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World-Milk-Day-Toast-Hoards
June 1 2017
Today is World Milk Day. Launched in 2001 by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, its intent is to recognize milk as a global food
Hoards-Dairyman-June-1997
May 26 2017
Searching for a reflective topic, I decided to browse the Hoard’s Dairyman archives from late May and June from 20 years ago
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May 25 2017
It’s the most important meal a calf will ever receive, but is it as nutritious as it should be? With no immunity to fight off illness, colostrum is essential within the first few hours of life
calf
May 24 2017
A unique aspect of the education system at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo is the “Learn by Doing” approach to educational skills in class
ABY_7659
May 17 2017
More than 14,800 cow judges from all 50 states and 15 other countries tackled the five classes in the 2017 Hoard’s Dairyman Cow Judging Contest
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May 11 2017
Each day, many of us scroll through pictures and posts on various social media platforms. For some of us, it is also how we get our news
yogurt
May 10 2017
Fourteen grams of protein and satisfies my sweet tooth? Count me in! Yogurt is one of my favorite foods and preferred dairy product because of its great taste and high nutritional value
breakfast-milk
April 27 2017
“Milk is only for breakfast,” answered one of my classmates as we lectured in a recent class about fluid milk consumption in the United States. Unfortunately, several other students agreed...
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April 26 2017
Sometimes the reactions I get when I tell people how often I go home on the weekends while attending college full time are surprising
Tom Wall
April 24 2017
As editors, we cover a wide breadth of unique events. Not only covering, but being part of the “Rural Life Days” with the Most Reverend David Ricken, bishop of the Green Bay Catholic Diocese
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April 14 2017
Cows feel heat stress before people do, and higher producing cows generate a lot more heat than lower producing ones
shoes
April 13 2017
If you are anything like me, you have a wide array of thin, holy, worn out t-shirts specifically for farm use, and they are cluttering your closet
Farmtour1
April 12 2017
From the East Coast to the West Coast, I have had the opportunity to tour several dairy farms and expand my knowledge of the dairy industry simply by spending an hour observing an operation
flies
March 30 2017
Spring has finally made its debut, but with it comes some pesky insects, the most common being flies
UW-Madison
March 29 2017
Deciding what college to attend is not as easy as it looks as there are many factors to evaluate and consider
wildfire
March 16 2017
While working on homework late one night, my roommate crept into my room to inform me about the wildfires, which were sweeping the Plains only a few hours from our home
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March 15 2017
Twenty young 4-H’ers huddled around our leader’s dining room table on a Wednesday night judging the annual Hoard’s Dairyman Cow Judging Contest
State Fair_ER
March 6 2017
All winter we analyze our calves in anticipation for the next show season. Are they big enough? Are they good enough?
laura-daniels-heartwood-farm
Feb. 22 2017
One of the best ways to get noticed on social media is to use live video – meaning no video editing. It’s in the moment
sand-system
Feb. 16 2017
I walked into the building and the smell hit me hard. So hard in fact, that my eyes began to water