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The Dairy Practices Council has recently published three new guidelines. The guidelines were distributed to the entire DPC membership and are also available on the DPC website.
The guidelines are Selected Personnel in Milk Sanitation; Component Test Variations in Raw Milk; and Automatic Milking Systems – Questions Dairymen Need To Ask.
A dairy farm in Vermont employed a five-step collaborative approach to investigate and reduce the level of phosphorus going into the Lake Champlain watershed, helping to preserve the health of the ecosystem and the area’s $3.8 billion tourism industry.
Shelburne Farms, a nonprofit environmental education center and working dairy farm, brought together landowners, residents, and researchers to investigate and improve water quality.
Brian Pacheco, a fourth-generation dairyman from Kerman, California, and chairman of the board of California Dairies, Inc. (CDI) is a recipient of an Award of Distinction from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at UC – Davis.
During a recent national sales meeting, colleagues in Pfizer Animal Health’s U.S. cattle and equine business unit decided to forgo some food and beverages throughout the week and donate the money saved to Bethel Orphanage in Juarez, Mexico. Pfizer’s $11,000 donation represents about 6 percent of the orphanage’s annual operating budget.
Fall frost is an annual concern for livestock producers because of the potential for prussic acid poisoning, but the potential for toxicity in livestock is of wider concern this year because of drought, an Ohio State University Extension forage specialist says.
Six new alfalfa varieties have been added to the CROPLAN seed lineup for ordering during fall 2012 and planting spring 2013. The new varieties greatly expand the number of Genuity Roundup Ready alfalfa offerings available from CROPLAN.
A panel of farm animal care specialists established to analyze undercover video investigations at livestock farms has completed a review of a recent investigation at a dairy in Idaho.
Hidden camera investigations at livestock farms have heightened public attention on animal care issues. In an effort to foster a more balanced conversation and to provide credible feedback to promote continuous improvement in farm animal care, the Center for Food Integrity (CFI) created the Animal Care Review Panel.
The panel was comprised of Dr. Temple Grandin, Colorado State University; Dr. Candace Croney, Purdue University; and Dr. Jim Reynolds, Western University. They agree that the practices seen in the video are unacceptable and clearly abusive.
Haptic Cow uses a virtual reality technology called haptics to create a 3-D virtual bovine reproductive tract that veterinary students can use to carry out virtual rectal examinations.
With most of the U.K.’s veterinary schools now Haptic Cow users, Virtalis is launching its veterinary training tool internationally.
Haptic force feedback technology has been deployed in the Haptic Cow to create a virtual bovine reproductive tract, positioned within a seemingly empty fiberglass model of the rear half of a cow.
Producers and veterinarians vaccinating with the Pfizer Animal Health Escherichia coli (E. coli) mastitis vaccine as part of a comprehensive dry cow management approach will now call it by a new name – ENVIRACOR J-5.
Previously known as ESCHERICHIA COLI BACTERIN – J5 STRAIN and UPJOHN J-5 BACTERIN, the E. coli mastitis vaccine remains the same product, which is purported to lessen the severity of E. coli mastitis.
