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Article
March 19 2018
“Cows don’t need feed, they need nutrients,” shared Ohio State’s Bill Weiss at the recent Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin annual meeting
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Blog
March 16 2018
A few weekends ago, I exhibited at the last local show of my junior show career
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Blog
March 15 2018
I often have talked about stubborn farmers who make less than desirable patients. My late father never sought medical care
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Blog
March 14 2018
By now, we’ve probably all heard the news of the most recent set of farms that received notices saying they would no longer have a milk market
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Article
March 12 2018
A new study found that cows fed all grass produced milk with a more desirable balance of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids
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Article
March 10 2018
Adding these welding strips of metal grating onto our skid loader attachments greatly improved traction and reduced the risk of falls
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Blog
March 7 2018
Most days I can sit down and just crank out an article for you. But this time, I’m not going to lie, I have hit a block so hard I think it left a mark
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Blog
March 6 2018
Across the country America’s dairy farmers are sitting down to kitchen tables and making tough choices
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Article
March 5 2018
In conversations with employers, New Mexico State University’s Robert Hagevoort said he most often hears complaints about employee management
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Blog
March 5 2018
Each spring baseball players and prospects display their skills in the hopes of making a major league roster
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Blog
March 2 2018
Holstein USA’s Holstein America series showcases the passion dairy farmers have for their Holstein cattle
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Blog
Feb. 27 2018
A couple years ago, after we realized that the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) wasn’t going to offer us any meaningful protection, we created our own self-funded insura
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Article
Feb. 25 2018
A stillbirth is defined as death of the calf within 24 to 48 hours after delivery. Unfortunately, these deaths continue to be a major problem on dairy farms
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Article
Feb. 19 2018
“We have always used a ‘waterfall’ approach to grouping on the dairy,” shared Marc Etchebarne, nutritionist at Hillrose Dairy
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Article
Feb. 16 2018
“Animal fats: separating fact from fiction"presented by Nina Teicholz, New York Times best-selling author of The Big Fat Surprise
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Article
Feb. 12 2018
Falling cow numbers and easing milk production in California were one of the dairy industry’s big stories in 2017
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Article
Feb. 12 2018
“The most influential factor in our calf and heifer program that sets up future milk production is a very thorough and strict vaccination protocol,” said Jim Herron
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Article
Feb. 12 2018
A legal battle over the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) use of administrative law judges in adjudicatory or enforcement actions during civil proceedings has called into question how administrative...
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Article
Feb. 10 2018
John Wooden, a highly successful basketball coach for the UCLA Bruins, is quoted to have said: “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
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Videos
Feb. 8 2018
Jordan Siemers was high individual and high reasons individual at the 2014 National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest