Dairy Management Inc. CEO Tom Gallagher joins Editor Walt Cooley for a discussion about how the dairy checkoff has navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. Gallagher talks about where dairy promotion may go in the future, as well as the changing landscape for fluid milk processing and promotion. 

This episode’s guest is Dr. Tom Earleywine. He is the milk replacer director of nutritional services at Land O'Lakes. He joins Progressive Dairy Editor Walt Cooley to talk about weaning and how it’s changed over the last several years. 

We’re living through some of the most challenging, unprecedented times in our lives as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. To help farmers nationwide weather this crisis, Dairy Management Inc.

The Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) export assistance program and CWT member cooperatives benefited all U.S. dairy farmers in 2020byexporting189million pounds of cheese, butter and whole milk powder.

The U.S. dairy industry has been ready for this opportunity. We knew there would come a day when our customers and consumers would ask us to quantify how the work we do on our dairy farms is good for the planet.

When prepartum cows are fed a negative DCAD diet, inducing a mild compensated metabolic acidosis, calcium status is improved, resulting in healthier, more productive cows. Recently, some nutritionist have been feeding even lower-DCAD diets (more anions) to acidify cows more deeply than the majority of published research. At these higher, more extreme levels of acidification, cows may walk a fine line between being OK and being overwhelmed by uncompensated metabolic acidosis. Progressive Dairy Editor Audrey Schmitz spoke with Tim Brown to hear more about DCAD myths and the optimum level for negative DCAD diets. 

Seven or eight years ago, I had no idea what Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) was or what it did.

Today’s episode provides summaries of three different articles we’ve published this past year on manure management. Listen in to find out how to improve nitrogen efficiency from farm to field, what can be done to get the most value from manure and which manure system will make a good addition to your farm.

We’ve all heard the phrase, “The only constant in life is change,” and today’s dynamic global landscape certainly reflects that sentiment.

At the beginning of 2020, AABP updated its production practice guidelines for dehorning calves, and one of the significant updates was a recommendation for pain mitigation.