I am in travel status as of this writing. With increasing frequency, I am drawn to military locations outside Baghdad.

The Idaho Dairymen’s Association invited dairy producers from around the state to hear a panel of speakers discuss the industry’s current milk price situation at the Canyon Crest Event Center in Twin Falls, Idaho, October 9, 2009.

Producers can’t change the price of milk, but they can examine ways to make their operations more efficient in good times or bad. When dairies are making money, it is easy to forget the details, but in tough times, reexamining current feed and vaccination protocols can ensure maximum production.

Dr. Larry Fox presented on fundamental principles of milking management and mastitis – the nature of the disease and its control – to students in the Southern Great Plains Dairy Consortium (SGPDC). After the lecture, students took part in a milking system analysis laboratory exercise done on a large commercial dairy operation.

Just before World Dairy Expo, I had the pleasure of attending the Energy Production from Anaerobic Digestion of Dairy Manure short course in Madison, Wisconsin.

EPA finalizes the nation’s first greenhouse gas reporting system On January 1, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will, for the first time, require large emitters of heat-trapping emissions to begin collecting greenhouse gas (GHG) data under a new reporting system.

As sawdust supplies in the U.S. grew tighter, dairymen found it to be an expensive, and sometimes non-existent, bedding material.

Three years ago, Harry Faber was running low on sawdust bedding for his 250 milking cows, but when he called for more he was told more could not be received.

Crying over spilled manure has become a favorite subject of mainstream media.

Increasingly stringent air-emission regulations and demands to better control odors has put an economic strain on industries that recycle large amounts of organic materials, such as compost facilities, dairies and feedlots.