It’s one of those things that producers sometimes take for granted. After completing daily maintenance and equipment checks before heading to the field, producers just expect tires will keep on turning – all day, the next day and for many days and years to come. And because tire failures happen so seldom, when it does occur, especially in the field and away from the shop, the importance of having a tire dealer you can rely on to help keep the wheels turning is essential.

There is a lot of material to move around on a dairy farm, from feed coming in at harvest to feed and bedding delivered to the end user (the cows) to the removal and spreading of manure – and it all needs wheels under it to move. As the size of a “normal” dairy has increased, more and more dairies need their own fleet of farm trucks.

Cow-calf separation is embedded into the rhythm of life on most dairy farms, so much so that many people in the industry may not have thought much about why it’s done, or more pointedly, questioned whether it should be done. But with rising concern over the animal management practices in the dairy industry, we suggest that the dairy industry would benefit by engaging with consumers about this and other contentious practices.