A recent visit to the Chino, Calif., milk shed was a sad sight. What once was is no more, and what remains doesn't have much left. A visit to the Chino, Calif., dairy area this week found only fragments...
Hoard's Dairyman Webinar Archives May 14, 2012: "Long-term impacts of calf feeding" presented by Mike Van Amburgh, Cornell University Brought to you by Merck. Watch its U.S. Dairy Farmers Care video. The...
For decades, other states have flirted with California dairies like they're the prettiest girls at the dance. There have been many suitors, too; a dozen from as far away as Wisconsin come to mind. South...
Confirmation reached the Hoard's Dairyman offices that a BSE case had been found in a California dairy cow shortly after 2 p.m. Central time yesterday. Thoughts of "the Christmas surprise" of 2003 (the...
How you can identify and correct abnormal calving positions. That heifer is definitely in labor. Sometimes you can just tell. She is straining and looks uncomfortable. Plus, there has been little progress...
by Mike Hutjens & Earl Aalseth, DVM.?Get cows off on the right start every effort and dollar spent on transition cow well-being pays off in the following lactation. Managing far-off, close-up cows and...
by Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk and Daniel M. Weary The authors are with the Animal Welfare Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. When calves are fed more milk, weight gains before...
Hoard's Dairyman columnist, Gary Sipiorski, reminds us why milking cows is still a worthwhile endeavor. And yes, we're talking economics. With record corn prices (resulting in record bean, alfalfa, other...
There are 115 more reasons for dairy producers to attend World Ag Expo February 14 to 16 in Tulare, Calif. – the number of registered Holsteins, Red and Whites, and Jerseys that will sell at auction...
Judith Capper accepts key position at U.K. equivalent of Dairy Management, Inc. The Washington State University researcher, who brought facts and widespread attention to the declining size of the carbon...
Hoard's Dairyman Webinar Archives January 9, 2012: "Milk's shrinking carbon footprint" presented by Mike Hutjens, University of Illinois Brought to you by Merck Animal Health. Watch the video they
77 percent of state's production is now made into nonperishable products Emerging from the rubble of the dairy industry's economic collapse in 2009, California milk production is not only bouncing back,...
High feed prices continue to dominate coffee shop dairy talk these days, with no item more discussed than alfalfa hay. While longtime Western hay market analyst Seth Hoyt thinks prices will be $30 to $50...
By cutting the beginning or ending of a quote, whole speeches can be turned on their head. With video, it's even easier. David Letterman started a now-popular segment called Stupid Pet Tricks in 1982....
One of the dairy industry's best-known personalities, Doug Maddox, passed away this morning in his office after a massive heart attack. A vibrant person until his last day, Doug had a personality that...
During a trip to Japan this month, visits to food markets were eye-opening. There were both similarities and differences to the United States. First of all, Class 1 fluid milk use in Japan (they call it...
