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BouMatic, a global dairy equipment manufacturer, launched BouMatic University, a new training organization with a global mission to use the industry’s latest technology and time-tested BouMatic milking principles for the education of its dealers, employees and key industry influencers.
Central Valley dairymen and two dairy nutrition companies recently gave a helping hand to a Visalia soup kitchen and Christian social service organization.
The Visalia Rescue Mission held its second annual Empty Bowls fundraiser dinner in Tulare County, California, in March. Diamond V and Nutrius sponsored the event and invited their local dairy clients to buy a ticket and attend. A minimum donation of $25 was required for a ticket.
Jessica Van Ginkel, community development director for the Visalia Rescue Mission, says ticket sales and donations helped raise more than $12,000 for the center. Some gave more than the requested $25 ticket price.
Dairy producers and industry professionals from across the Southwest attended this year's Southwest Dairy Day held in Stephenville, Texas on Thursday, May 5. This year, the event marked a special occasion as it was held in conjunction with the grand opening of the Southwest Regional Dairy Center.
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North West Labs in Jerome, Idaho, is now doing business as AgSource Laboratories. One of the most comprehensive agricultural testing organizations in the U.S., AgSource Laboratories operates out of seven locations across the country, including: Jerome, Idaho; Umatilla, Oregon; Lincoln, Nebraska; Ellsworth, Iowa; and Menomonie, Stratford and Bonduel, Wisconsin.
ANIMART, Inc. will host beef and dairy cattle fitting and showmanship demonstrations for all youth at the Dodge County Fairgrounds in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 23, for beef showmen and Tuesday, May 24, for dairy showmen.
All youth are invited to these complimentary, hands-on workshops intended to help teach youth about the art and techniques of proper animal care, including grooming and showing. This will help to achieve high placings with their 4-H and FFA livestock at summer shows.
Last month PETA took aim at the dairy industry. On the heels of Mercy for Animals’ footage of animal abuse on a Texas calf ranch, the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released its own set of standards of care for animals raised on dairy farms.
Based on comments received on the news release regarding the standards, not everyone agrees with PETA's position. Click here to read the comments.
In an interview with Progressive Dairyman, PETA’s Corporate Liaison Amber Driscoll said the standards are aimed at the dairy industry from farms to processors to end users.
“PETA is asking responsible companies who don’t want to be associated with this type of cruelty to adopt these minimum standards of care,” Driscoll said.
Once again the Four-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference is set to take place in early June. It will be held June 8-9 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, Iowa.
This conference, a collaboration of Extension professionals from Iowa State University, University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, and University of Wisconsin, was developed to provide timely research information for dairy industry professionals.
Industry experts with a vast array of expertise will converge at World Dairy Expo to help increase dairy operations profitability and efficiency as part of the 2011 Expo Seminars. Eight free seminars will be offered during the week of Oct. 4 through 8 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Learn more about: Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy, genomic testing, communicating with consumers, robotic milking, calf nutrition, somatic cell counts, feed costs and carbon emissions.
Living out his belief that service involves giving more than receiving led Robert Glock, D.V.M., Ph.D., to receive the Academy of Veterinary Consultants (AVC) Outstanding Service Award. The award was presented at the AVC spring meeting in April in Oklahoma City and was sponsored by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health.
The AVC Outstanding Service Award recognizes a member who has made outstanding contributions to AVC and the beef-cattle and veterinary medicine industries. Glock received a commemorative plaque, and Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health donated $2,000 to the AVC Foundation in his honor.
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