ABS boosts global sire lineup
With the release of the August 2010 sire summary data, ABS added sixteen new Holstein sires to its active global lineup.
Among the group of new sires added to the lineup, ...
This year's World Dairy Expo, themed "Crowning Achievements - Golden Opportunities," will be held September 28 through October 2, 2010, in Madison, Wisconsin.
In addition to highlighting some of the ...
The results are in from Progressive Dairyman's dairy reform poll.
Click here to download the pdf that displays the final vote totals broken out into a pie chart by plan and broken out in a bar graph ...
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Jim Schlund
Retired Diesel
Mechanics Professor
College ...
At the end of April, we began a one-of-a-kind Progressive Dairyman straw poll, asking dairy producers to evaluate and choose the dairy reform plan they support most for needed industry reform.
Why ...
The following update is provided by Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), which manages the national dairy checkoff program, and is a producer-funded, nonprofit domestic and international planning and management ...
Here is the charge: “The Chicago Mercantile Exchange cash cheese market is responsible for the failure of milk prices over the last several years.” Those making the charge claim the CME is “thin” with ...
Over the past 10 years, we’ve seen every TV network focus a lot of its new programming on reality shows. I don’t watch a lot of TV, and I’m not a huge fan of most reality shows. But in the past couple ...
The road to better marketing continues for Dave Geiser and Deb Reinhart of Gold Star Farms. After choosing a marketing consultant in November 2009, Dave and Deb began their journey toward better control ...
Moisture can be a real problem in freestalls bedded with manure solids. It aids the growth of bacteria, which can lead to herd health issues. Raking freestalls bedded with manure solids is a common practice ...
Many dairy producers think through their business decisions using some kind of “what if” scenario. For example, “what if I change the ration, and then hot weather hits?” It’s a type of thinking that helps ...
Dear Progressive Dairyman,
I’m a consumer, and I support the Specter-Casey bill.
Signed,
John Doe, Consumer
Over the past several months, Progressive Dairyman has literally received hundreds of letters ...
As dairy producers search for solutions to ongoing reproductive challenges, nutrition remains one of the leading avenues to improve breeding pen success. New research presented at the 2010 ADSA meetings ...
As high summer temperatures give way to cooler fall weather, the seasonal transition offers relief from heat stress. But even with more comfortable daytime highs, the herd may feel the aftereffects ...
Dairy producers many times find themselves in a balancing act when striving to maximize their reproductive and nutrition programs. Nutritional deficiencies and ration imbalances can lead to poor reproduction ...
Fluctuations in the prime rate are of great concern to agricultural operations. The prime rate has traditionally been the interest rate that banks charge their best customers, and it strongly influences ...
Only 115 shopping days until Christmas! I’ll bet you can hardly wait! Likely, you have been losing sleep over what gifts you will buy for those special people in your life. Perhaps you are spending endless ...
TRENDING TOPIC ARTICLE: A.I. & BREEDING
Published: September 1, 2010 print issue of Progressive Dairyman
In this past article, Nate Zwald and Gerbrand van Burgsteden of Alta Genetics highlighted the ...
We all know and sorely miss the “good old” days in which a dairyman was able to call his banker and ask for more money to purchase cows, feed and rolling stock, etc. and then to plan on the money being ...
The short, cold days of winter are just a faded memory, but they will be back. Now is the time to prepare. Insulating a water pipe or trough against frosty temperatures is much easier now than fixing ...
Planning is one of the most important but poorly utilized management tools of businesses. This is true whether the focus is on planning a start-up business, operations planning, expansion planning, strategic ...
One of the critical time frames in a cow’s life is around the time before and after calving. Proper dry cow nutrition and management is critical, since decisions made during this period will have a tremendous ...
When the Whittle family in Volga, Iowa, began contemplating a switch to sand bedding, they knew their manure-handling system would also need an overhaul to make it an optimal change. The end result incorporated ...
Manure spills are typically caused by the mechanical failure of equipment or strictly an accident, much more so than mere negligence, according to recently released information from U.S. extension agents. ...
Darin Mann, of M&M Feedlot in Idaho, discusses his operation.
Manure from livestock operations can have a negative perception by the general public – it can smell, attract flies and, if not handled ...
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A few weeks ago, I was privileged to act as a merit badge councilor for a group of Boy Scouts. I have been a merit badge councilor for Citizenship ...
“A good day’s work is a good day’s work.”
Labor Day 2010 finds us with our head down, shoulders to the wheel, noses to the grindstone and 10% unemployment. The high unemployment is not because we don’t ...
The battle with mastitis has always been an on-going, difficult challenge for the dairy producer. Research shows that in addition to the $150 economic loss per diagnosed case of mastitis from discarded ...
Larger dairy units and the introduction of automatic milking systems will increasingly emphasize the importance of reducing risks for lameness, since immobile animals will not fit into a system with low ...
Back pain is the bane of many farmers and ranchers. A life of lifting, riding, shifting and physical exertion often leads them to a long-term relationship with osteopathic surgeons. Last spring Colorado ...
In 18 years of writing this column, I have written of journeys all over the world, some as short as a month and then a recent one as long as 16 months in Iraq. They tell the story of an agricultural scientist ...
Created on 27 August 2010
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