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Having an effective safety program is essential. It helps protect your employees, lowers your costs and increases your profitability.
For operations that involve working with and around animals, such as dairies, the program should incorporate safety practices and precautions related to zoonotic diseases, which are those diseases that can be transmitted between humans and animals.
Successful dairy farm businesses have the commonality of being “enterprising” in their approach to family and business. Said another way, it is rare to find a successful family business without a foundation of acceptance, challenge, open communications, love and forgiveness.
As the winter months approach, dairy owners should be reminded of the effects of working outdoors in cold environments. Cold may be an occupational health hazard for dairy workers who spend extended periods outdoors during the winter months.
At the 2013 Western Dairy Management Conference,Joe Harner of Kansas State University presented a paperentitled “Scientific Data for Developing Water Budgetson a Dairy.”
Farmers, including dairy farmers, may act together in marketing their agricultural products. This includes collectively bargaining and establishing prices for their products. The Capper-Volstead Act of 1922 gives farmers the legal authority to do this.
There’s an old saying, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”
What do you think? Would you agree?
Of course, you’re not a dog, and you probably don’t do any “tricks.”
Many people who work with cows on a daily basis have a solid understanding of cow behavior. Cows are fairly predictable.
What about the people you work with? Is their behavior predictable? How do we influence co-workers to perform day-to-day activities in a way that continually improves such things as safety, cow health, production and profitability?
Those who grew up in the ’80s or before may remember the popular TV series, “The A-Team.” In that series, the team patriarch John “Hannibal” Smith coined the phrase, “I love it when a plan comes together.”
At the Center for Dairy Excellence, we have the opportunity to watch time and time again as dairy farm families experience the benefits of seeing a plan come together.
“Dear Panera Bread Company, you’ve lost a customer.”
Blogger and southern Wisconsin dairy farmer Carrie Mess – or Dairy Carrie, as she’s known to her online fans – describes herself as honest and frank.
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