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The Dairy Practices Council (DPC) has published four new guidelines, which were distributed electronically to its entire membership and are for sale on the DPC website.
When I read magazines like Cosmopolitan, I’m not looking for the cutting edge of journalism. I’m looking for some light reading to keep me entertained during my commute on the metro. So, I got a little salty when I opened the March issue of Cosmopolitan to find an article titled “Should You Be Drinking Milk?”
Farm banks significantly increased agricultural lending by 13.6 percent in 2014 and held $94.6 billion in farm loans at the end of the year, according to the American Bankers Association’s (ABA) annual Farm Bank Performance Report.
Putting up quality hay requires close attention to details. Crop maturity, weather, conditioning practices and storage decisions all contribute to the nutritional quality of the final product. Hay quality is never higher than the moment just before cutting.
During the 2015 National Mastitis Council meeting, Dr. Brandon Treichler, quality control veterinarian with Select Milk Producers, and Scott Hughes of Hughes Consulting Services, led an on-farm workshop to improve milk quality observation techniques.
Zinpro Corporation recently announced the launch of its First Step App, a new educational resource for the dairy industry. The app features a locomotion scoring assessor to help track locomotion scores and estimate the cost of lameness in dairy cattle.
