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It is 10 a.m. on a November morning in 1981. A 15-year-old boy is standing across the desk from his dad at his dad’s cardboard factory. The dad is screaming and complaining, pointing out who knows what. And then he comes down on the young boy, telling him he can’t do anything right.
I was born and raised in St. Charles, a rural town in southeastern Idaho. No, my parents didn’t run a potato farm, although the size of our potato garden might lead you to believe so. Rather, we ran a small cattle ranch.
Earlier this year the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security held a hearing to learn what is needed to transfer from H-2A to a workable agricultural guest worker program.
Here are excerpts of testimony presented at the hearing.
With 15 specialty sessions offered at the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) Business Conference recently, there was something for everyone.
It is always a challenge to determine which session to attend. Progressive Dairyman selected four of them, and each are recapped below.
More attendees came to the biennial Western Dairy Management Conference in Reno, Nevada, than did in 2011. They heard topics that emphasized feed management, heifer-rearing, labor management and animal care, reproduction efficiency and facility design.
Does it matter how checkoff spends your money?
When Progressive Dairyman learned that the dairy checkoff would be footing the bill for third-party verification of the National Dairy FARM Program, we wanted to know your thoughts on the matter.
My day starts as it usually does three days a week, with a 6 a.m. Spanish class over Skype with my teacher, who is at an immersion school in Puebla, Mexico.
Our lessons normally consist of listening and grammatical exercises, followed by reading and comprehension of an article from El Lechero selected by my teacher.
If you’re milking your herd with an automatic milking system (AMS), chances are you see your cows as robot customers. And as the saying goes: The customer is always right.
Robotic dairy owners and herd managers should be asking themselves: “Do I have the right plan in place with detailed strategies and standard operating procedures to motivate and help my customers perform their best – or in other words, achieve their genetic potential?”
It’s been said that “it’s hard to be a bright light in a dim world.” For success to be achieved, the environment must provide the essential components.
New research brings this statement to light: Proper parlor and dairy facility lighting may play a role in herd performance and an operation’s bottom line.
Cooling your cows when temperatures start climbing is not a novel idea, but it’s also not an idea to simply discard altogether.
Although we are still a ways from reaching those scorching summertime temperatures, now is the time to think about cow cooling.
