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Are any of your friends, family or acquaintances involved in farming or ranching? We probably write a magazine for them.
I recently read an interesting post from Sam Horn at the Lifehack website – ...
Like most dairy managers today, Jamie Kulesa, operations manager for Horizon Organic Dairy in Paul, Idaho, keeps a close eye on his forage. “We’re shooting to be between 50 and 60 percent moisture on our ...
Attendees of the 2013 Agricultural Media Summit held in Buffalo, New York, had the opportunity to tour several agricultural companies in the western New York region on August 3.
The first stop of the ...
U.S. dairy farmers produced about 200 billion pounds of milk in 2012.
The Dairy Products Annual Summary, compiled by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), reports the milk was manufactured ...
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series discussing how Montana’s supply management system operates and the effect it has had on the state’s dairy industry.
From overlooking Glacier National ...
With more free time can come plenty of temptation to spend, spend, spend.
With a little planning and creativity, you can find many affordable, day-to-day opportunities for teaching children valuable ...
It doesn’t matter where the market has been – only where it is going. We encourage producers to look forward and not base decisions on what has happened in the past.
At the same time, looking back ...
For many sports fans across the country, September marks their favorite time of the year … the start of another football season.
As a die-hard Packers fan, I’m like a kid on Christmas morning when the ...
The undercover animal rights activist who gained access to an Idaho dairy farm last year and captured video of animal abuse recently went public with his hidden-camera career.
The individual, who ...
In late July, the National Geographic channel aired a documentary about hidden-camera animal abuse titled “Inside Secret America: Animal Undercover.”
Kay Johnson Smith, CEO for the Animal Ag Alliance, ...
“It had already been a long shift dealing with several other problems when I happened to notice that a semen straw was missing from the tank.
I keep accurate records and notes when it comes to A.I., ...
In April, with less than six months to the big event, World Dairy Expo began welcoming new staff members to its team.
Progressive Dairyman introduced the new general manager, Scott Bentley, in the ...
World Dairy Expo (WDE) is known for its tremendous quality of cattle, extensive trade show and worthwhile educational opportunities.
It offers eight free educational seminars that highlight the latest ...
At World Dairy Expo the latest research will be presented by the best in the dairy business.
Eight free seminars will cover a variety of management topics including efficiency, feed and milk prices, ...
One of the best ways to ensure a successful colostrum-management program is by testing colostrum on-farm and verifying passive transfer of immunity. It can be easy, affordable, and the health and productivity ...
Colostrum is good for calves. It is the only way we transfer the cow’s immunity to the calf at birth.
Having good-quality colostrum is why many dairies have gone to monitoring the quality of their colostrum ...
Virtually every dairyman will tell you that the success of his operation is dependent on producing healthy, productive replacements.
The nutrition and health management of newborn calves is a constant ...
I recently received an email from a veterinarian in an Asian country who just started working with a large commercial dairy.
On this farm, at the time of the email, there were to be more than 500 calves ...
The Grober Young Animal Development Center (GYADC) has been working on various management and nutrition trials evaluating group housing since 2009.
In 2011, our research evaluated unlimited daily milk ...
Most nearly everyone I discuss calf raising with will tell me that it’s one of the most challenging jobs on the dairy.
When things aren’t going well – namely, calves are sick and mortality rates are ...
This article was #11 of the Top 25 most well-read articles on www.progressivedairy.com in 2013. It was published in the Sept. 1, 2013 print issue. Click here for the full list of the Top 25.
In December ...
When you’ve farmed in Georgia your whole life, you learn a thing or two about managing the heat.
Just ask Allen Oglesby of Laranda Farms, Inc. in Lyons, Georgia, who has been raising calves since 1978. ...
“That’s a lot of expensive feed.” This is a common initial reaction to feeding calves a higher plane of nutrition.
This approach to raising calves incorporates more nutrient-dense milk rations fed at ...
Quality calves are the future investment of every dairy operation, but raising them until they are ready to put milk in the tank is no easy task.
One of the founding principles of the Dairy Calf and ...
The popular reproduction management strategies discussed during the 2013 American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) Joint Annual Meeting in July revolved around new variations on synchronization protocols ...
Editor’s note: This is the third and final article in a series following a Wisconsin dairy farm through the Repro Money program, administered by University of Wisconsin Extension. As a reminder, names ...
Tough economic times in the dairy industry call for refined breeding and feeding management techniques.
With the ever-increasing cost of feed, dairy producers are looking for ways to minimize feed costs, ...
Reproductive performance of a dairy herd is a function of certain management policies and how well these are implemented in daily herd management.
It has long been known that there is an important economic ...
In the beef and dairy industries, technologies such as drawing blood for pregnancy detection are gaining in popularity.
With this increase in use, many adopters of this technology are looking to maximize ...
Last month I wrote, “You can always tell when the Lord is trying to teach you a principle because on-task real-life on-the-job experiences come in multiples.”
Not only does He give you opportunities on ...
Before we know it, spring will be here again, begging us to get back into our crop fields. Having our equipment ready and able to handle the task requires some advanced planning and scheduling of check-ups, ...
Animart adds Feed-O-Meter to its heat-detection system
Animart Inc., a privately held provider of animal health and veterinary products, has added Feed-O-Meter to its Track a))) Cow electronic heat-detection ...
Dear Editor,
I was very disappointed in the article by the Dartmouth professor, Kirk Kardashian, on “Freedom vs. Security for the Dairy Farm.” I was hoping for a balanced and unbiased article … which ...
“How’s the stripping going?”
It was a simple question really, one I answered honestly. It was going OK. It wasn’t taking as much extra time as I thought it might, but I also hadn’t seen quite the results ...
I recently signed up for LinkedIn, which automatically sends a connection request to all the LinkedIn members in your email account. As a result, I got responses from a handful of people I hadn’t talked ...
It’s always perplexing to me to hear visitors to Arizona in July remark, “Man, it’s really hot here!” Well, duh. Natives of the hot country from Dothan, Alabama, to Brawley, California, don’t complain ...
The world’s largest American-style cheese manufacturer opened a new research-and-development facility in downtown Twin Falls, Idaho, recently.
Glanbia Foods held a ribbon-cutting ceremony of its ...
Historically, heifer programs have been a source of widely varied growth patterns. Dairy producers that could produce more heifers than needed generated additional revenue by selling extra heifers for ...
The West was peppered with bad guys whose conduct was misunderstood.
Yet today we treat them as heroes, like they were a Robin Hood. We tend to portray them as victims, who, through no fault of their ...
Editor’s note: The following report was submitted prior to recent violence and political upheaval in Egypt after the removal of Pres. Mohamed Morsi from office. I am one of many scientists, educators and ...
All future dairy veterinarians are born and raised on an American dairy farm, right?
Not so. Charles and Daryl Nydam, father and son and coordinator and director, respectively, of the Summer Dairy Institute ...
This article was #4 of the Top 25 most well-read articles on www.progressivedairy.com in 2013. It was published in the Aug. 1, 2013 Extra e-newsletter and the Sept. 1, 2013 print issue.
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