Increase Chocolate Milk Sales with MilkPEP Halloween Promotion PEANUTS® Characters Can Now Be Used in Packaging & Marketing Materials For the seventh consecutive year, The Milk Processor Education...
Leading professionals from across North America gathered for the first Ag HR Symposium in Canada at the University of Guelph July 24 and 25. Organized by Dr. Sara Mann, Associate Professor and Faculty...
The Missouri Dairy Association (MDA) opposes any attempts by the House of Representatives to extend a version of the current Farm Bill by one year. In a statement delivered today to Missouri's congressional...
Broadhead, a Minneapolis-based advertising and marketing agency, announces the promotion of three of its employees. Ryan Krumwiede has been named an account supervisor...
Handy Hint: August 10, 2012 Counter replaces silage scale We found this manual counter very useful to keep track of loads of silage when a scale is not always en route from field to pile. We weigh a couple...
Cornelis F.M. (Kees) deLange, Ph.D., professor of swine nutrition at the University of Guelph, Canada, was recognized for his professional achievements by the American Society of Animal Science last week....
As printed in our July 2012 issue... A BLISTERING HEAT WAVE and dry conditions pushed corn prices up 28 percent in the last two weeks of June. Indiana, Illinois, eastern Iowa and Missouri have had less...
N. Andy Cole, Ph.D., an expert on ruminant animal nutrition and production, was recognized for his professional achievements by the American Society of Animal Science this week. Cole is the research leader...
Jeffrey L. Firkins, Ph.D., an expert on ruminant animal nutrition and production, was recognized for his professional achievements by the American Dairy Science Association. Dr. Firkins is a professor...
Put a plan of action in place to make the most of this year's forages. With extreme drought conditions affecting more than half of the U.S., and in excess of 30 percent of the corn crop rated at poor or...
Eating Satisfaction, Product Integrity and Telling the Industry's Story Seen as Key to Future While the beef industry continues to make progress in the area of beef quality, there is still room for improvement....
Pay extra attention to calf housing during warm weather conditions. The loss of a dairy cow, let alone a dairy calf is not something any dairy producer takes lightly
The list of decisions and management tasks commercial dairy herd managers face on any given day never seems to get shorter. Increasing average herd sizes in the U.S. will continue to challenge the time...
Possible Market for New Functional Food Reported in the Journal of Dairy Science® American ginseng is reported to have neurocognitive effects, and research has shown benefits in aging, central nervous...
A winning piece of art will be chosen as the Official National Ag Day Poster The Agriculture Council of America (ACA) and Successful Farming are encouraging young artists to celebrate modern agriculture...
The ongoing severe drought continues to be devastating to Missouri's dairy herd. "I think we could lose up to a third of our dairy cow numbers," says MDA President Larry Purdom and a dairy farmer from...
During the Holstein Association USA, Inc.'s 127th Annual Meeting, considerable time was spent discussing the proposed Cooperative Agreement between USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-Animal Improvement...
From Jerry Kozak, President and CEO of NMPF: "We are heartened by the vote in the House of Representatives yesterday to pass the Preserving America's Family Farms Act. This legislation, sponsored by Rep....
Mycogen Seeds is adding nine new SILAGE-SPECIFIC™ BMR and TMF corn silage hybrids to its 2013 lineup, including seven with SmartStax® trait technology. "Mycogen Seeds is excited to offer a selection...
You do all you can to improve the wellness of your herd and the profitability of your dairy operation. But are you doing right by your dry cows? Milk quality and greater returns begin on the last day of...
