Junior, University of Georgia Genesis Intern for Genex Shawano, Wisconsin

On Aug. 8, Agropur, Canada’s largest dairy cooperative, announced that it had completed the transaction to acquire the dairy processing assets of Davisco Foods International, a U.S.-based cheese and dairy ingredients company.

Dairy producers know that animal health is a critical component of their herd’s productivity and profitability. At the herd level, disease problems must be assessed not only for their severity in affected animals, but also for frequency of occurrence, costs of treatment, influence on production, relationship to culling and influence on death losses.

After sending the H.R. 5021 back and forth between the Senate and House, the chambers came to agreement on funding the Highway Trust Fund through May 2015.

Graduate from The Ohio State University – Agricultural Technical Institute Livestock Technician Intern at Select Sires Plain City, Ohio

Junior, University of Wisconsin – Platteville Marketing Communications Intern at Accelerated Genetics Baraboo, Wisconsin

Graduated Senior from Berry College Summer Intern at Center for Dairy Excellence Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Old-fashioned fly swatters may be the most foolproof housefly killer, but for dairy farms, insecticides are the practical choice. Flies spread disease and a host of pathogens that cost farms hundreds of millions of dollars in annual losses.