Al Schock found happiness believing in other people, telling jokes and selling pancake tickets.

Milk production per cow, according to the NASS Milk Production report released on December 18, for November was 1,679 pounds, up 25 pounds or 1.5 percent from a year earlier.

As veterinarians, “protecting, conserving and advancing inputs surrounding animal health” is our motto.

Because of weather conditions during the past growing season, mold and mycotoxin contamination of some crops, particularly corn, is common.

Treating preweaned calves soon after they become clinically infected usually results in more rapid recovery than when treatment is delayed.

“How am I doing?” Nearly all employees want an answer to this question.

I had the chance to attend the 2009 European Association of Animal Production meeting. It’s always interesting to learn about agriculture in other places.

I made the trip to Texas this fall and was able to revisit a couple of monumental memories, just to see if they were real.

I recently traveled to a Forward Operating Base in eastern Iraq, very near the Iranian border. There, my colleague, Dr. Jessie McCoy, DVM, and I completed several missions in the vast expanse of the desert.

Do not let the title of this column fool you into thinking that I am about to address Division 1 college sports.