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July 20 2018
The American Dairy Coalition (ADC) has rolled out a new initiative to advocate for the proper use of federally standardized terms established for the word “milk” on product label
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July 19 2018
Thirty-nine new employees and summer interns participated in Select Sires’ orientation program held July 10 and July 11. Employees and interns from eight member cooperatives, Select Sires Ge
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July 19 2018
Growing up in the 1980s on my family's dairy farm in central Oregon, I really was unaware of the farm crisis
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July 18 2018
Rotary milking systems can significantly increase a dairy operation’s productivity with the ability to milk up to 800 cows per hour, which reduces milking time and operating costs. While incre
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July 18 2018
A recent editorial in the Wisconsin State Journal hi
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July 18 2018
How many risk management meetings have you been to in the last two years? I must've attended at least three or four and been invited to over a dozen
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July 17 2018
Before I state anything else, let me be clear; this is not a post about small farms versus large farms
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July 17 2018
The information below has been supplied by dairy marketers and other industry organizations. It has not been edited, verified or endorsed by Hoard’s Dairyman.The time is now to tell the FDA: enough...
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July 17 2018
Holstein Association USA recognized several Junior members who breed and own exceptional Holstein cattle during the National Junior Holstein Convention, June 29 – July 3, in Acme, Michigan
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July 16 2018
“It’s a game changer,” shared Ev Thomas of Oak Point Agronomics during the Hoard’s Dairyman webinar, when talking about forage advancements in alfalfa production
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July 15 2018
There’s a lot of interest in sulfur fertilization these days. Environmental efforts to reduce air pollution have been highly successful, and much less sulfur is now deposited on cropland via precipitation
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July 12 2018
If you haven’t heard the expression, “It's hotter than Georgia asphalt," then you should take a trip to Georgia in the summer and walk across the asphalt without any shoes on
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July 12 2018
“There’s a lot that can go wrong during the transition phase,” said Dr. Mark van der List, senior professional services veterinarian with Boehringer Ingelheim. “Their body undergoes...
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July 11 2018
Three national organizations representing dairy farmers and dairy foods companies said that the current and past administrations, as well as the dairy industry, strongly support long-standing
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July 11 2018
The votes are in and Prairie Farms Milk Snack bars are the winners of the sixth annual Refrigerated & Frozen Foods 2018 Best New Retail Products contest
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July 11 2018
The automated milking trend continues to tick upwards in the U.S. GEA introduced the first fully automated robotic rotary parlor, DairyProQ, and installations quickly gained momentum with two
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July 10 2018
Valley Agricultural Software (VAS) and Vault Dairy Technologies haveannounced a partnership to integrate data from the VAS Platform into Vault to enhance functionality andreporting for its users
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July 10 2018
Holstein Association USA recently recognized six finalists as 2018 National Distinguished Junior Members (DJM) at the National Junior Holstein Convention on July 3 in Acme, Michigan. This is t
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July 10 2018
All the latest research in all areas of our operations, yet I bet on every farm there’s an area where we all could say, “that’s how we’ve always done it.”
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July 9 2018
Megan Schrupp of Paynesville, Minnesota named 2018 National Outstanding Young Guernsey Farmer!At the recently concluded National Guernsey Convention, in Dubuque, Iowa, numerous awards were prese