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Does your dairy have a culture of care?

To create a culture of care, dairies should focus on leadership commitment, zero tolerance for animal abuse, formalize SOPs, have continuous training, and monitor and measure their operation.
January 6, 2023
Jonathan Townsend

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.


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Assurance Watch: Ensure animal safety and wellness through fitness to transport

December 26, 2022
Beverly Hampton Phifer

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.


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Protecting yourself from animal rights activism starts on the farm

February 18, 2022
Casey Kinler
Olympic runner and dairy farmer Elle Purrier St. Pierre kicked off the 2022 Pennsylvania Dairy Summit in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, drawing parallels between training to become an Olympic athlete and dairy farming.
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Keep your farm safe from virtual activist attacks

June 3, 2020
Casey Kinler
The novel coronavirus has impacted daily tasks and routines for everyone. Stay-at-home orders and social-distancing guidelines have many isolating at home, and large gatherings are being replaced with Zoom meetings and FaceTime calls.
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What happened? What’s next? - FARM Animal Care Program 4.0 in effect in January

October 16, 2019
Dave Natzke
You’re busy milking cows, topping off forage inventories and making sure your employees aren’t spending too much time managing their fantasy football teams. With that in mind, Progressive Dairy looks at issues in the news impacting you and your dairy business.
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Dairy welfare audits: Maximizing benefit for your farm

July 1, 2019
Cassandra Tucker
Successful dairies have healthy cattle and consistent animal care. Dairy welfare audits aim to evaluate both and provide a structure for measuring performance of animal health and cattle care.
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The nuts and bolts of dairy welfare programs

February 22, 2019
Cassandra Tucker
Programs to address dairy cattle welfare come in different shapes and sizes. They range from those that serve niche markets are relatively small and aim to differentiate their product with an animal welfare label, to others like FARM, which represents over 95 percent of U.S. dairy farms.
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Bruised beef: Causes and prevention strategies

April 24, 2017
Gilda V. Bryant
Beef and dairy cattle have steadily grown larger for the last 30 years, thanks to improved genetics and nutrition. This sounds like great progress, but bruising in finished cattle causes a substantial $35 million loss to the beef industry annually.
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