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Merial’s Best in Class Dairy website, www.BestInClassDairies.com, features a training module, which is part of a new comprehensive educational initiative. The new website and training module provide dairies access to valuable information and educational tools to help ensure healthy cows, the highest standard of milk and profitable operations. The web-based audiovisual training module, which addresses pre- and post-milking procedures, is the first in a series of training modules that will be offered to dairy operation workers through this site.
A new Genex Cooperative, Inc. program can determine the best mating option for a cow or heifer based on the animal’s genomic PTAs (GPTAs) rather than phenotypic scores, performance, parent averages or pedigree indexes. This genomic mating program, G-MAP, is the newest technology available in the genomic revolution.
Dairy herdspersons, cow-care specialists and herd owners hungry for information and skills that can help them address dairy cow lameness are encouraged to attend one of two hoof care training workshops offered by the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin.
Hay and forage producers have a wide variety of equipment options for raking and merging swaths or windrows.
Selecting the proper equipment and operating it correctly will ensure high-quality hay and forage with a cost effective harvesting system.
Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative announced $8.7 million in earnings from 2010 operations at its 91st Annual Business Meeting held March 29 in Asheville, North Carolina, and continued March 31, in Ellicott City, Maryland. Reported as the second best year in recent history, Maryland & Virginia credits stewardship for the cooperative’s tremendous success.
For those who have not yet negotiated pasture rental rates for this year, Kansas State University (K-State) agricultural economist Kevin Dhuyvetter reminds that there are several factors that landowners and livestock producers should consider as they negotiate rates.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) interim Tier 4 regulations mandating lower emissions for high-horsepower tractors went into effect January 1, 2011.
