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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. Embrace joy this Christmas season: (From the Editor); I wrote earlier this year about selecting “joy” as my one word for the year, based on the concept from the book My One Word. I’ll follow the example Editor Peggy Coffeen set in 2017 and provide an update ...; Created on 21 November 2018
3. Do you know: Dairy has a seat at the Holiday table: (Industry News); Created on 21 November 2018
4. Ask a Vet: Tubing a calf: (Calves & Heifers); No matter the situation, follow these steps to properly tube a calf. 1. Fill the calf feeder bag or bottle with fluid, such as colostrum, electrolytes or milk. (Note: Milk should only be tubed for ...; Created on 21 November 2018
5. Checkoff Watch: A difficult year, but checkoff offers reasons for optimism: (Organizations); It goes without saying how much your national and local checkoff staffs care about dairy farmers. We understand how difficult this year has been for you, and there is nothing harder than watching families ...; Created on 20 November 2018
6. What happened? What’s next? - Second round of ‘tariff’ payments likely in December: (Industry News); You’re busy – milking cows, managing employees and preparing year-end financials. With that in mind, Progressive Dairyman looks at issues in the news impacting you and your dairy business. In recognition ...; Created on 20 November 2018
7. In Focus: Fluid slide stalls overall dairy consumption: (Industry News); After a three-year run when annual U.S. per-capita dairy product consumption rose from the year before, 2017 yielded a small decline in overall consumption. The decrease was mostly attributed to a continuing ...; Created on 20 November 2018
8. Effective conflict resolution requires changes in behavior: (Management); Conflict is a daily reality. Some conflicts are relatively minor and easy to handle. However, conflicts of greater magnitude require a strategy for successful resolution to prevent them from creating constant ...; Created on 20 November 2018
9. The man behind the matings: Darin Meyer, De-Su Holsteins: (Management); Since the beginning of the genomic era, the De-Su prefix has dominated high-ranking Holstein lists, leaving a lasting impact on the breed with bulls like Observer, Bookem and Balisto, just to name a few. ...; Created on 20 November 2018
10. Son-Bow Farms cuts cost of production with ‘new way’ of manure handling: (Management); At Son-Bow Farms near Spring Valley, Wisconsin, the sand-laden manure from 1,400 cows no longer goes straight to the lagoon. It now passes through a sand separation and reclamation building before ...; Created on 20 November 2018
11. Leading the Way: 5 life skills learned in the show ring: (Organizations); Video games, participation ribbons and obscene amounts of time spent on social media don’t develop work ethic, instill values or build self-esteem. But showing cattle can do all that and more to prepare ...; Created on 20 November 2018
12. Christmas cards, cows and the U.S. Coast Guard: (People); Across the nation, people know the name Tillamook. From cheese to ice cream, both the brand and the location have created a rich dairy legacy. One group from the diverse county, which includes farmland ...; Created on 20 November 2018
13. Cozy Nook turns holiday sales into community traditions: (People); For eight months of the year, Cozy Nook Farm is a peaceful neighborhood farm. The Oberhaus family milks 75 Brown Swiss and Jersey cows, farms 225 acres and generally enjoys life in the small town of Waukesha, ...; Created on 20 November 2018
14. Just dropping by ... Thanksgiving in our over-stuffed recliners: (Yevet Tenney); It is easy to sit in our over-stuffed recliners and watch the news splattered with the carrion of gossip and conclude America is going to heck in a handbasket and there is no hope for the future. We ...; Created on 20 November 2018
15. Equipment Hub: Pressure washing 101: (Barns & Equipment); Post-season harvest is a great time to get things cleaned up, serviced and put away. While it is satisfying to see a clean and shiny piece of equipment, I must say, as I get older and acquire more machinery ...; Created on 19 November 2018
16. HERd Management: How I’m defeating self-doubt and focusing on self-care: (Guest Blog); Maybe it’s a workout class, going on a walk or chasing the cows that got out last night. The better shape you’re in, the better you feel and the better you perform. Two hundred days ago, I heard about ...; Created on 19 November 2018
17. The Milk House: When histories collide: (Ryan Dennis); Farming is seldom at the heart of social and political controversy. That is not the case in South Africa, however. President Cyril Ramaphosa has recently begun to make good on his promise to expropriate ...; Created on 19 November 2018
18. Life on the family farm under an open heaven: Give it enough snort: (Guest Blog); It was one of those falls up here that was wetter than normal. We had gotten our corn silage chopped off, and now we were going at our high-moisture corn. I always hired my neighbor, Howie, to come with ...; Created on 19 November 2018
