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Crisis: A time of intense difficulty, trouble or danger; a time when a difficult or important decision must be made.
Crisis situations are not fun. No one looks forward to them or wishes they would happen, but they always do. It always seems to be at the worst possible time, too.
Dairy producers may not transport cattle as often as beef producers, but knowing how to handle cattle and being prepared for difficult situations is knowledge every dairyman should have.
“We are motivated to develop procedures that help us throughout the chain,” says Jeff Johnson, president of Out West Trucking.
The Dairy Worker Safety Training Using Mobile Technologies, provided by the University of Texas School of Public Health and the New Mexico State University Dairy Extension, is a new learning initiative that delivers safety training content to dairy workers using mobile devices.
Over the last 50 years, we have gone from feeding hay and grain to balancing rations for amino acids. With crops, we have gone from planting seed from last year’s crop to selecting varieties with specific nutritional traits.
Note: This is the first in a five-part series that explores the role of culture in dairy farm success and productivity.
People live and work in cultures. In fact, you have spent your whole life in various cultures, whether you realize it or not.
CAFOweb
By Glorieta Geoscience
California dairyman Brian Medeiros won’t be keeping his subscription to CAFOweb, Internet-based software for nutrient forecasting and tracking offered by New Mexico-based Glorieta Geoscience, after test-driving it for more than a year for free. However, he says the new program remains on his radar for future use.
It’s great to come up with an idea, but it’s useless unless the ideas get implemented into reality.
In the past five years, the thing that has surprised me the most is the low rate of implementation that I see on the most successful/competent farms.
When milk prices are high, it sure is tempting to overstock lactating pens in hopes of capturing a few more dollars at the end of the day. But how many cows can you pack in a pen before it affects profitability?
Dan comes into the milking parlor. The members of his five-person milking team are all standing around in the middle of the parlor. Dan fumes and comes down the hall yelling, “Get back to milking, we are going to be late! What are you doing standing there doing nothing?”
The primary focus of any dairy producer is to produce high-quality milk from healthy, well-cared-for cows. While this admirable goal seems simple, everyone involved in the dairy industry knows it is not as easy as it seems.
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