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Feb. 3 2025
The invisible cow is one that you see three times a year: at calving, breeding, and then again at dry off
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Oct. 22 2024
Both cattle and farm team members appreciate consistency — animals benefit from a regular routine, and employees can streamline their tasks
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Sept. 30 2024
As teams started to trickle into The Tanbark Sunday night, the air was filled with anticipation and excitement as they awaited the results from the day’s judging contests
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July 29 2024
Soil fertility has come a long way over the years
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June 7 2024
Succession planning is a process that intertwines economics with emotion, making it overwhelming and difficult for many to initiate
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Blog
Oct. 24 2023
My niece stopped by for a school project last week. They were talking about “big digit problems” in math and looking at real-life examples where lots of numbers come into play
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Oct. 9 2023
We all know the sad story surrounding fluid milk consumption. Since the 1940s, milk consumption per capita has been trending downward in the United States. The good news is that consumption of dairy products...
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March 15 2023
The thought of creating a business plan for your farm can be daunting, but this document serves several important purposes. For starters, it may be required by a lender when applying for financing. It...
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July 7 2022
With six million genomic tests now recorded at the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding as of February 2022, the dairy community is building a powerful data engine to fuel genetic and breed improvement di
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April 7 2022
The dairy industry has been through very turbulent waters the last several years, but don’t get complacent about what appears to be a good price year ahead of us
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Blog
March 25 2022
“They look like corporate, professional people wearing suits,” my friend exclaimed as I was talking to her about the Alliance’s work monitoring animal rights extremism
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Blog
March 21 2022
Climbing prices on both sides of the food system show us how much our farms depend on others here and abroad
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Sept. 10 2020
The unthinkable events that occurred in the first six months of 2020 will more than likely have an exceptionally long tail. That tail could be 12 to 24 months out or it may even be years long
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Article
Aug. 17 2020
The number of daily visits a cow makes to an automated milking system has a notable impact on overall milk production
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Blog
Dec. 9 2019
Last week I taught class of high school juniors and seniors about marketing, and we were discussing where their target audience would be using social media
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Blog
May 15 2019
When we started thinking about robotic milking, I had to look outside our region of the U.S. for ideas
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April 12 2019
Spring means alfalfa scouting and corn planting. Gear up for another year
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Blog
Jan. 10 2019
I know in many of my blogs I have talked about getting more and more information out to the public. This is key. It is what we lack in the dairy industry
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Blog
Nov. 16 2018
I just got home from Kansas City, Mo., where I attended the Agriculture Future of America (AFA) Leaders Conference
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Blog
Nov. 9 2018
Have you ever wanted to talk directly with other farmers and National Dairy Checkoff staff about dairy promotion but didn't know where to go? Well, now there's an easy way to do it