Feed costs per pound of dry matter are rising as corn and soybean meal prices climb, squeezing farmers’ profit margins. Strategies to improve ration economics while maintaining milk yield are discussed....
Jim Davenport, a dairy farmer from Ancramdale, N.Y., presents “Clean cows make clean milk.” According to Davenport, “The most important contact surface on the dairy is the teat and the cow attached to...
Heat stress during late gestation has significant negative effects on the productivity of the cow in the next lactation. Emerging evidence suggests that the developing fetus is also negatively impacted,...
