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“My feed bill is too high. How can I cut my feed costs?” As nutritionists, it’s a question we hear often. And, on dairies with robots, it’s no different.
Dairy farmers are essential, and we knew this before any health crisis arrived. Even with COVID-19, many farms are carrying on with daily work, and not much has changed.
An employee training program is a vital piece of any successful dairy. Typically, employees are trained when they first start their jobs, then they receive continuous training throughout their employment. Having a solid employee training program will help ensure uniform completion of tasks, will assist in maintaining high-quality standards and is crucial to keeping your employees (and cows) safe.
Indecision may be due to not seeing a path forward, seeing multiple paths but struggling to choose one or being paralyzed by how to even start the decision-making process.
It’s been more than 30 years since Stephen Covey wrote and published his best-selling book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; however, the information he covered continues to be relevant.
Whether you are the landowner or the renter, sound legal advice is an “insurance policy” for both sides of a leasing arrangement, says Ed Cox, an attorney with the Iowa law firm of Craver, Grothe & Cox, LLP.
Almost two years ago we, like many dairy farmers, began breeding to beef in order to stabilize our herd size. Prior to the recent four-year downturn in prices, we’d had a steady flow of dairy sales of our excess animals.
‘I had COVID-19’: A hoof trimmer’s personal experience with coronavirusWilliam (Willie) Coyne is a hoof trimmer who travels throughout west-central Minnesota with his business, On the Money Hoof Care. He’s young. He’s active. He’s healthy. And in May, he contracted the coronavirus.
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