Healthy Start® from TransAgra International stimulates feed efficiencies early in calf's life Healthy Start from TransAgra International helps initiate feed efficiencies early in the dairy calf's life...
USDA continues progress on every title of the Farm Bill Disaster Relief, Risk Management Tools, Innovative Conservation Partnerships, Research Foundation All Moving Forward Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack...
Educational games share agriculture's story. "Corn is grown in every state and on six continents." That is just one of the agriculture facts state fair attendees could learn in the American Farm Bureau's...
With an expanded portfolio that includes ELISA and PCR tests, IDEXX now offers BDVD testing solutions to fit every need IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX) announces today the launch of the IDEXX RealPCR™...
It takes preventative strategies and early detection to keep cows walking comfortably on all four feet. Do lame cows get better on their own? According to Gerard Cramer, D.V.M, associate professor from...
While all the research conducted by the world's animal scientists is geared towards building a better agricultural system, it's important for everyone to remember that ultimately our number one goal is...
It's sadly ironic to say that public frustration with California's epic drought is a fluid situation. Mandatory water use cutbacks, brown lawns, "water cops" who fine violators, rapidly drying reservoirs...
Research has showed a strong linear milk response to feeding EPA/DHA omega-3s to improve the omega balance in early lactating diets. One of the most common questions we've received since that data was...
Francis Bilodeau of Victoriaville, Quebec, has been named as an area sales representative for ABS Canada. He will be covering Quebec in the region known as QCD, which covers the central part of the province....
Alta Seeds, the premium brand of Advanta, a leading international supplier of proprietary crop genetics, will demonstrate the first herbicide tolerant sorghum hybrids in their 2014 trials in Hereford,...
A marketing campaign introducing retail-based "Seriously Sustainable Stations" for consumer education, interwoven with social media, contests and merchandise, received the Finalist Award in the USJersey...
--As Prepared for Delivery-- "Thank you M__ Speaker. "H.R. 935, The Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act, will relieve farmers, foresters and other pesticide applicators from a potentially costly regulatory...
Comfortable cows or easily maintained manure systems. It seems like many dairy producers feel they must choose between one or the other. Sand has a strong reputation for enhancing cow comfort and lowering...
Digi-Star announces that the Hoyts of Lighthouse Rascals 4-H Club in Island City, Ore., have won the Be a Digi-Star Champion Contest. Youth livestock exhibitors entered by posting a picture or 60 second...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison dairy science department prides itself on its top-notch faculty. This summer, three faculty members are justifying that high regard, receiving awards for the contributions...
Water quality is paramount to cow health. "My cows are dying. What is going on?" sobbed the 65-year-old dairy producer as his cracked hands cradled his cheeks and covered his swollen eyes. "They calve,...
The Wisconsin FFA Foundation will be participating in the upcoming Wisconsin State Fair in partnership with the Wisconsin State Championship Auctioneer Contest. The event will be held Tuesday, August 5,...
I am now more than two months into my internship with Hoard's Dairyman. It is pretty incredible to realize how fast it has gone and how much I have learned
New Princess to be Crowned August 6 at Iowa State Fairgrounds Thirteen young women involved with the Iowa dairy community will compete to win the title of 61st Iowa State Dairy Princess. The contest will...
Before there was 4-H and FFA, there was the Hoard's Dairyman Juniors. In addition to launching the Young Dairyman page for farm youth in 1915, Hoard created the Juniors, which was the forerunner of the...
