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In conjunction with the Western Section of the American Society of Animal Science (WSASAS) meeting, Leticia Camacho, Hannah Cunningham and Bryan Welly were honored as recipients of the 2014 Young Scholar Recognition Program award. Camacho was honored for her doctoral research, while Cunningham and Welly were honored for their master’s research.
This year’s Women in Dairy Conference will mark the 10th anniversary of this biannual event designed to provide inspiration and insight for Pennsylvania women engaged in the dairy industry. It will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Best Western Premier Hotel, 800 East Park Drive, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Digi-Star is pleased to announce that TMR Tracker 5.0 will be released this fall. It offers several enhanced user functions, including a new dry matter change log for each ingredient with inventory price effective dates, time tracking for loading and unloading ingredients, automated desktop reports and a daily diary to track on-farm events that might impact feed intake. The product is also fully integrated with Digi-Star's Moisture Tracker.
While it is well-known that the rumen has a complex microbiome (primarily bacteria and protozoa), the diversity of microorganisms found in the lower gut is less appreciated. However, the maintenance of a well-balanced microbiome in the lower gut may be as important to animal health and feed utilization as is the maintenance of a stable rumen microflora.
An undercover video taken by activists at a New Mexico dairy has triggered a New Mexico Livestock Board investigation into practices there, after the farm shut down operations in September, according to a CBS News report.
From our fun ice cream promotion to putting booth visitors on the cover of Progressive Dairyman magazine (virtually, anyway), we were busy at World Dairy Expo 2014. So were hundreds of other vendors and attendees. Here's a list of all of our coverage of the 2014 World Dairy Expo.
With an overall message encouraging farmers to think “outside the (silage) bag,” Silvia Abel-Caines, DVM, Ph.D., staff ruminant nutritionist for Organic Valley, said feeding dairy cows sprout fodder can make sense nutritionally and economically in some situations.
At the 65th annual meeting of the National Dairy Shrine, Freed Hendricks, Sunshower Acres, Bucyrus, Ohio, was elected president of the organization. Meanwhile, David Pierson, Sapa Ska Holsteins of Lake City, Minnesota, was chosen as president-elect.
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