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When it comes to maintaining milk production during times of heat stress, we often look for the mechanical fix.
Fans, sprinklers, misters and other heat abatement systems can certainly be effective tools in minimizing the negative effects of hot temperatures and humid conditions, but the root of the problem is not always something adding another fan is going to solve. Sometimes, a few employee management tweaks are just what you need.
What is the cost of growing your own crops? Do you even care? You should care; feed costs are the largest cost of production for a dairy operation and play a key role in getting your company the best bottom line. Knowing your costs will help you decide which crops to grow, what quality of feed you need and how much is needed to match your feeding rations.
One of the benefits to adopting an automatic milking system is all of the information readily available for users to access.
In a webinar with the Penn State Extension Technology Tuesday series, Mat Haan, Penn State Extension dairy educator, and Steve Halahan, a dairy consultant and feed nutritionist for Cargill Animal Nutrition, reviewed the various forms of data generated and how they can be utilized by producers, nutritionists, veterinarians and other members of the farm team.
A farm had been losing money for years, and only its rising land values kept the bank complacent. The wife, Ida, laid down the law that either the farm started making money or it was to be sold, even if she had to file for divorce.
She loved her husband, Jack, but she didn’t want to spend her retirement years penniless because her husband had an addiction to machinery and wouldn’t listen to their vet.
The agriculture industry is fully aware of the need to educate the consumer base. As the average consumer is now two to four generations removed from the farm, agvocates across the nation are pushing out educational content that highlights the most recent science-based studies.
Farm liquidity has become a greater issue in recent years because of the increased volatility of earnings and cash flow. While no one knows what the future holds for sure, there are a few things we do know: 2014 was a great year for most dairies, and 2015 is shaping up to be a down year. We know good times are unlikely to continue forever uninterrupted.
Lush, green pastures are just around the corner, but before you open up the gates to turn cows and heifers out on grass, keep a few of these helpful hints in mind. Find out what the experts recommend in regards to fencing, managing pastures and controlling parasites.
For Dr. Luke Miller, the farm manager at Vierra Dairy Farm in Hilmar, California, the answer is yes; cloud-based data storage is right for their dairy. Although the process is not complete yet, Miller has been busy transitioning the 2,000-cow dairy over from DairyComp to the cloud.
If you’re like me and seeing a little more gray on the top or you have an occasional ache or pain you didn’t used to have, you are probably not in the millennial generation.
No, I was not born between 1982 and 2000, which are the traditional boundary years that define generation Y. (I was 19 years old in 1982. You can do the math.)
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