Tough economic times in the dairy industry call for refined breeding and feeding management techniques. With the ever-increasing cost of feed, dairy producers are looking for ways to minimize feed costs, particularly in rearing replacement heifers. Another struggle is finding a market for their excess bull calves.

In the beef and dairy industries, technologies such as drawing blood for pregnancy detection are gaining in popularity. With this increase in use, many adopters of this technology are looking to maximize their efficiencies by performing as many tests as they can using the same blood sample.

“How’s the stripping going?” It was a simple question really, one I answered honestly. It was going OK.

The world’s largest American-style cheese manufacturer opened a new research-and-development facility in downtown Twin Falls, Idaho, recently.