Test your cow comfort management

October 28, 2011

The University of Minnesota Extension has a quiz on its website. Designed by Dr. Marcia Endres, University of Minnesota dairy management specialist, the quiz titled, How comfortable are your cows?, helps milk producers think about management practices on the dairy farm to improve cow comfort and automatically gives you a score to measure how you are doing.

To take the quiz, click here and look for the link in the upper right hand corner next to the Milk Quality Practices quiz developed by Dr. Jeff Reneau. PD

—From Minnesota Milk Minute

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