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With strong dairy margins in 2014, U.S. milk production continues to increase, with 16.5 billion pounds produced in November, according to the USDA’s most recent data. This represents a 3.4 percent increase over the prior year.
On Jan. 29, JBS USA, a processor of fresh and value-added beef products, announced a $75 million expansion project at its Hyrum, Utah, beef processing complex. The project includes a new state-of-the-art fabrication building, a new cutting-edge ground beef facility and a new distribution center. The complete project will allow for the increase of production levels by more than 400 head per day, improve plant efficiencies and expand the business's offerings of high-quality beef and ground beef products for customers.
Research has shown that ketosis affects 40 to 60 percent of dairy cows, with an average cost of $289 per case. Now, dairy producers have a new management tool available to estimate herd-level ketosis prevalence using their monthly DHI test-day milk samples.
“I’m the cow guy here,” says dairy producer Steve Bollant, who runs a 695-cow dairy and grows 1,800 acres of crops together with his brother near Stitzer, Wisconsin. “I am the one who always walked all of the pens eight to 10 times a day, looking for heats and checking the cows. Physically, I was getting so I couldn’t do it anymore.”
Zoetis has announced the launch of Draxxin 25 (tulathromycin injection) Injectable Solution, a lower concentration of Draxxin (tulathromycin) Injectable Solution, to treat bovine respiratory disease (BRD) in suckling, dairy and veal calves.
Q. Why is this a top resource article?
"Fresh cow diseases are a constant struggle and financial drain on a dairy. Preventing disease through proper management, and knowing how to correctly treat it, are powerful tools for a producer."
—Dr. Vicky Lauer, Professional Services Veterinarian, Animart LLC
If it’s not one thing, it’s another; and when it comes to fresh cow illnesses, it is likely to be a combination.
Watch the recap of the 2015 PDPW Managers Academy held in Charlotte, North Carolina, Jan. 13-15, 2015. Attendees received training on hiring, building and being better managers of their teams.
“In an instant, our 100-plus-year-old family farm became part of the re-branding of agriculture by activist groups. We lost our milk market and our reputation was tarnished.” —Gary Conklin, Conklin Dairy Cattle Sales LLC. In May of 2010, a video from his farm depicting abuse was released by Mercy for Animals.
Preparing for emergencies and managing crises was a main focus of the Dairy Strong conference, Jan. 13-15, in Madison, Wisconsin, facilitated by the Dairy Business Association of Wisconsin and its partners. I’m a member of the organization, but this was my first time attending one of their conferences.
The Milk Processor Education Program checkoff and other national dairy organizations staged a social media takeover on Jan. 27 to “take back the conversation about milk.”
The campaign was designed to help combat the wave of confusing and misleading information regarding the value and safety of dairy products that has permeated the social media world, which organizers say has contributed to declining milk sales.
Western United Dairymen (WUD) along with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Audubon California announced an innovative new conservation project to boost habitat and outreach work for the threatened tricolored blackbird of California.
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