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Twenty CattleWomen from across the United States recently received extensive public speaking training. The “National Beef Speakers Bureau” (NBSB) is part of the new “Tell the Beef Story”, a checkoff funded program managed by the American National CattleWomen, Inc. (ANCW).
Dr. Chris Connelly is a dairy veterinarian from Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania. He obtained an undergraduate degree in animal sciences from Penn State in 1999 and finished his doctorate at Virginia Tech in 2003.
Connelly currently works for Centre Herd Health Services, based in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, and serving mostly dairy clients in central Pennsylvania. He explains the five things he can't do without for his career.
Technology. Innovation. Modernization. Change. Are these “scary” words for you?
As dairy producers, I’m sure you hear and read about all the new and innovative technologies available to you that will help improve profits, safety and time. But how many of these changes will truly generate a return on your investment?
As we walk through dairy operations, we help producers determine what they need to do to profitably produce higher quantities of higher-quality milk. Sometimes our recommendation is focused on udder hygiene.
Twenty-three years ago, one late afternoon in Abbeville, Alabama, seven-year-old Chance Armstrong ran out of options.
After a week of suffering, his newborn calf’s health had worsened. Anxious, worried and not knowing what to do, he picked up the phone and made an emergency call.
Leptospirosis is a disease that can impact the bottom line of every dairy producer, mainly through lost reproductive efficiency. Leptospirosis is a zoonotic bacterial disease that affects mammals worldwide. The definition of a zoonosis is a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people.
Leptospires are gram-negative bacteria that can survive for considerable periods of time in moist soil or standing water. Warm, moist conditions are ideal for the spread of leptospirosis.
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Summary: In his March 1st article, Red Garner explained the benefits that biochar, one of the products from the process of converting biomass into a carbon-rich soil, can have in regards to dairy manure. Three commenters also shared their successes from adding biochar to manure.
Because this article was so popular, we asked Garner a follow-up question:
Q: What most intrigues dairy producers about biochar? Why are they interested in it?
The EPA on Dec. 29 issued its pollution controls aimed to restore the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
Calling it a “pollution diet,” EPA established its final total maximum daily load (TMDL).
This action identifies the necessary reductions of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment from the watershed to clean the Bay and the region’s streams, creeks and rivers by 2025, with 60 percent to be completed by 2017.
The agency said that continued poor water quality, despite 25 years of restoration efforts and federal consent decrees, dating from the late 1990s, prompted the TMDLs.
The other day I was mopping my floor with my fancy mop, one that piddles on the floor and I mop it up, cleaning the floor like magic! I smiled as I remembered my childhood and teenage years, when I was floor cleaning Cinderella-style on my knees with a pan of water and a scrub brush.
It is not uncommon to open the hood of a new diesel pickup and see a slew of wires and hoses and underneath it all something which resembles an engine.
What happened to the good old days when we used to actually be able to see the engine and be able to work on it when we popped the hood? How did we get to this point with the light-duty diesel industry?
Let’s take a step back in time when Ford and GM and Chrysler introduced their light-duty diesel engines. The year was 1983 and the engine was the 6.2-liter diesel.
