A dairy producer may occasionally ask, “Why is my community against me?” Of course, angry residents will always attack a dairyman about his level of environmental stewardship or animal care. However, on ...
Producers all over the country are proud to dairy. Another producer has found a new way to share that pride at her local fair. With a little help from Proud to Dairy, Susan Hauck, proud dairywoman and ...
It would be nice to have a crystal ball to predict what 2010 will bring for the dairy industry. After getting through the past several months of high feed costs coupled with low milk prices, there are ...
Everyone knows that the highest- paid position in pro football is the quarterback. But who gets the second highest pay on an NFL team? Forget about the flashy names of runners and receivers or even kickers ...
The past 10 months have been some of the most challenging times the dairy industry has faced in over a generation. With low milk prices combined with high feed costs, many dairy farms have suffered significant ...
Good relationships among family members are important for successful two-generation farming arrangements. Poor communication starves a relationship while good communication nourishes it. So improving communication ...
Fostering teamwork on your dairy is critically important to maximize milking parlor performance. More than half the workers on most dairies are milkers. Milkers work in shifts or teams. This is the one ...
A tour offered by the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) highlighted an array of heifer facilities in Northeastern Wisconsin on October 20. The busload of dairy producers traveled to four ...
The natural centuries-old art of dairy cow milking has undergone significant and irreversible change in the last 40 years. In the effort to maximize dairy production, owners have fine-tuned the science ...
Dairyman Skip Hardie from the Finger Lakes region of New York has held an interest in methane digesters for quite sometime. He owns and operates Hardie Farms, along with his two partners, Steve Palladino ...
Stray voltage can be an unseen enemy to the dairy farmer. The fact that it is unseen is partly what can make it so devastating.
Cows can feel lower currents of stray voltage than humans can. The shock ...
Dairy Challenge is a unique event that gives students the opportunity to be a consultant for the day. And in the regional dairy challenge competitions, teams are made up of students from a variety of schools ...
High costs and low milk prices have dairy producers examining the efficiency of their operations. By increasing the emphasis on an individual cow’s production rather than the herd as a whole, producers ...
In recent years, cow comfort has become a topic of great interest in the dairy industry with many articles appearing in the popular and scientific press. This is no surprise since comfortable and contented ...
Amino acids are the building blocks of protein, a fundamental nutrient required for optimal cow performance and health. While they are the simplest elements of protein, balancing diets for these amino ...
This article was #20 in PDmag's Top 25 most-well read articles in 2010.
Summary: The Dairy Research Center at Oregon State University served as the first U.S. farm to test out a new telemetric monitoring ...
On average, a person uses 18 gallons of water to take a shower. The average shower length is about 9 minutes with an average temperature of 107.5°F. That’s a lot of hot water for taking a shower. Now throw ...
Six dairy industry experts answer questions about the causes and ramifications of dairy lameness. What causes laminitis?
Dr. Guard: The traditional view of the cause of laminitis was that it is purely ...
In the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, Dr. Ondrej Becvar, a clinical instructor in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, is working to provide proper ...
Just like it is for us humans, everything requires more effort when the body isn’t functioning at 100 percent. Therefore, it is only logical that we make some extra effort to provide additional creature ...
This article was #2 in PDmag's Top 25 most-well read articles in 2010.
Summary: Idaho hoof trimmer Hugh Love owns his own business, Rocky Mountain Hoof Care. He says he couldn’t do without an Appleton ...
This article was #4 in PDmag's Top 25 most-well read articles in 2010.
Summary: About 12 people meet at Mountain View Dairy in Delta, Utah, twice a year. Their goal? To trim the hooves of the farm’s ...
When I was an undergraduate student at Northern Arizona University, my friends and I went to a restaurant and ordered food. After we finished, we realized that we didn’t have money to leave a tip. We were ...
Chris Lehner
Director of Commodities at Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Assoc. in Baraboo, Wisconsin Territory: United States
Background/Experience/Education
I went to Michigan State to learn about ...
Food, clothing and shelter, the basic essentials of life. From the earliest caveman to modern soccer mom, from the Palestinian refugee to the Katrina victim, from the Dali Lama to Dolly Parton, first on ...
Idaho dairymen and producers from throughout the Northwest convened in Boise during November looking for positive news about their industry. Many found what they were looking for.Dairy families from more ...
Accounting! Just the mention of the word can elicit reactions ranging from boredom to fear in people. Accounting is probably one of the most misunderstood concepts of our society, yet it affects the lives ...
TRENDING TOPIC ARTICLE: A.I. & BREEDING
Originally published: Nov. 19, 2009
Since we began tracking trending topic articles, we’ve been surprised with the number of “older” articles that remain well-read. ...
All dairies may lose money in periods of extremely low milk prices. From my observations even the best-run dairies are experiencing losses.
During rough economic times, producers may feel compelled ...
The average American dairy cow produces more than 20,000 pounds of milk every year. Most of these cattle are Holsteins, a breed whose naturally high milk yield has been enhanced by decades of selective ...
I was wounded. I got cracked across the bridge of my nose. Not that my nose needs to do anything to attract attention. As one friend put it, “Bax, if you’d lie flat on your back in the sun, we could tell ...
Cold weather is coming. Are you prepared to provide exceptional comfort to your calves and replacement heifers this winter? Healthy calves and heifers grow more quickly and are able to join the milking ...
The work of reconstruction and development in failing states, like Iraq and Afghanistan, is difficult. The U.S. Government (USG) implements a policy of counterinsurgency; the U.S. military assumes the ...
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