Animal welfare. Animal rights. The ethics of producing milk. What do these terms mean? Dr. Jim Reynolds Have definitions changed over the decades? What do consumers know? What should they know? What’s “happy, happy, [Read More …]
Steve Strickler, Dairy Producer at Iola, Kansas My father was Ivan Strickler, one of the men who led the charge to create a national dairy promotion checkoff in the early 1980s. Instead of a loosely-connected [Read More …]
Last time, I talked about knowing your costs of milk production on a per cwt basis. While some may be thinking that knowing this number is great fodder for your local coffee shop conversations, there [Read More …]
Eric Lyons, Lyons Jerseys Toledo, Iowa Recently, my Dad and I attended the Prairie Farms Co-op district meeting. Despite having recently shut down our milking operation last October, we had a quality award coming and [Read More …]
Today the process of ensuring the new employee has a great start, becomes engaged, and stays is called onboarding. Onboarding is more than just orientation and training that have been our traditional focus for new [Read More …]
CDCB launched a new genetic evaluation – Early First Calving – with the April evaluations. You might ask Why, when there are already genetic evaluations for 45 traits. The answer is quite simple: maximum genetic [Read More …]
Basketball season is wrapping up, and the NBA playoffs will start soon. If you are a basketball fan, you may have been excited by the uncertainty of this year’s tournament—with new teams in the mix [Read More …]
Announcement from the California Air Resources Board The California Air Resources Board (CARB), with the support of the California agricultural community, has extended the deadline for participation in the 2019 agricultural equipment survey. The survey, [Read More …]
Announcement from the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service The USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) has announced the results of the 2017 Census of Agriculture with new information about U.S farms and ranches and those who operate [Read More …]
EnduraGestTM lessens manure odor and increases nutrient value The old adage, “smells like money,” in reference to the odorous outcome associated with livestock operations, has long been a theme in the countryside. However beneficial as field-applied [Read More …]
Futures? Exports? Tariffs? Cycles? Lower fluid milk demand? Since the beginning of the industrial era, it has been commonly accepted that the price of milk will be cyclical. The theory had always been that dairies [Read More …]
Fiske Electric, Johnstown, Colo., works closely with their clients to design and build dairies ranging in size from 700 to 8,000 cows. While layout and designs change, one common theme is present — optimize the [Read More …]
DeLaval publishes its 2018 Sustainability Report, following the company’s annual progress in the areas of animal welfare, environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and social sustainability. “This Report summarizes how we all at DeLaval have a role [Read More …]
Animal welfare. Animal rights. The ethics of producing milk. What do these terms mean? Have definitions changed over the decades? What do consumers know? What should they know? What’s “happy, happy, happy, dead”? Dr. [Read More …]
Improving efficiencies on the farm and paying attention to small details was a common theme during the Professional Dairy Producers – PDPW Business Conference in Madison, Wis., on March 13-14. World-renowned agricultural economist and former Virginia Tech [Read More …]
John Ellsworth Success Strategies Recently, I was reading a book entitled Your 5 Day Weekend and discovered the following quote, which was part of an analysis that the authors Nik Halik and Garrett B. Gunderson. [Read More …]
When Dairy Farmers of America — the largest supplier of raw milk in the world — kicked off its Annual Meeting in Kansas City this week, one message was clear: A commitment to preserving the [Read More …]
Dairy Farmers of America’s (DFA) Members of Distinction program honors members who embody the Cooperative’s core values and excel on their operations, in their communities and in the industry. Each year, one member farm from [Read More …]
African Swine Fever (ASF) is defined as a highly contagious hemorrhagic viral disease of domestic and wild pigs and it’s getting a larger share of our attention recently. Over the past few months, the focus [Read More …]
The second Preliminary Progress of the Farm DFBS Report has been released. As dairy businesses across New York State continue to analyze their financial and business performance utilizing the Dairy Farm Business Summary and Analysis Program, updated [Read More …]
Two organizations, Compeer Financial and the Wisconsin Farmers’ Union, have just announced their sponsorship of a three-day course held April 23-25 in Madison, Wis. The Making More from Milk course offers dairy producers an opportunity [Read More …]
Seasonal changes in milk components are inevitable. While environment and heat stress play a role, lower milk fat during the spring and summer months is part of the cow’s internal biological rhythm, meaning the cow [Read More …]
Reading and interpreting a nutrient management plan (NMP) can be intimidating. The plan has a lot of charts, numbers, and symbols. Restriction maps include a lot of squiggly lines, different colored hash marks, and a [Read More …]
Employee training and safe animal handling was the focus of a session held Mar. 20 – 21 at the UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching & Research Center in Tulare, Calif. Sixty people attended the sessions [Read More …]
The annual banquet of the Fresno State Dairy Club attracted some 200 students, family and friends on Mar. 16 on campus at the animal science pavilion. Club president Makayla Toste welcomed the group. Ag College [Read More …]
Now is the time to consider an internship at CDFA, and with it an opportunity to be part of an agency that supports one of the greatest food production systems in the world. [Read More …]
Galileo Wheel, cutting-edge developers of next generation farming and construction equipment, are due to launch their new Galileo AgriCup tire this spring – comprised of the very latest in tire technology, the AgriCup combines the [Read More …]
Building on the success of its BeefCake™ supplement feeder, DewEze is pleased to announce the newest addition to the line – the BeefCake Cotton Edition. “The original BeefCake changed the way ranchers offered supplement nutrition [Read More …]
March is National Nutrition Month, a time we’re reminded how the idea of “nutrition and health” is evolving among today’s consumers. According to the 2018 International Food Information Council (IFIC) Food and Health Survey, consumers’ [Read More …]
Daily in the dairy sector we see evidence of the well-known saying that consumers vote with their wallets. During the last few years, our industry has experienced significant market growth for premium products including specialty [Read More …]
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