Worldwide, dairy producers have put a great deal of focus on improving efficiencies through standard operating procedures, herd nutrition and reproductive strategies.

Dairy farmers have a vast array of emerging technological tools in their arsenal.

Getting younger people and skilled workers into dairy is a struggle not only in the U.S., but even more so in Europe, according to Dr. Nicola Blackie, keynote speaker during the Kentuckiana Dairy Exchange evening program near Campbellsville, Kentucky. She spent a month at the University of Kentucky, seeing how dairy is done in the U.S. and furthering her research on locomotion (mobility) scoring. She said the dairy industry in England is losing cow numbers and people.

Schaefer Ventilation Equipment, manufacturer of ventilation and thermal comfort products, has launched the Twister by Schaefer line of oscillating circulation fans.

Ian MacDonald, national director of marketing and nutrition at Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC), presented a five-year strategic plan during DFC’s annual general meeting in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on July 16. The plan exposed opportunities and threats to dairy products.

I’m sure you may have heard a farmer say, “Someday this farm will be his,” or “Someday we will get to the lawyer’s office, but we have work to do.”

Sunnyglade Farm near Steinbach, Manitoba, has seen its share of hard times. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) hit the Canadian cattle business hard in 2003.