By the time you receive this July 21 issue of the magazine, Congress and the President will be at a make-or-break moment on a bargain to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default on American debt, which ...
The Cunard Line’s Queen Elizabeth II, like all cruise ships, is an entertainment venue on the high seas. Center stage for the QE II is the Grand Lounge, a two-story room with a stage at one end. Passengers ...
Chances are, you attended at least one seminar this past year where one of the speakers gave advice on how to improve your business management skills. It always seems that these “experts” essentially say ...
Dairy producers have continued to see favorable profit margins since the end of the first quarter. While feed costs have been climbing, this has been more than offset by higher milk prices so that the ...
Often in our dairy lives we meet with different situations that you can label either irritating or costly. Some of these irritations (pet peeves) can be from either family members or employees. But beyond ...
Here are some comments Progressive Dairyman has received regarding the raw milk poll.
Yes: We need to be honest with consumers and tell them we as dairymen produce the very best product for humans, as ...
On June 23, Rep. Timothy V. Johnson, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Rural Development, Research, Biotechnology and Foreign Agriculture held a public hearing to review and ...
Most feed prices are nearly double historical prices. There is a lot of debate about whether feed prices will ever go back down to historical prices, or how much the prices must go back down and when. ...
Since the middle of the 20th Century, the U.S. dairy industry has embraced corn silage as the No. 1 most economical and energy-dense forage fed to cows and heifers. Many millions of acres are planted in ...
When it comes to forage particle size, dairy producers could take a lesson from Goldilocks. Not too long. Not too short. But what is “just right?”
Forage particle length affects many aspects of rumen ...
Dairy producers and their nutritionists are constantly looking for ways to improve forage yield and nutritional quality. This includes areas such as:
Hybrid or variety selection
Use of crop consultants ...
Milk replacer is formulated to balance major nutrients (protein, fat and carbohydrates) with an optimal fortification of vitamins and minerals. When designing any nutrition program, the calf’s health, ...
Heat stress has long-term consequences on the reproductive efficiency of dairy cattle. Dairy cows begin to show signs of heat stress when the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) reaches 72. This heat index ...
Raising healthy calves is one of the most important facets to a dairy’s success. Emphasis should be placed on calf housing as one of the key elements in managing overall calf health. In this roundtable, ...
The investment made in young heifers today lays the groundwork for future herd performance and profitability. Heifers are a group of animals that may be overlooked at a time of tight margins.
However, ...
Editor’s note: The following article is the first in a series discussing electrolyte formulation and function in calves.
Electrolyte comparisons show up in articles and publications from time to time, ...
The health and viability of a newborn calf immediately impacts your profit. Caring for cows prior to calving and at calving time requires patience, keen attention, time, labor and expenses. There are ...
(Setting: Church basement with congregation members sitting around in a circle waiting. Enter ACTRESS playing the part of the never-prepared, always-too-busy person we know in all of our lives. She rushes ...
Proper maintenance and management of your tires can have far-reaching effects on your operation – from the performance of your equipment to the productivity of your fields. A few pounds of air pressure ...
My father, in spite of himself, scratched the back of the cat’s neck when he passed by. The cat lifted his head and looked up at him. He followed the trajectory of my father’s hand with blank eyes as it ...
Location: Sioux Center, Iowa
Age: 36
My dairy’s history: Our dairy was established in the late 1930s by my grandpa. When my dad returned from service in the Navy in the mid-1960s, he took over the ...
Location: Delta, Colorado
Age: 58
My dairy’s history: My brothers and I grew up on the dairy helping Dad. After the flood, Tina and I made the decision to move to higher ground from my father’s dairy ...
Location: Hobbs, New Mexico
Age: 59
My dairy’s history: I started dairying in 1973. I had a cash-and-carry milk plant for 25 years, milking 200 cows and selling all fluid milk to stores in the local ...
Location: Newberry, South Carolina
Age: 64
My dairy’s history: The dairy was started by my father in 1949. My brother Elliott and I joined when we were grown, and now my son, Scott, and Elliott’s son, ...
There is more than one definition for pasture roping, as Carter pointed out to me. It was during calving season. He and his wife were making the 5 p.m. heifer check. They were in the pickup driving through ...
This spring the Western States Dairy Producer Trade Association held the Western Dairy Air Quality Symposium in Sacramento, California. Researchers from across the country presented the latest information ...
BVD disease is one of the most complicated viral diseases in dairy cattle worldwide. Terms associated with BVD such as “cytopathic” vs. “noncytopathic,” “persistent infection” vs. “transient infection,” ...
Saliva production is very important to high-producing dairy cows because it provides a means to buffer the rumen. High-producing cows generally need to be fed a diet with low forage-to-concentrate ratio ...
It was a chance for Kurt to shine. He was father of the bride. Kurt is a seasoned, tough-hided, bow-legged Wyoming cowboy. He was not the kind of person you would ask to help you select the bridesmaids’ ...
On a hot and humid Memorial Day weekend, I visited the Arlington National Cemetery. There, on the green hills and beneath the frequent shade trees, the white stone markers jut up so we may read the attributes ...
Created on 13 July 2011
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