Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding applauded changes to milk pricing, announced Nov. 5 by the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board (PMMB), benefitting both Pennsylvania dairy farmers and consumers. The changes may adjust prices paid to dairy farmer cooperatives upward and adjust prices paid by consumers downward.

The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has released an updated version of its Milk and Dairy Beef Drug Residue Prevention Manual – one of the key components of the National Dairy FARM Program.

Tana DennisCalf and Heifer SpecialistProvimi North AmericaMillersville, Pennsylvania

In this video, Bob Milligan, senior consultant with Dairy Strategies LLC, talks about the factors at play in team decision-making. Find out how to create the best synergy within your dairy management team.

The University of Illinois will be offering Advanced Dairy Nutrition (ANSC 423) and Milk Secretion and Mastitis (ANSC 435). Both will run 11 weeks, starting January 2016.

In September 2014, Carlson Dairy completed its new 60-by-260-foot calf facility, which is equipped with an automatic feeding system.

On Nov. 9, USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Val Dolcini announced that almost half of all dairy farms in America have made their annual elections for 2016 coverage under the Margin Protection Program, and reminded producers who have not yet enrolled that they have until Nov. 20 to select coverage.

On Nov. 6, the USDA awarded more than $4.5 million to 49 American veterinarians to help repay a portion of their veterinary school loans in return for serving in areas lacking sufficient veterinary resources.

Biofilms, ATP testing and bioluminescence. Many of us have heard these terms before, but what do they mean and how do they help you raise healthy calves?

Carlson Dairy is moving towards a fifth generation as brothers Chad and Carl Carlson, their wives, Kindra and Kellie, and parents, Curtney and Louise – along with the seven children between them – continue the legacy of dairy farming begun near Pennock, Minnesota, in 1891.