As replacement heifer prices continue to reach historic highs, today’s dairy producers must focus on getting the most out of their replacements

All producers are excited to watch their upcoming replacement heifers develop, in anticipation of performance in the milking string as the top genetics of the herd

In a recent University of Florida postpartum study by Santos et al. (2025)*, researchers evaluated the effects of applying a single dose of FerAppease® – a unique analogue of the naturally occurring...

Bartovation LLC, a recognized innovator in agricultural and sanitizer test‑strip technology for more than a decade, unveiled its newest solution for dairy producers: the Bartovation SCC Cow’s Milk...

Short-duration antibiotic treatment eliminates infections efficiently to get cows back in the milking string sooner

Proactively monitoring your animals for Staphyloccoccus aureus is the best plan of action for controlling this mastitis pathogen because it can silently affect cows and infect others for years before clinical...

Mastitis can be caused by many pathogens, but if you ask any dairy veterinarian or farmer which is the most damaging, the odds are good that their response will be Staphylococcus aureus

Pathogens that cause mastitis can be transferred via the environment or the milking process

Farmers are well aware of the challenges that come with various strains of salmonella, but handling an outbreak of sick animals can still be difficult. What can be done when Salmonella Dublin (S. Dublin)...

Subclinical mastitis, by definition, rarely gets noticed because it’s not visual. However, nearly 75 years ago, the California Mastitis Test (CMT) was introduced to help illuminate this mystery

The biggest loss from a case of mastitis is discarded milk

Mastitis, the inflammation of one or more mammary glands, is one of the most important diseases in dairy production

When it comes to milk quality, there are details I can see now that I couldn’t before we had our voluntary milking system

Summer’s heat and humidity bring challenges of heat stress, bacteria, and flies to our animals

You may recall middle or high school teachers using Venn diagrams to illustrate correlations between two different subjects

With the heat comes the flies, and our farm uses several methods to keep these pests off our cows

Recently, I attended a herd health talk in which the presenter described a disease as the “silent thief,” and it struck me that, in my experience, Prototheca mastitis could be viewed analogously

“We always say prevention is key to milk quality,” said Penn State Extension educator Greg Strait. “We try to help cure the problem . . . but we want to prevent that problem when we arrive...

“Milking is a complex interaction where the dairyman, the cows, and the milking unit need to work as one,” said Greg Strait, an extension educator in Pennsylvania’s Fulton County