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Managing nutrient absorption: Dealing with poor absorption, antagonisms

Focusing on maximizing nutrient availability and absorption is critical to develop and maintain a cost-effective nutrition program.
December 9, 2022
Stephen B. Blezinger

Millions of cows around the world consume diets that have been formulated as optimally as possible.


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Record calf and heifer info to boost success

Recording calf and heifer health events, growth, genetics and reasons for culling and utilizing this data can improve long-term calf and heifer management.
December 9, 2022
Robert Fourdraine

Typically, the majority of data recorded on a dairy are events and performance data related to the animals in the milking herd.


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Protect your lungs from invisible hazards

Safety considerations to protect dairy farmers and employees from hazards involved with grain dust, manure storage and farm chemicals.
December 9, 2022
Jim Versweyveld and John Shutske

Efforts to keep yourself and your workers safe should include a look at potential respiratory hazards that anyone who works on a dairy farm may encounter. Dairy producers are routinely exposed to a wide variety of respiratory hazards on the farm including dusts, molds, vapors, and gases.


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Large herds and robotics: How to manage your teams to support this change

An overview of the various employee roles that exist in a large robotic facility and suggested attributes to consider when hiring for these positions.
December 2, 2022
Stephanie Dillon

Are you evaluating the prospect of adopting robotic milking on a large scale? Are you curious what the team for this facility will look like?



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You are not alone

Finding ways to ask for help and spend more time with family builds a healthy legacy on the farm.
November 30, 2022
Elaine Froese

Remember, it is your farm, your family and your choice. Make great choices for family time.


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Don’t let the cold weather bite

Tips for preventing cold stress, hypothermia and frostbite for your family and employees as temperatures drop this winter.
November 7, 2022
Amber Adams Progar

In 2021, 33% of all workers in the U.S. were exposed to the outdoors while conducting work. One can assume the percentage of dairy workers exposed to the outdoors is much higher than 33%.


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The stress of grief

Tips offered for coping with various types of farm loss and grief.
November 3, 2022
Emily Krekelberg

We are all familiar with the common stressors in agriculture. It’s easy to point to price swings, government regulations, land competition, weather and disease when we talk about stress on the farm.


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Success in succession planning — financial analysis

A business transition comes with significant financial implications. Building a strong succession plan takes time and investment.
November 3, 2022
Travis Senn

Having a clear understanding of debt, whether long-term or short-term, fixed or variable, can help develop a strategy. 


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The cost of cattle nutrition

In a year like this one, producers can’t always pick and choose their primary feed source. Close attention to nutritional supplements is therefore even more important than in average feed years.
November 3, 2022
Trent Milacek

There is an increased focus on the feed industry and hay markets as producers scramble to determine how they will combat low forage supplies this winter.


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Stop, look and live gratefully: Managing chronic stress

Stress management is an essential business practice, and gratitude is an important way to reduce and better manage chronic stress while building resiliency.
October 21, 2022
Michele Payn

Increasing feed costs. Weather. Mastitis. Working with family. Sick calves. Changing contracts. Paperwork. Bad silage. Your brother-in-law. The list of stressors on a dairy farm is long. Unfortunately, most of them are also chronic. 



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