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Not all manure is conveyed equally, so to speak, because not all manure is subjected to the same environmental conditions after being “deposited” on the alley floor. One of those conditions is bedding, especially where sand bedding is concerned.
Over the last few decades, ration balancing tools and product development technologies have improved exponentially. We also have a greater understanding of the cow’s biology and dietary needs.
HOW WE MET: Laura and I actually haven’t met in person, but we’ve been exchanging emails for about three months.
I volunteered to help with alumni communications and fundraising for Alpha Zeta Fraternity, a co-ed, professional agricultural group that I was involved in during my time at Penn State University.
With more than a decade of marketing/communications experience, Laura seemed like someone who could give an expert’s opinion on how the dairy industry is performing in the area of public relations.
It wasn’t what I expected him to say.
About 16 years ago, I was working for a community newspaper and interviewing a couple that had been married for 75 years. I can no longer remember their names, but they changed the way I approached life on a family-owned dairy farm.
We are in full swing of an election year. The networks buzz with opinions, half-truths and rumors. Informed and uninformed reporters weave their opinions, first-hand experience of colleagues and snippets of gossip into their angle and call it the truth.
Utility type vehicles are prominent pieces of equipment utilized in a variety of settings, including on dairies. The hauling features offered by UTVs have increased their popularity, availability and use in agricultural work-related tasks.
To be clear, there is also a category of vehicles related to UTVs, with similar features and appearance, which is designed primarily for recreational use.
These are known as recreational off-highway vehicles (ROVs). Both UTVs and ROVs have also been referred to as “side-by-side” vehicles.
When my cousin Jade was born with pretty red locks to brunette parents, the first question asked was regarding the color of the milkman’s hair. It’s not an uncommon joke by any means, nor is it exclusive to farmers.
Reporting to you from Yei, Central Equatoria state, South Sudan.…
Her name is Rita Harriet Brown. She is headmistress and lead teacher at the Yei Girls Boarding Secondary School. This is the story of the school, and the 300 young women living, learning and coming of age in Central Equatoria state.
Labor Department listens, removes proposed child labor rule
Since the U.S. Department of Labor released a proposed rule to update child labor regulations in agriculture-related jobs last September, the agriculture industry stepped forward to make its position heard.
In our own poll, Progressive Dairyman readers appeared to side with the vocal majority, with 46.8 percent stating a child as young as 8 or 9 should be allowed to work on a dairy farm.
Although managing dairy cows is the basic foundation of any dairy operation, the consistent management of cows and the people working with them is the principal factor to the success of Blue Mound Dairy near Luverne, Minnesota.
Rick Van Santen and his wife, Carrie, own and operate the 1,000-cow dairy with the help of their four sons. Brad, the eldest of them and the dairy’s herd manager, explains that his father’s parents emigrated from Holland and started a farm in Iowa, which was relocated to its current location in Luverne in 1969.
In the mid-’90s, Brad’s father purchased the farm from his grandfather and began expanding the operation.
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