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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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May 18 2023
Let’s talk about first-calf heifers, or, as I like to call them, first-calf velociraptors
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May 15 2023
While dairy product sales have steadily grown over the past several decades, fluid milk consumption has dropped repeatedly
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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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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
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May 4 2023
Do year-over-year (YOY) milk production gains and discounted spot milk signal a surplus?
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May 2 2023
My first cow was Star. She was a beautiful, mostly black Holstein that was large in stature and a gentle, old soul-type personality
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May 1 2023
In December 2021, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack called for consensus from the dairy industry before a federal milk marketing petition landed on his desk
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April 27 2023
Dairy product manufacturers are running operations full tilt in the midst of the spring milk flush despite ongoing struggles with supply chain constraints, specifically trucking and labor
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April 25 2023
Milk prices can’t go much lower, especially with these high feed prices . . . Can they?”
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April 25 2023
April 25 Hoard's Dairyman Classifieds
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April 25 2023
There are a lot of colors represented on a dairy farm, but I do not know two colors more discussed, bantered about, and tossed around than red and green. There is a strong and clear competition between...
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April 20 2023
Just like for humans, transitions cause stress for animals. For dairy animals, these types of adjustments aren’t just limited to what we call “transition cows” — calves also go...