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Emma Lammers, 21, of Hartington, Nebraska, was crowned 2012 Nebraska Dairy Princess during the annual Nebraska Dairy Convention banquet.
Lammers is the daughter of Joe and Kathy Lammers of Lammers Enterprise Dairy. She is a junior studying agricultural education at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Her title includes a $750 scholarship award.
Lisa Temme, 20, daughter of Doug and Mary Temme of Wayne, Nebraska, was named first runner-up. She is a sophomore in textile science at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and received a $250 scholarship.
Contestants are judged on their communication skills, interest in dairy promotion and dairy knowledge.
The Nebraska Dairy Princess program is sponsored by the state’s dairy farmers through Midwest Dairy Association’s Nebraska Division.
Iowa’s legislators have put a proposal to regulate stray voltage on hold – at least for the time being.
According to an article in the Des Moines Register, the legislation would have set “science-based” standards for addressing stray voltage, which happens when electric currents build up in the ground and can lead to reproductive and other health problems in dairy cattle.
While the bills made it through committees on both sides of the Statehouse, the proposals have stalled before making it to the floor in either the House or Senate. Dairy lobbyists claim the bills would make it nearly impossible to seek payment for damages caused by the stray voltage.
On March 5, Todd Bilby, associate professor and extension dairy specialist with Texas AgriLife Research and Extension, presented a webinar on a topic that affects dairy cattle across the country during the summer – heat stress.
The webinar titled “Strategies to Improve Reproduction During Heat Stress in Dairy Cattle” was the first in a series of four webinars relating to heat stress made possible by an Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grant from the USDA.
Dairy farmers received 30 percent of the retail value of dairy products sold in supermarkets in 2010 - up from 24 percent in 2009 - according to recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.
The Food Dollar Series, a resource of the USDA’s Economic Research Service, offers useful data about annual expenditures by U.S. consumers on domestically produced food.
The annually updated data series sheds light on different aspects of the food supply chain and who receives the consumer’s food dollar.
The dairy industry in a five-state region – Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas – has seen a tremendous growth in the past decade, a growth that provides both concerns and opportunities, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialists.
Joining other experts at the High Plains Dairy Conference held recently in Amarillo, Dr. Ellen Jordan, a Texas AgriLife Extension Service dairy specialist, said the five-state area is home to about 450,000 cows, which provide approximately $4.3 billion in annual economic impact.
New research from R&D LifeSciences, LLC, reveals that substantial positive production trends can be generated in lactating dairy cattle when the natural, non-drug feed additive Lactomace is included in cow rations.
Lactomace contains enzymes and fermentation products of Aspergillus oryzae, Trichoderma viride, and Bacillus subtilis that help enhance the digestibility and utilization of feed components by dairy cattle, resulting in improved performance.
A 120-day, three-site research study conducted in the southwest U.S. involved 7,000 lactating Holstein cows managed under commercial dairy production conditions.
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