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Nov. 11 2015
Veterinarian shares ready-to-use information. "Technology is great, but you still need to manage it," shared Scott Poock, D.V.M., during the Hoard's Dairyman webinar, "An update on repro technologies and...
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Nov. 6 2015
Where people shop for food is constantly moving away from traditional outlets. More and more these days, taking a quick trip down to the grocery store doesn't involve a grocery store at all. Instead, a...
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Oct. 28 2015
Now is the time to conduct a postmortem on your heat stress mitigation plan and evaluate potential modifications. With full bunkers and only a few remaining harvest tasks to check off the list, the warmth...
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Oct. 26 2015
Choosing the correct bedding material for your farm's system is an integral part of managing milk quality and production. Selecting the ideal bedding for a farm can be a difficult and intensive project....
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Oct. 2 2015
Growing up on a Guernsey farm in eastern New York, this year's silver anniversary Duncan MacKenzie recipient, Timothy Coon of Amenia, N.Y., came to his first World Dairy Expo in 1981 and hasn't missed...
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Oct. 2 2015
Walk-Era Holsteins of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., has been named as the 2015 McKown Master Breeder award winner
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Oct. 2 2015
Featuring deep classes and fancy cows, the International Brown Swiss Show did not disappoint. by Amanda Smith, Hoard's Dairyman Associate Editor The cows paraded in with the traditional fanfare of the...
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Oct. 1 2015
Annual banquet is a night to celebrate The National Dairy Shrine banquet will be held on Thursday, October 1, during World Dairy Expo. The organization will honor its pioneers, a distinguished dairy cattle...
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Oct. 1 2015
Whether you're here to take in a cattle show, visit with trade show attendees or catch a few seminars, there's plenty to be learned at World Dairy Expo. To test that knowledge, an Associate Editor took...
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Sept. 25 2015
Cows in Wisconsin had a lot, cows in California did not. Two very different songs sum up what milk production per cow was like in the nation's two biggest dairy states this summer. In Wisconsin it was...
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Sept. 24 2015
Leachate and runoff can drain nutrients from your bunk while hampering water quality. When it comes to feed, shrink – or nutrients that are lost before they have a chance to be consumed – can...
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Sept. 21 2015
Researchers are delving into animal personalities and the effects they have on production. They have personalities. For anyone who has managed cattle or spent much time around them at all, it is pretty...
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Sept. 15 2015
Sanitary feeding equipment is a vital part of the calf health equation, especially early in life. The equipment used to feed calves on your farm may look clean, but is it really? Oftentimes, there's more...
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Sept. 11 2015
Average cost is approximately one-third higher than it was in 2006. The cost of making milk never seems to go down, a hard reality that data from the nation's largest dairy accounting firm drives home...
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Sept. 3 2015
Circulating chilled water through a waterbed may be another avenue to alleviate heat stress. As the latter half of the year looms, our thoughts have started to turn toward harvest and our winter checklists....
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Aug. 25 2015
Genomic testing allows a dairy to be more selective about which heifers to keep as part of the future herd. By Our Hoard's Dairyman Farm began genomic testing Jersey heifer calves last year. Those test...
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Aug. 6 2015
Not all cases of mastitis need to be treated. Let the causative pathogen be your guide. "Do not administer antibiotics to cows that will not benefit," cautioned Daryl Nydam, Cornell University, at the...
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July 15 2015
Prefresh cows need adequate space to reach potential
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July 14 2015
When it comes to colostrum, quality and timing could be more important than the source
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July 10 2015
Last year was a blast from the past for dairies: feed costs dropped below 50 percent of income