Complex trace minerals listed by OMRI for use in certified organic feed formulations

Over the course of more than two decades, the Penn State Dairy Science Club has continued to improve upon their annual consignment sale, the Nittany Lion Fall Classic.

After nearly a decade of planning and budgeting and a year of construction, the Dairy Learning Center at University of Wisconsin – River Falls (UWRF) was completed in October 2007.

Students and faculty at Iowa State University are thrilled about the recent addition to their stomping grounds.

Progressive Dairyman has been awarded the James Flanagan Award by peer judges of the Livestock Publications Council (LPC).

As a result of our just-completed herd retirement program and recently increased activity under our export assistance program, we have received inquiries from a few producer-members asking about the overall operation of the CWT program. Rather than respond to these inquiries individually, I felt all CWT members would be interested in the nature of the questions and our responses.

Dairy producers and industry representatives from around the globe will converge on Madison, Wisconsin, when World Dairy Expo takes place September 30 – October 4. It is, after all, where the dairy industry meets.

Despite a recent slump in the economy, agricultural students can plan on a “bright future” in the industry, says Eric Spell, president of AgCareers.com. The recruitment website, which started as a newsprint publication 10 years ago, has become the leading online career portal in the agricultural industry. Spell says more than 1,000 employers use the site throughout a year.

In the June 17 issue of Progressive Dairyman this year, our staff published a story about how the dairy industry, and agricultural college students in particular, has been utilizing Facebook.com. As we have come to discover, it’s not just the students who are taking advantage of the social networking site.

The “best and brightest” students from universities in the Southwest region spent the first half of their summer vacation in Clovis, New Mexico. Eighteen students participated in the first-ever Advanced Large Herd Management program, which ran from May 19 to June 27.