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Dairy producers and industry consultants attending Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin's Managers Academy heard from business management expert Dr. Allan Gray as part of the annual three-day training event.
Gray sought to distinguish for the more than 80 dairy owners, managers and consultants in the room the difference between leadership and management. Click here to see photos from the event.
The phrase is gaining traction as farmers and ranchers work to do right by animals, the land and their agricultural heritage – and consumers, meantime, increasingly want to know where their food comes from and how it’s raised.
But what does “sustainable agriculture” really mean, and what are the critical production practices associated with the approach?
Another drought year ahead or not, adding more forages to the grazing mix helps during the annual summer slump, says a University of Missouri Extension forage specialist. Rob Kallenbach advocates more alfalfa, although the legume called “the queen of forages” has fallen out of favor with some farmers.
A new agreement that will expand access for U.S. beef to Japan is being hailed by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) as a positive step for the American beef industry as well as the Japanese trade and consumers.
The 2013 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Trade Show, taking place Feb. 6-9 in Tampa, Florida will offer something for everyone.
Spring calving is just around the corner, providing the promise of a new calf crop and excitement for the future. Steps taken today can set cows up for a successful calving season. However, poor preparation has a direct impact on the health and well-being of those calves as well as future reproductive performance of the herd, says Ted Perry, beef nutritionist with Purina Animal Nutrition LLC.
After a year of challenges – highlighted by the worst drought in more than a half-century – the U.S. red meat (beef, pork and lamb) industry is focusing on 2013 as a year of great opportunities to increase the value those agricultural exports bring to exporters, processors, producers and the broad American agricultural industry that supports them.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a new microloan program from the USDA designed to help small and family operations, beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers secure loans under $35,000.
The new microloan program is aimed at bolstering the progress of producers through their start-up years by providing needed resources and helping to increase equity so that farmers may eventually graduate to commercial credit and expand their operations.
This article was #10 of the Top 25 most well-read articles on www.progressivedairy.com in 2013. It was published in the Jan. 30, 2013 Extra e-newsletter. Click here for the full list of the Top 25.
In late 2012, dairy producers were introduced to milk-based pregnancy testing, a new method to determine whether cows are bred or open. Maine-based IDEXX Laboratories partnered with Antel Bio Systems to bring the IDEXX Milk Pregnancy Test to the market, while Animal Profiling International, Inc. (API) of Portland, Oregon, launched EasyPreg. Both of these tests determine pregnancy based on the concentration of pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs), and they do so with a high level of accuracy when samples are taken at 35 days or more after breeding.
