Many of us have experienced a growling chatter emitting from the brakes of our tractors when we apply either brake independent of the other or both together. I had been having this trouble on an older 510 industrial John Deere backhoe and finally broke down and took it to the shop.

In baseball, team batting average is a great indication of how successful a team will be. The major league teams that play in the World Series have some of the best batting averages in the league.

Jan. 1, 2017, will bring about two big changes for the dairy industry. First, the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) will go into effect, requiring a VFD from a licensed veterinarian for all medically important antibiotics administered in feed.

Incoming executive vice presidentAmerican Association of Bovine Practitioners For the first time in 11 years, the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) will have a new executive vice president.

Mastitis represents a major economic challenge for dairy farmers. Additionally, it’s no secret that antibiotic usage in food animals is a hot-button issue with consumers. For dairy cattle, mastitis treatment represents an avenue of antibiotic usage.

“It is important to sit down with your veterinarian at least twice a year to review vaccination protocol,” said Patrick Gorden, DVM, with Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

For the fresh cow, the entire transition period is a series of stress events.

“When it boils down to it, as one veterinarian put it at AABP, ‘Veterinarians have made our living responding to death, disease and destruction.’ We need to change that model,” Jennifer Walker said at the 2015 Western Canadian Dairy Seminar in Red Deer, Alberta.

Back in the day, I studied Greek theater. As many of you know, the Greeks performed in huge outdoor amphitheaters, so they used gigantic masks equipped with megaphones to portray their characters. The modern word hypocrisy came from those masks.

By a slight margin, most Progressive Cattleman online readers believe that meat raised from livestock that consume GMO feed should not be exempt from GMO food labeling laws.