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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’s it going to take to make ‘Cow Week’ a thing?: (From the Editor); During a recent summer trip, I heard the most ridiculous statistic about cows. Unfortunately, it turned out to be true. I heard it while on a boat for an ocean tour. The tour guide mentioned that no ...; Created on 24 August 2018
3. What happened? What’s next? - Dairy’s piece of tariff pie yet to be determined - August 2018: (Industry News); You’re busy – milking cows, managing employees, making hay. In our regular conversations with our team of editorial advisers, we learned they not only wanted a recap of dairy news, but they were seeking ...; Created on 24 August 2018
4. In the dog days of summer, people and cows need extra care: (Management); Like many people who grew up on a dairy farm in decades past, I remember long, hot days of baling hay in small square bales. We hauled the bales to the barn in hay wagons, unloaded them into the hay elevator, ...; Created on 24 August 2018
5. Determine why employees find work miserable: (Management); I use a book by Patrick Lencioni, The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery, as the basis for this article. The book tells a fable about Brian ...; Created on 24 August 2018
6. Why negligent entrustment liability for farm employers matters: (Management); In a May 1 post on the Maryland Risk Management Education Blog, Kelly Nuckolls discussed safety and liability laws covering the movement of farm machinery. The article noted employers are liable for any ...; Created on 24 August 2018
7. A secret to good marketing: How you think: (Management); Many of the decisions you make on the farm – and in life – are influenced by what you already know and adjusted by whatever new information you can obtain. Assume for a moment you need to decide between ...; Created on 24 August 2018
8. How to deal with sibling dynamics: (Management); Brothers and sisters farming together can make for many different, interesting and somewhat challenging dynamics. 1. Oldest son syndrome. Birth order has been very well researched by Dr. Kevin Leman. ...; Created on 24 August 2018
9. 3 Open Minutes with Jessica Peters: (People); Dairywoman Jessica Peters works on her family’s 275-cow Jersey dairy in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She regularly keeps Spruce Row Farm’s 5,000-plus social media followers up to speed with straightforward, ...; Created on 24 August 2018
10. From the front lines: Does your state know exactly how many dairies it has left?: (Management); I live near Bradford County in Pennsylvania. In 2012, Bradford County ranked ninth in the state and 144th in the nation for milk production. In 2014, Bradford was among the 44 counties nationally that ...; Created on 24 August 2018
11. Editorial advisers: Evaluating and using technology: (Management); With low milk prices and tight margins, most dairies might not have much appetite for new investments these days, but that doesn’t mean adoption of new technology has stopped. We asked our editorial ...; Created on 23 August 2018
12. Time clock management: Are you using the best tech available?: (Management); Many dairy parlors are using a biometric system to authenticate employees’ attendance and as a time clock for punching in and out or entering and exiting work stations. The term biometrics is derived from ...; Created on 23 August 2018
13. Automated bookkeeping will impact you and your accountant: (Management); When someone mentions A.I., minds in the dairy business immediately think about artificial insemination. However, this article will focus on a different type of A.I. Regardless of our personal views ...; Created on 23 August 2018
14. Beyond the scale: Growing the modern, healthy heifer: (Calves & Heifers); Weight gain. Two words that strike fear in humans – unless they’re talking about calves. It’s well documented a healthy calf should, at a minimum, double their birthweight before weaning, but the scale ...; Created on 23 August 2018
15. Precision nutrition for calves: Can we move beyond crude protein in calf starter?: (Calves & Heifers); In our previous article, “Precision nutrition for calves: Moving beyond crude protein concentration in milk replacer,” we presented substantial evidence for utilizing synthetic amino acids to better supply ...; Created on 23 August 2018
16. Milk enhancement tools to drive precise calf feeding: (Calves & Heifers); “We need to make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.” This quote, which is often attributed to Albert Einstein, accurately sums up our quest to deliver optimal nutrition to pre-weaned calves. ...; Created on 23 August 2018
