When an operation has a culture of care, everyone from CEO to calf raiser understands how and why to provide exceptional animal care, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.

Our industry responsibility is to ensure the welfare and safety of our animals at all life stages. Evaluating fitness to transport – the animal’s ability to withstand transportation without compromising its welfare – is an important piece of that.

Each summer, several animal rights extremist groups host their annual conferences to convene supporters, discuss new tactics and strategies to use against animal agriculture and rally around their missions of “total animal liberation.” This year, three conferences have been hosted so far.

It’s hard to believe another June Dairy Month and National Ice Cream Month have come and gone. While it was the culmination of several creative campaigns celebrating dairy as a nutritional powerhouse and the dedicated farmers who bring us milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream and more, we can’t stop the engagement now.

Winning coaches approach the season one game at a time. Positive people take life one day at a time. High-yielding farmers plant crops one field at a time. Can a high-performance dairy operation manage one cow at a time?

Dry, non-lactating dairy cows are more thermo-tolerant relative to their lactating counterparts, as they are not putting high levels of energy into making milk.