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Under the leadership of Ruan Transportation Management Systems, a team of industry experts customized the EPA SmartWay assessment tool to develop USDairy.com/FleetSmart, a free online resource provided by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.
Jim Mulvenna, senior vice president and general manager of the Dairy and Bulk Food Transport Division at Ruan Transportation Management Systems, explains how this tool can help dairy fleet managers measure and improve their fuel efficiency.
As consumer demand for locally grown and organic foods increases, so, too, does the interest in unpasteurized – or "raw" – milk.
Is milk that comes straight from a cow safe to drink? A new Purdue Extension publication helps separate fact from fiction.
As Congress continues to debate the quickly approaching "fiscal cliff," many farmers and ranchers across the U.S. are watching anxiously as the threat of an increased tax burden looms for many.
Tax packages passed during the George W. Bush administration, and extended in 2010, set the current estate tax exemption at $5 million per person with a tax rate of 35 percent.
If the "fiscal cliff" situation is left unsolved on Jan. 1, 2013, the estate tax exemptions will drop to only $1 million per person, with no spousal transfers allowed, and tax rates will rise to 55 percent.
A clear message emerged from the “A One Health Approach to Antimicrobial Use & Resistance: A Dialogue for a Common Purpose” symposium.
The consensus was that antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance is the responsibility of all communities – human health, animal health and environmental health – and solutions will require collaboration.
Form-A-Feed introduces the PerFourMax product line for young dairy and beef calves.
PerFourMax incorporates four areas of nutrition for young calves: milk replacers, calf feeds, heifer feeds and dairy-beef feeds.
The company states that research and field trials have shown that using the PerFourMax product line, which supplies nutrients above young calves’ requirements, results in a more productive lifetime performance.
The National Ice Cream Retailers Association held its 79th Annual Meeting and Convention Nov. 7-10 at the Embassy Suites in Greenville, South Carolina.
Several of the association's members are dairy farmers who opened ice cream stores on their farms as a way to supplement their income.
Two of these producers – Jim Mitchell of Woodside Farm Creamery in Delaware and Carl Chaney of Chaney's Dairy Barn in Kentucky – won awards in the association's annual Ice Cream Clinic Review.
A University of Wyoming herd of replacement heifers lost 25 percent of its calf crop to abortions and lost pregnancies after vaccinating pregnant heifers with modified-live vaccines (MLV) containing infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) virus, according to an article recently published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA).
A case report detailing the onset of abortions in the university-owned and well-managed herd was featured in the Pathology in Practice section of JAVMA, which spotlights diagnostic case studies.
Accelerated Genetics’ sire 014HO05411 Glenn-Ann Palermo-ET has recently passed away.
“With a very impressive group of yearling heifers and calves, Palermo was on the cusp of becoming one of the most popular bulls in the Holstein breed,” comments Gary Fassett, Accelerated Genetics’ vice president of international sales.
“The style and strength that Palermo sires is rarely found in the breed. The super udders of the first crop daughters will be much appreciated in the second crop.”
A unique two-year research project is being undertaken by Diamond V and the National Animal Disease Center (NADC) of the USDA – Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to examine the impact of antibiotics, dietary supplements, and stress on the microbial communities and host mucosal tissues of the swine intestinal ecosystem.
The goal is to identify alternatives to traditional antibiotics for use in reducing the antibiotic resistance gene reservoir and food borne pathogens in farm animals.
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