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1. 1310PD: Breeders' Circle: (A.I. & Breeding); 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, ...; Created on 30 August 2010
2. World Dairy Expo Preview [Updated September 21]: (Event Coverage); 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 ...; Created on 20 September 2010
3. PD POLL, final results: Dairy Reform: (Industry News); 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 ...; Created on 01 September 2010
4. August 2010 A.I. Tables: (A.I. & Breeding); Click the link below to download a two-page pdf of the August 2010 A.I. Tables http://www.progressivedairy.com/downloads/2010/1310pd/1310pd_ai_tables.pdf; Created on 01 September 2010
5. Mechanics Corner: Test your knowledge: (Barns & Equipment); Click the link below to download a pdf of this column. http://www.progressivedairy.com/downloads/2010/1310pd/1310pd_mechanics_corner.pdf Jim Schlund Retired Diesel Mechanics Professor College ...; Created on 01 September 2010
6. The results are in, so now what do we do?: (From the Editor); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
7. Industry Watch List: Crisis management: (Industry News); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
8. Focus on the right thing: (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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
9. Profit with a purpose: (Management); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
10. ‘We can be price makers’: (Management); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
11. New Technology: Fluff up solids for added comfort: (Barns & Equipment); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
12. Thinking in partial budgets: (Management); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
13. Consumers sway dairy poll: (Industry News); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
14. New research unlocks the benefits of EFAs: (Feed & Nutrition); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
15. Time to bounce back from heat stress: (Management); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
16. Finding the nutritional balance for a successful reproduction program: (Feed & Nutrition); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
17. Where are interest rates headed?: (Management); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
18. Like Christmas shopping, seasonality is found in every commodity: (Management); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
19. Genomics: A great tool, now with proven results: (A.I. & Breeding); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
20. Are you being progressive enough with your finances to survive a tough market?: (Management); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
21. Prepare your dairy for winter: (Herd Health); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
22. Keys to successful planning for strengthening your business: (Management); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
23. Transition cows: Preparing for fall challenges: (Herd Health); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
24. Whittle Farms use gravity to its advantage for manure handling: (Manure); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
25. Emergency planning: How to manage a manure spill: (Manure); 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. ...; Created on 30 August 2010
26. Composting is ideal manure-handling option for Idaho feedlot: (Manure); 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
27. Just dropping by... The Preamble to the Constitution and the Boy Scouts: (Yevet Tenney); (Click here to listen to the podcast of this column.) 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 ...; Created on 30 August 2010
28. On the Edge of Common Sense: Labor Day 2010: (Baxter Black); “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 ...; Created on 27 August 2010
29. Mastitis beyond milk quality: (Herd Health); 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 ...; Created on 27 August 2010
30. Impact of flooring on claw health and lameness: (Herd Health); 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 ...; Created on 27 August 2010
31. On the Edge of Common Sense: The eyeglass incident: (Baxter Black); 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 ...; Created on 27 August 2010
32. The View from Here: Another assignment begins: (Guest Blog); 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