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July 12 2024
Did you milk her for all she’s worth?” With due respect to my mentor and colleague, Don Sanders, who wrote a book by this title, I suggest that we leave a little gas in the tank for our retiring...
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July 11 2024
When you pick up a shovel, I doubt the first thing on your mind is if it is ergonomically fit to dig a hole. It’s designed to do just that — isn’t it?
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July 11 2024
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has worked with federal agencies on cyber issues for more than two decades
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June 27 2024
In USDA’s most recent Milk Production report, May milk output was 19.7 million pounds, down 0.9% from the same month a year before
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June 15 2024
DAIRY producers are aware of the importance of feeding quality colostrum within the first two hours of birth (and surely within six hours). Colostrum provides immunity as antibodies
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June 13 2024
For the second time in less than five years, the viability of the dairy show and fair season is up in the air because of the threat of disease
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June 12 2024
We take a lot of steps to help our employees feel like they belong at our farm, so they want to come to work every day
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June 10 2024
Patience is one of those things that is wonderful if it is being given to me or my situation
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June 10 2024
Lyme disease can be difficult to diagnose and even trickier to treat. In agriculture, workers and animals are outdoors for the majority of the day, making tick bite prevention paramount
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June 1 2024
Hoard's Dairyman Sales, Marketing, and Advertising Team
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May 30 2024
When you’re out on the farm updating identification tags on animals, it can get disorganized when you’re looking through a pile of ear tags that you’re pulling from your pocket
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May 29 2024
As we end Mental Health Awareness Month, here are three considerations to keep in mind when helping yourself or others through this pain
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May 24 2024
As I was walking through one of our freestall barns bringing fetch cows up to get milked, it dawned on me that farmers have some very peculiar, yet somewhat boastworthy talents
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May 20 2024
Farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population, according to the National Rural Health Association
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May 20 2024
With a contracted beef cattle herd, there is demand for beef from dairy-beef crosses and dairy cull cows
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May 14 2024
Lakeshore Technical College in Cleveland, Wis., presented its Hoard’s Dairyman Award to recent graduate Erik Walters
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May 10 2024
There’s nothing wrong with seeking a bit of balance
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May 10 2024
No one likes a sweet deal more than a dairy farmer
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May 9 2024
The transition from heifer to lactating cow is a big change for fresh heifers
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May 9 2024
It has been two weeks since a new state was added to the list of those with dairy cattle testing positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)