With the new year, we tend to strive for positive change and set goals to help us achieve this change. This idea can be applied to a transition cow program.

This year’s symposium on bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) hosted almost 200 cattle producers, researchers and practicing technical service and university extension veterinarians.

The dairy industry in south Florida has seen its share of changes in the last 70 years, and producer Red Larson has witnessed all of them from his start as a hand milker to the large dairy operations he manages today.

There is a movement afoot in America to discredit the Founding Fathers and to spread the pernicious lie that this nation was not founded on Christian principles.

In the movie Long Kiss Goodbye, Morgan Freeman’s character practiced a habit of saying out loud to himself, “I’m putting my car keys on the dresser” “... on the kitchen counter” “... on the night stand” as he laid down the object.

Preventing molds and mycotoxins in dairy cattle feed is imperative to keep a herd healthy and on track to meet operational goals. Since there are few ways to overcome issues once mycotoxins are present, it is essential to prevent them from creeping into the ration.

Value added, or the process of increasing the economic value and consumer appeal of a product, has been utilized for many years in agriculture. Forage analysis is one example of “value” that has been “added” to hay, haylage or other forages.

You know the abandoned horse tragedy is getting worse when people start dumping colored horses.

I am sitting in a large classroom at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI). Around me are about 70 adults.

If you’re buying much feed from off-farm sources, you are well aware of higher feed prices.