There are several factors to consider when upgrading a milking system, particularly if that upgrade goes from a traditional parlor to robots – including cost, feasibility, labor and herd adaptation among others. 

A collaboration between scientists from government, academia and industry sectors has successfully produced the first gene-edited calf with resistance to bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), a disease that costs the U.S. cattle industry billions of dollars annually.

Nebraska producers Brock and Heidi Terrell and University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) extension educator Mary Drewnoski helped address whether strip grazing is worth the additional time and labor when utilizing cover crops in the fall season.

Adoption of advanced application technology is providing an economic alternative to costly commercial fertilizers, while also organically building soil biology.

Dad made a turn on the hillside and looked back to see a fire starting from where he had just driven.