin: Clinical challenges and control: (Herd Health); A contagious disease once seen as a “California problem” has now crept into every major dairy-producing state in the U.S., and it’s wreaking havoc on infected young calves and adult cows. According ...; Created on 07 June 2019
17. Subclinical ketosis: How to detect, treat and minimize impact in your herd: (Herd Health); Subclinical ketosis: The quiet milk thief, sickening cows and frustrating farmers nationwide. The bad news: Detecting it effectively and efficiently on-farm can be costly and challenging. The good ...; Created on 07 June 2019
18. Select a manure system to meet the needs of the operation: (Manure); Dairy operations looking to add a manure processing or treatment option to the farm need to first understand what is driving this change. “You need to think about all of these systems that go in; what ...; Created on 07 June 2019
19. On-farm nitrogen management requires a multifunctional approach: (Manure); On-farm nitrogen management is important to ensure you are meeting production goals, maximizing return on investment and protecting air and water resources. Nitrogen is essential to the growth of all plants ...; Created on 07 June 2019
20. Don’t step into a confined manure space until …: (Manure); Imagine a regular day on the farm. You’re going about your chores as usual until the pump in the manure transfer pit under the barn breaks. You go down in the pit to fix it, but suddenly you’re overcome ...; Created on 07 June 2019
21. Just dropping by ... The ugly ducklings of our day: (Yevet Tenney); When I was young, I lived on a ranch where we had all kinds of animals. Chickens were plentiful, and I gathered eggs and have seen new baby chicks. Sometimes a goose egg was placed under a setting hen ...; Created on 07 June 2019
22. HERd Management: Count dairy trials as pure joy: (Guest Blog); Have you ever noticed that when you have to break some seemingly bad news to your young children, they aren’t nearly as bothered by it as you anticipated? A friend from school moves away, one of their ...; Created on 07 June 2019
23. The Milk House: Love, murder and slurry: (Ryan Dennis); If you’re going to murder your love rival, all the better if he has a cool name. Currently, an Irish jury is deliberating whether to convict 50-year-old farmer Patrick Quirke for killing part-time DJ ...; Created on 07 June 2019
24. Gleaner Community Food Bank: Sustainability with a community impact: (People); Editor’s note: Progressive Dairyman features recipients of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy’s eighth annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards. Three farms – Cinnamon Ridge Farms of Donahue, Iowa; Majestic ...; Created on 07 June 2019
25. General Mills and Foremost Farms: Seeking sustainability throughout the supply chain: (People); Editor’s note: Progressive Dairyman features recipients of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy’s eighth annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards. Three farms – Cinnamon Ridge Farms of Donahue, Iowa; Majestic ...; Created on 07 June 2019
26. Philip Verwey Farms: Creative solutions to power sustainability: (People); Editor’s note: Progressive Dairyman features recipients of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy’s eighth annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards. Three farms – Cinnamon Ridge Farms of Donahue, Iowa; Majestic ...; Created on 07 June 2019
27. Majestic Crossing Dairy: Seeking sustainability through unbounded innovation: (People); Editor’s note: Progressive Dairyman features recipients of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy’s eighth annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards. Three farms – Cinnamon Ridge Farms of Donahue, Iowa; Majestic ...; Created on 06 June 2019
28. Cinnamon Ridge Farms: Uncovering feed sources leads to sustainability and profitability: (People); Editor’s note: Progressive Dairyman features recipients of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy’s eighth annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards. Three farms – Cinnamon Ridge Farms of Donahue, Iowa; ...; Created on 06 June 2019
29. 2019 award winners spotlight dairy’s drive for sustainability: (People); The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy’s eighth annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards were presented during a ceremony on May 8 in Rosemont, Illinois. Through creative problem solving, this year’s ...; Created on 06 June 2019
30. The Manure Spreader: Summertime: (Tim Moffett); Summer solstice is supposed to be the longest day of the year. It generally occurs between June 20 and June 22. Scientists say the sun shines longer on this day, which makes this the longest day of summer. ...; Created on 05 June 2019
31. Giving back to the next generation: Never miss an opportunity to work with youth in agriculture: (Guest Blog); I am a dairy farmer who didn’t grow up on a farm, but I always had some desire to be around dairy cattle from exposure to my dad’s family farm as a small child. That seed planted in my heart as a kid led ...; Created on 09 April 2019
32. How to shockproof your farm’s finances: (Management); “Nothing I say is going to change the economic outlook of the dairy industry,” John Blanchfield said, as he began his presentation on helping producers shockproof their finances in the current dairy market. ...; Created on 26 March 2019
33. 3 valuable variables indicated by rumination monitoring systems: (Herd Health); Rumination, or a cow chewing her cud, is a vital part of a cow’s digestive system. If you examine a herd at any point in the day, you’re almost sure to find a majority of the cows ruminating. With advances ...; Created on 08 March 2019
34. Five ways rumination data can bolster herd health: (Herd Health); Early detection and prompt treatment of sick cows helps minimize the detrimental effects on milk production, reproduction and overall well-being. Unfortunately, by the time a cow goes off feed, spikes ...; Created on 08 March 2019