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Midwest/North: More grazing days = more profit

July 23, 2025
Travis Meteer

Allowing cattle to graze into late fall and early winter is crucial to maximizing profits. Stockpiling cool-season forages and growing cover crops for forage present opportunities to extend the grazing season.


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Midwest/North: Manage your herd, manage drought

June 25, 2025
Travis Meteer

Consider a few animal management strategies to mitigate the effects of drought.


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Midwest/North: Focus on the fundamentals

May 22, 2025
Travis Meteer

While better cattle prices are a relief to many, it is important not to lose sight of the basics.


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Ruth Klossner's Moo-seum of cow items

May 22, 2025
Audrey Schmitz

In a quiet corner of Minnesota, in a home bursting at the seams, lives the Guinness World Record holder for the largest collection of cow-related items. What began as a simple admiration for dairy cows has transformed into a one-of-a-kind collection that spans over 21,805 unique items and fills every room of Ruth Klossner’s house.


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Michigan dairy farm gives back through school nutrition program

De Saegher Dairies’ Fuel Up Little Learners program meets the nutritional needs of children during non-school hours, specifically over the weekends or longer breaks.
May 13, 2025
Audrey Schmitz

Motivated by their journey as Belgium immigrants turned American citizens, De Saegher Dairies launched Project FULL – Fuel Up Little Learners, a weekend nutrition program feeding hundreds of local schoolchildren. What began as a desire to give back has evolved into a movement aimed at ending childhood hunger – one backpack at a time.


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Federal government drops charges against South Dakota ranchers

May 12, 2025
Carrie Veselka

Federal authorities formally dropped the charges levied against South Dakota ranchers Charles and Heather Maude on April 28, following a nearly yearlong dispute with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) over a 25-acre parcel of land bordering the federally administered Buffalo Gap National Grasslands in South Dakota.


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Midwest/North: Hay storage tips

April 22, 2025
Travis Meteer

Proper storage of hay prior to feeding is important to reducing waste, avoiding nutrient loss and maintaining palatability.


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A mother-daughter duo: Raising Scottish Highland beef at Forage Girls Farm

April 18, 2025
Olivia Sip

Grit and resilience describe Shawn and Molly Brown, a mother-daughter duo raising Scottish Highland beef cattle at Forage Girls Farm in Wisconsin. While running a cattle ranch has its challenges, the Browns share the rewards ranch life has to offer.


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Midwest/North: Breeding season bandits

March 20, 2025
Travis Meteer

With breeding season approaching, let’s look at some areas of focus that could be robbing from conception rates. Some factors that I think deserve discussion are cow condition, cow requirements, lush pastures, timing of vaccinations, lack of heterosis, stress and bull fertility.


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Measure It to Manage It: Feed efficiency data improves culling and breeding decisions

Ryzebol Dairy gathers feed efficiency data and uses it to advance culling and breeding decisions and change ingredients in the ration.
March 20, 2025
Audrey Schmitz

When Ryzebol Dairy purchased a feed efficiency service from Afimilk, its goal was to identify cows not only producing more milk but also converting feed into milk well. The service determines each animal’s feed consumption efficiency based on data that represents the relationship between daily average milk yield and daily average feed consumption. It indicates whether increasing the feed yields more milk.



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