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The French have more style than we do.
I say that in concession, the grievance not coming from American nationalism nor any bad experience as much as regret that I will never have the advantage of being French.
What is it about a dairy farm that no matter how much you plan ahead, everything breaks at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve? I’ve got 15 5-gallon buckets of spare parts, extra motors, a good hammer and a brand new roll of airplane duct tape but don’t have the one dang piece I need to get the cows milked. Hunker down, my friend.
The most efficient rate of growth a calf experiences is in the first month of life. Strong growth and good calf health is linked to improved performance of heifers with a trend toward earlier first breeding and increased milk yields.
The discussion about the importance of proper prepartum dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) levels often centers around cow health, and rightly so.
It’s been repeatedly shown that lowering ration DCAD prior to calving helps stave off serious health challenges, including milk fever (clinical and subclinical), reduces incidence of displaced abomasum and retained placenta, and boosts immune function.
Idaho dairy producers were told to get out in front of the trends, and the latest trend is a return to traditional shopping … with a digital twist. A record number of Idaho dairy producers heard the message and turned out for their annual meeting in Boise Nov. 12-13.
At the meeting speaker, Phil Lempert, known as the “Supermarket Guru,” told producers to think about how they communicate with consumers. He suggested doing everything from product demonstrations in grocery stores to more online storytelling.
Recently, dairy farmers and industry partners gathered in Boise, Idaho, for the United Dairymen of Idaho’s annual meeting. Several awards were given out to honor dairy farmers who have achieved excellence in their industry.
The often-written-about theme of family farm transfer is our topic today. In the timespan of one week, I visited two dairy farms at two very different places.A young dairy farm family has just taken over the daily operations of a small Holstein dairy. Small refers to herd size: about 60 cows.
Church & Dwight Co. Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Varied Industries Corporation (Vi-COR), a manufacturer and seller of feed ingredients for dairy cows, beef cattle, poultry and other livestock, located in Mason City, Iowa.
November has gone again and with it a new flood of facial hair gracing dairymen’s faces across the country. Movember, an international men’s health initiative, encourages men to grow a moustache during the month of November to draw attention to and raise research money for men’s health issues, including testicular and prostate cancer as well as mental health issues.
Dairyman Will Gilmer of Gilmer Dairy in Sulligent, Alabama, recently finished a two-year term as a Face of Farming and Ranching. Gilmer, best known for his quirky tractor-seat shanties as seen on YouTube, was one of the first-ever representatives selected by the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) for its “Faces” program.
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