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It’s been said, “Free advice is always worth more than advice you have to pay for.” Barb said she remembered a time when farmers used what we call today “alternative medicine” on themselves and their animals.
My colleague and good friend June Grabemeyer, our Michigan NRCS state economist, and I recently visited a lovely dairy farm in northern Michigan. Here is a trip report.
Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Group Inc., a subsidiary of Ajinomoto Co. Inc., says it will construct a new plant at its Iowa-based Ajinomoto Heartland Inc. (AHI), in order to enhance the production capacity of a rumen protected lysine, AjiPro-L (AP-L), and to expand its sales in the marketplace.
Representatives from Vets Plus Inc. presented Sheila Rogers of Hy Ridge Holsteins LLC, Ridgeland, Wisconsin, with a check for $500 toward hiring a milking service for her dairy. Rogers milks 300 cows in a double-12 parlor and farms 800 acres of cropland.
Hubbard Feeds, a provider of researched-based nutritional products, has launched a new and improved website. The new, streamlined site provides customers with easier access to up-to-date product information, the latest industry news, products and management tips.
Take a look at the water in the troughs for your cows. There doesn’t seem to be much to it except maybe a little slimy growth or some feed particles.
It’s just this clear, cool stuff we (usually) pump out of the ground and give to the cows without a second thought. But look again. Or better yet, get it analyzed and evaluate what that water is delivering to your cows.
Wisconsin dairyman Ted Johnson arrived for the routine exam his doctor recommended at age 50 more worried about his cholesterol levels than the results of a different routine test.
“In my family, if you made it to age 59 and didn’t have a heart attack, you were probably going to live until you were 85 or 90,” says Johnson, owner of Horse Creek Holsteins with his wife Gretchen, in Star Prairie, Wisconsin.
“This was a little different because cancer was involved.”
Until now the U.S. has been mostly absent in the world’s largest dairy export market – whole milk powder.
But that is soon to change.
By next year, the U.S. will have the capacity to produce more than three times as much whole milk powder as it exported just a year ago.
That prospect has at least one industry analyst calling it a “game changer” for the U.S. dairy industry.