17. Create a smoother transportation experience for dairy calves: (Calves & Heifers); Don’t let their small size fool you; transporting dairy calves is tricky. If the process doesn’t go well, you can run into a plethora of problems, including bovine respiratory disease (BRD). BRD pathogens ...; Created on 23 August 2018
18. How I Work: Passion meets purpose for calf housing specialist: (Calves & Heifers); I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.” I feel that way every day in my role as Northeast territory manager with Calf-Tel. Dairy farming and raising ...; Created on 23 August 2018
19. Ventilating a retrofitted stanchion barn for calves: (Calves & Heifers); There’s nothing more picturesque than a dairy farm with a big red barn on a cobblestone foundation. Many of these barns, referred to as stanchion, tiestall or bank barns, were built decades ago and tell ...; Created on 23 August 2018
20. Just dropping by ... Blinders: (Yevet Tenney); Life can yank off the blinders in our lives as we sit on the bottom floor of desperation, or we can turn to the Savior daily to keep moving upward as He gently removes the blinders from our eyes and fills ...; Created on 23 August 2018
21. Equipment Hub: Rural infrastructure: The old culvert: (Barns & Equipment); There has been much press lately about how our nation’s roads and bridges are badly in need of repairs or replacement. Recent bridge collapses are prime examples of how bad things can get when maintenance ...; Created on 23 August 2018
22. The Milk House: You, me and The Hoff: (Ryan Dennis); I started noticing a lot of people looking back in my direction. At first, I assumed they were looking at my girlfriend, which filled me with that natural mix of jealousy and pride. Then she sat down, ...; Created on 23 August 2018
23. HERd Management: Let’s embrace our differences: (Guest Blog); Too often in life, we divide ourselves into two sides on an issue. A quick browse on my Facebook newsfeed, and this definitely seems to be the case. Even in the dairy industry, we polarize ourselves – ...; Created on 23 August 2018
24. The Manure Spreader: Chicken fingers: (Tim Moffett); A dairy farmer cries fowl. This is an open letter to all my chicken farmer friends. That would be you, Kevin. I’m not saying there aren’t a lot of chicken farmers; I’m just saying I don’t have a lot of ...; Created on 23 August 2018
25. Digitizing the dairy farm: What artificial intelligence can really do: (Management); Why should a 21st-century dairy farmer have to approach his business as if he’s still in the 20th century? Agriculture remains the least-digitized industry, says the McKinsey Global Institute. The ...; Created on 23 August 2018
26. Arizona dairy raises better calves by decreasing stress and increasing nutrition: (Calves & Heifers); When it’s 105ºF outside, it’s 105ºF in the hutch – that’s the reality of raising calves in Arizona according to Tim Dugan, co-owner of T&K Red River Dairy in Stanfield, Arizona. To mitigate this stress, ...; Created on 21 August 2018
27. Breeders gather for annual meetings and conventions: (Event Coverage); National Brown Swiss Convention June 27-30, Coralville, Iowa Highlights: The 2018 Brown Swiss National Youth Heifer Show included 126 head exhibited. Junior champion was won by Pit-Crew Formula ...; Created on 20 August 2018
28. Buy it or lease it? A not-so-simple equation: (Management); Whether it’s a piece of property or a tractor, once you’ve decided to make an investment in your business, the question then turns to the source of capital to finance that investment. Do you invest your ...; Created on 15 August 2018
29. How to design for manure in robotic barns: (Manure); When it comes to robotic milking systems, the more complex your barn design, the more complex the accompanying manure system can be. You have to consider how your manure system fits with cow flow, robot ...; Created on 15 June 2018
30. Whey protein: The forgotten secret weapon of the fitness industry: (Guest Blog); We all love to answer the question, “What are your favorite dairy products?” Your eyes glaze over and your mind instantly shifts to heaping bowls of ice cream, the cheese board at your cousin’s wedding ...; Created on 15 May 2018
31. Create a winter manure-spreading plan to prevent phosphorus loss: (Manure); In Wisconsin and Minnesota, the Discovery Farms Program has been turning privately owned farms into research stations for the past 15 years. The water quality data collected from participating farms is ...; Created on 30 November 2017
32. Dairy Strong Bloggers: 5 podcasts that will make you richer, smarter and cooler: (Guest Blog); I love the radio. More specifically, I love talk radio. I distinctly remember my parents forcing me to listen to talk radio as a kid during long car trips, which, at the time, I found to be very uncool. ...; Created on 27 July 2017