Investing a little time up-front in creating a plan to ensure clean data can return dividends.

Promoting gastrointestinal (GI) tract health at every stage of a calf’s growth and development is important. These mitigation strategies can help prevent systemic inflammation.

Analyzing the Class I mover, the spread in the monthly advanced Class III skim milk pricing factor ($7.04 per cwt) and advanced Class IV skim milk pricing factor ($12.67 per cwt) is $5.63 per cwt, the widest since July 2020.

Digest highlights

• FMMO Forum registration deadline here
• July fluid sales down
• Dairy Defined: Plant-based beverage ‘bust’ is here
• Online organic dairy ‘origin of livestock’ rule training offered
• GDT product prices higher
• Finstad joins U.S. House Agriculture Committee
• Southeast: The Dairy Alliance launches sustainability documentary

August 2021-22 recap at a glance

What do health care and dairy have in common? Both are using data and technological advancements to provide better care. In this episode, Taliah Danzinger, VAS manager of education and training, dives into parallels between industries, how we can make better use of data and what the future of dairy data looks like.

Any forage that enters the rumen has to achieve a balance between being long enough to be “physically effective” and being digestible enough for it to be thoroughly and efficiently broken down into components usable for rumen microbes and the cow.