19. The Manure Spreader: Laughing matter: (Tim Moffett); If there’s one thing I hate more than anything, it’s when people find out I am a comedian and say to me, “Tell me a joke.” No! When I meet an accountant, I don’t ask him to follow me home and file my taxes. ...; Created on 19 November 2018
20. Using adjusted EBITDA to make decisions on your dairy: (Management); One of the many challenges of understanding dairy financial statements, and dairy operations as a whole, is understanding how to handle the biological and seasonal fluctuations so prevalent in the industry. ...; Created on 19 November 2018
21. How to write a will with joy: (Management); Today, I encountered three acquaintances who are all dealing with different kinds of loss. One is a husband whose wife is suffering from a stroke. One is a woman whose nephew is suffering from a mental ...; Created on 19 November 2018
22. Dairy farms adopt digital tools, but barriers exist to expand tech use: (Management); Almost 1,100 farmers in Wisconsin responded to a recent digital technology adoption survey we conducted at the University of Wisconsin. Dairy, livestock and crop producers were targeted in our research ...; Created on 19 November 2018
23. Dutch Dairy uses technology to take control of cow comfort and health: (People); Animal health is not left to chance at Dutch Dairy in Thorp, Wisconsin. With the help of technology, accurate and actionable information aids Sander and Amy Penterman in efficient management. “Cow ...; Created on 19 November 2018
24. Reynolds Christmas display lights up Indianapolis suburb: (People); Nestled in the northeast corner of Indianapolis is a Christmas light display like no other. The Reynolds family has decorated the property of their Reynolds Farm Equipment John Deere dealership in ...; Created on 13 November 2018
25. Risks and rewards: The roadmap to robotic milking: (Management); By now, the potential benefits of robotic milking systems are clear. Less obvious are the financial impacts. That leads to an important question: Should you dive headfirst into a fully automated facility, ...; Created on 26 October 2018
26. Renewed interest brings big changes to Ideal Dairy LLC: (People); The two most recent generations to operate Ideal Dairy LLC in Hudson Falls, New York, have something in common. They have each entered the business during a turning point in the farm and propelled it forward ...; Created on 09 October 2018
27. 3 tips to prepare 2-year-olds for milking: (Guest Blog); Ten years ago, I made the three-hour trek to State College, Pennsylvania, to begin my college career. I was pretty sure I was armed with everything I’d need: photos of my family and friends, appropriately ...; Created on 25 September 2018
28. My dairy experience in Poland: We’re all in this together: (Guest Blog); Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article was first published in the Delmarva Farmer. Breaking out of our “silos” or “dairy bubbles” is a topic I’ve written about before. It’s crucial to explore ...; Created on 13 September 2018
29. Wisconsin family celebrates kindness of dairy community after unthinkable tragedy: (People); “When you’re a farm family, you become family with every other farm family.” These emotional words were spoken by Melissa Briel, just two short months after the tragic passing of her husband, Dan, and ...; Created on 20 June 2018
30. Creative ideas to supplement your dairy income: (Guest Blog); In this modern era of dairy farming, it takes more creativity than ever to stay in business. It seems as dairy farmers face an onslaught of forces determined to weed out any but the most efficient, they ...; Created on 01 June 2018
31. How a 100-pound Holstein herd averages 7 pounds combined fat and protein: (People); The term “successful” can be pretty subjective in its application, but many would argue that the term should be applied to TKunkel Dairy Farms LLC of Cuba City, Wisconsin. One wouldn’t have to look ...; Created on 25 April 2018
32. Vir-Clar Farm grants dairy tour wish to 11-year-old with bone cancer: (People); When 11-year-old animal lover Alaina Janssen arrived at Vir-Clar Farm in Fon du Lac, Wisconsin, with her family last December, she informed her mother she wouldn’t be needing the wheelchair she often used ...; Created on 16 April 2018
33. North Carolina’s Reverence Farms utilizes grazing, line-breeding and nursing herd: (People); “Land-healing agriculture” is not necessarily a common term, but that is one of the first statements Hubert (Hue) Karreman, VMD, and Suzanne Nelson Karreman use to describe their dairy operation in North ...; Created on 26 March 2018
34. ‘Dairy’ good Christmas traditions to start this year: (Guest Blog); This past September, I became a mom … to twins! The husband and I are officially the parents to one little farm boy and one little farm girl. While I have forgotten what “sleep” is, we have never been ...; Created on 17 November 2017
35. Neidermire carries on brother’s farming legacy: (People); On April 24, 2012, a tractor rollover during spring plowing took the life of James Neidermire, forever changing the course of Neiderland Dairy in East Farmington, Wisconsin. His younger brother, Joel, ...; Created on 29 August 2017