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Sept. 16 2024
As creating dairy-beef cattle grows as a trend within the dairy industry, farmers are looking to enter the beef market to gain an extra stream of revenue
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Sept. 16 2024
Scientific inquiry is a journey, not a destination. We all learn this at some point in our education, but sometimes we need a reminder
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Sept. 16 2024
For decades, fluid milk sales have been in a tailspin. Initially, that downturn was only noticeable in annual per capita consumption patterns
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Sept. 12 2024
Agriculture ranks among the deadliest professions in the U.S., alongside industries like mining and construction
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Sept. 12 2024
Many farms have a crowd gate that complements their milking system. Before a cow ever reaches the parlor, it probably encounters a crowd gate
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Sept. 12 2024
The trajectory of dairy margins continues to improve in 2024, as average profitability reached $12.33 per hundredweight (cwt.) in July
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Sept. 12 2024
Both nutritionists and dairy producers spend a lot of time reviewing forage analysis reports
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Sept. 10 2024
The trade show at World Dairy Expo can be a great place to pick up pens, notepads, stress cows, and more!
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Sept. 10 2024
Among the 50,000-plus dairy enthusiasts that flock to Madison, Wis., every October are teams of dairy judges from across the country. Held during World Dairy Expo, the National 4-H and Intercollegiate
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Sept. 10 2024
For the past 57 years, World Dairy Expo has been the place to showcase elite dairy cattle — not just in the showring, but in the sale ring, too
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Sept. 10 2024
the International Dairy Short Course held during World Dairy Expo connects farmers and agribusiness professionals from around the world to endless learning opportunities and relationships
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Sept. 10 2024
Many dairy cattle exhibitors take extreme time and care to build the displays at their World Dairy Expo packs
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Sept. 10 2024
recently, I have had breeders express to me a level of concern over the number of bulls whose proofs declined substantially once they had daughters
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Sept. 10 2024
DAIRY HAS ENTERED ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE market moments in over a generation. Feed prices have shifted to a five-year low, and dairy-beef calves are fetching market highs
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Sept. 9 2024
Growing up as a sixth-generation dairy farm kid, I knew that we used a plate cooler to chill our milk before the hauler picked it up
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Sept. 9 2024
Out of all the forage a farmer harvests, a portion of it never makes it to the cow
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Sept. 9 2024
A mixed bag of weather conditions this planting and growing season will likely translate into corn silage of varying quality
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Sept. 9 2024
Beef demand so far in 2024 has been nothing short of amazing, bolstering the strong beef cattle prices that have benefited dairies
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Sept. 9 2024
Where's the Beef? Exploring the use of sexed semen, beef semen, and beef embryos Presented with Paul Fricke, University of Wisconsin-MadisonSponsored by Cryoport SystemsxxxImproved reproductive
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Sept. 5 2024
The quickly retreating long days of summer are the main culprit for pinkeye infections in cattle due to greater fly pressure around the face and pasture access potentially causing physical trauma to the...