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Sept. 8 2022
Summer’s heat and humidity bring challenges of heat stress, bacteria, and flies to our animals
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July 14 2022
If our animals get sick or injured, we do anything we can to help them heal. These two success stories are examples of that commitment
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July 1 2022
Your dairy experience can bring value to careers both inside and outside of agriculture
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June 14 2022
Corn Silage: From Seed to Feed is the latest offering from the Hoard’s Dairyman bookstore
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May 26 2022
Efforts by checkoff programs to promote June Dairy Month will highlight the farmers behind dairy foods
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May 13 2022
With the heat comes the flies, and our farm uses several methods to keep these pests off our cows
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March 25 2022
“They look like corporate, professional people wearing suits,” my friend exclaimed as I was talking to her about the Alliance’s work monitoring animal rights extremism
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Feb. 17 2022
Heat detection on our farm got more technical yet simpler over time
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Nov. 4 2021
A world without animal agriculture wouldn’t be good for the nutritional viability of many people
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July 30 2021
With more emphasis being placed on the well-being of livestock all the time, students can gain experience in this type of evaluation through the Animal Welfare Assessment Contest
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July 26 2021
The annual Dairy Experience Forum proved that consumers recognize the need for dairy products in the diets, but they crave more insight on farming
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July 23 2021
With a small, four person staff strictly made up of family, formal business meetings are replaced by spontaneous planning sessions in passing, at the dinner table, or while working cattle on our dairy...
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July 22 2021
We added a small milk culturing lab to our farm, and I highly recommend it to other farmers
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July 7 2021
As companies work toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions, farmers may be the ones taking the greatest risks to meet this goal
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June 28 2021
While our methods may have changed over time, providing a safe product for our consumers is the goal of every dairy farmer
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May 13 2021
I was once told by a vet, “The scours didn't kill your calf, you did.” I was completely appalled at the fact that he had just accused me of letting my calf die
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Nov. 17 2020
In my last blog, I shared insights from the Animal Agriculture Alliance’s report from the virtual Farmed Animal Conference E-Summit (FACES) hosted during the summer
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Nov. 11 2020
Managing the why and not the people is the key differentiator between many businesses. Oftentimes, people have the opposite in place because it seems easier at first
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Sept. 9 2020
I know you’ve heard it before: “‘So-and-so’ is a cow whisperer; they seem to know a cow is sick before the cow does!” If you’re the lucky recipient of such high praise,...
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Sept. 3 2020
Nearly every year we have had severe heat stress within our dry cow group. This happened for the most part because they were used to living life