Patz Corp. has announced the availability of the new Tundra Pro II hydraulic pump and hydraulic power unit.

Most Progressive Cattleman readers have been expanding their herd and will continue to do so, even after the recent drop in cattle market prices.

A year ago, our somatic cell count (SCC) was running in the upper 300,000s, and we were looking to make improvements. We had previously discussed SCC and measures that could help reduce it with our part-time employees (who do much of the milking), but it seemed like they weren’t overly interested, and we weren’t making much progress.

Women have been an integral part of the dairy industry for a long time. After watching my own mother tame a number of wild barn cats, I would guess that women were probably involved in domesticating the cow.

When I was asked recently to write an article about my successes in leading in a non-traditional role, I really had to take a step back; as director of product supply for Canada and lead for the Regina manufacturing and distribution facility, I had never really considered that this is what I was doing.