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Wisconsin is known for cheese, ice cream and all things dairy. Along with those products are its reputation for beef cattle. Jim and Roxanne Lund are part of the few who are changing that.
Dairyman Evan Hillan says within the last six months the dairy has seen reduced use of timed A.I., fewer open days and lower culling and mortality rates. The dairy has also increased pregnancy rates and pounds of energy-corrected milk. The results are the effects of his farm implementing activity monitoring and AI from a new entrant into the U.S. market – Connecterra.
Something pounded into Scott Blevin’s brain as a kid milking cows on a 5,500-cow dairy in Oklahoma was the importance of maintaining clean, dry udders.
Bred for performance, easy fleshing and superior udders with a moderate frame, Woodhill Farms produces Angus cattle that are profitable from birth to the rail.
The case in favor of how valuable a forage test can be is solid and largely undisputed, but how often do those tests need to be performed to be most efficient?
On this episode of the Progressive Dairy podcast, host Peggy Coffeen sits down with Jessica Pralle-Trimner of Miltrim Farms, Inc., in Athens, Wisconsin, to dig into the data she uses daily to manage 1,800 cows milked in a 30-box robot barn.
At Edgewood Dairy in Custer, Wisconsin, the herd averages a daily milk production of 92 pounds per cow. Just 10 years ago, their average was in the low-80-pound range.
Farming in northeastern Wisconsin’s Kewaunee County, the Ducat and
Bogart families found they shared more than just proximity when each
began exploring expansion plans more than 15 years ago.
