Dr-John-Goeser
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June 1 2023
As the season rolls on, many baseball teams are recognizing mid-season adjustments are necessary to improve their chances for success. In baseball, success is defined by achieving the postseason and advancing
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Article
June 1 2023
Disease can have a significant impact on both dairy cattle welfare and the financial success of the entire dairy industry
Bauer-web4
Article
May 29 2023
An outbreak of salmonella can be costly to a farm in many ways
Allen-web3
Article
May 29 2023
A farm can be a great place to raise children
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Article
May 25 2023
Even before heat stress affects people, dairy cattle around the globe feel the negative impacts during hot weather seasons much sooner
Donnay-web2
Article
May 25 2023
CME spot cheese prices have been trending down since mid-March with both blocks and barrels trading as low as the $1.40 range by mid-May
Brown-web
Article
May 22 2023
Striving to analyze and understand milk price changes, much less projecting future behavior, is an ever-changing exercise
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Blog
May 19 2023
I took a walk out to our calf hutches last week to begin summer preparations to that area of our farm
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Blog
May 18 2023
Let’s talk about first-calf heifers, or, as I like to call them, first-calf velociraptors
Gilles-web5
Article
May 15 2023
While dairy product sales have steadily grown over the past several decades, fluid milk consumption has dropped repeatedly
Hershey_Marilyn
Article
May 15 2023
I used to have a poster in my office that said, “Everything I learned, I learned from a cow.”
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May 15 2023
May 2023 Hoard's Dairyman Classifieds
Allen-web2
Article
May 11 2023
It doesn’t take much online searching these days to find someone or something proclaiming that our food system is “broken” and drastic changes are needed to fix it
Mulhern-web1
Article
May 11 2023
The march to milk-pricing modernization reached another milestone this month, as the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) submitted to USDA our comprehensive proposal for Federal Milk Marketing Order...
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Blog
May 10 2023
When we started milking in our robotic milking facility, we were fetching cows that hadn’t come up to milk on their own seven to eight times per day
Bauer-web1
Article
May 8 2023
During my time working as a county-based extension educator, one of the questions I was asked most often was the going rate for custom work
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May 4 2023
As agriculture’s labor pool continues to shrink, the dairy industry faces the challenging reality of attracting and retaining employees. Other businesses like construction, landscaping, hotels, and...
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Article
May 4 2023
Agronomically speaking, healthier corn plants equate to improved crop performance and yield. Crop protection practices resulting in healthier corn likely also contribute to more efficiency with nutrient...
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Article
May 4 2023
They say the spots on a Holstein are as unique as a human fingerprint. There might be an even better comparison for cattle, though — the animal’s muzzle
Laine-milkweb1
Article
May 4 2023
Do year-over-year (YOY) milk production gains and discounted spot milk signal a surplus?