Editors note: You can listen to Richard Stup discuss these issues with Joel Hastings on the DairyVoice podcast at DairyVoice.com. The U.S. is confronting an outbreak of a novel coronavirus that causes serious respiratory disease [Read More …]
As the world grapples with the implications of COVID-19, shelter-in-place warnings and a plummeting stock market, I began to worry about startups forced to navigate a landscape even more resistant to new things. Sequoia Capital [Read More …]
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John Ellsworth There is a great amount of concern about the Coronavirus, considering the potential for loss of life and for its impact on economy, both domestic and international. Yet, if you’ve been reading my [Read More …]
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National Contest Cancelled due to COVID-19 Sixty-six students from eight Western U.S. universities and one Canadian college traveled to Modesto, California, for the 15th annual Western Dairy Challenge on February 20 – 22, [Read More …]
With the April 2020 dairy cattle genetic evaluations, Holstein Association USA will make updates to the Total Performance Index (TPI) Formula. Key points are: 1. Modify the weightings of Predicted Transmitting Ability (PTA) [Read More …]
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