The results are in from Progressive Dairyman's dairy reform poll.

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Eight bovine veterinary students from across the U.S. each received $1,500 awards and all-expenses-paid trips to the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Aug. 18-21. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health sponsored the Bovine Veterinary Student Recognition Awards Program and recognized the students Aug. 19.

Forage producers and educators gathered August 12, 2010 in Kimberly, Idaho for the Forage Harvest Field Day to learn about current projects being conducted at the research farm.

The Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour recently completed another successful evaluation of corn and soybean crops in the Midwest, relying upon the talents of more than 70 crop scouts traveling through seven states.

The Sam and Glen Coblentz Farm is a 105-cow Holstein dairy in Guthrie, Kentucky, where cows are housed on a bedded pack and milked twice a day in a double-6 parallel parlor. The farm, 620 acres in total, is made up of 500 acres owned and 120 rented. Heifers are raised on the home farm until weaning and then at 300 pounds are moved to a rented facility. At about 750 pounds, heifers are moved to pasture, bred, and returned to the milking herd to calve at 24 months of age. A new barn, 60 feet by 200 feet, was built in 2007 across the road from the dairy to house the heifers on a bedded pack during the winter.