TRENDING TOPIC ARTICLE: A.I. & BREEDING Published: December 12, 2011 Progressive Dairyman print issue In this past article, Lyle Kruse, vice president of U.S. market development at Select Sires, details the company’s development of Select Detect. to jump to the article.

The amount and level of drug residues found in tissue samples of slaughtered cattle has been well documented. Sixty-seven percent of the violations are found in cull dairy cows, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would like to know if there is any link to residues in milk produced from those same cows. “We don’t think we have any kind of widespread problem, but we think that the only responsible thing we can do is to test the milk to determine just what residues there are out there,” said Deborah Cera with the Division of Compliance, Center for Veterinary Medicine, FDA.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve come to realize the best part of holidays with little ones around is watching how excited they get about the surprises that await them. Whether it’s a birthday party, Christmas morning or Easter Sunday, their energy and excitement is off the charts. But as we get older, our enthusiasm for participating in some of these traditions just isn’t the same. Sure, the occasional scavenger hunt can be kind of fun, but being the only one who can’t find his plastic Easter egg tends to lose its luster 30 years later.

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Last Christmas season, I left readers with the following challenge: “I hope this Christmas season is extraordinary for you and your loved ones. Don’t let Christmas Eve pass without looking for a chance to make it so for someone else.”

reflect the quality content that Progressive Dairyman provides to its readers, both on www.progressivedairy.com and in print. Many of those Top 25 articles were online-exclusive and had a video component not available in our print publication. Progressive Dairyman wanted to recognize some of the cutting-edge topics and ideas presented in the print magazine over the past year. Each editor selected 8-10 articles they thought that Progressive Dairyman readers should have read. Out of those selections, here were the winners (in order that they appeared in the publication): Scroll down or to see comments from each editor about their selections. Click an article title to open that article in a new window.

Amanda Kunde Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Client Service Representative ANIMART, Inc.