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While natural ventilation and negative pressure mechanical ventilation are the most widely used systems for nursery and growing calf barns, both have problems that can be minimized with supplemental positive pressure tube systems. In this workshop, Dr. Ken Nordlund of the Food Animal Production Medicine Section at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Veterinary Medicine will present on designing systems to deliver appropriate volumes of fresh air to calves without creating drafts. Problems with fluttering tubes, uneven distribution of air along the tube, and failure to inflate will be reviewed, along with practical ideas for tube location and construction materials. This training aims to equip consultants with the ability to improve air quality in calf barns through improved ventilation and other common management and building design problems that contribute to poor air hygiene and increased risk for calf pneumonia.
Happy Birthday, Accelerated Genetics! That's right, Accelerated Genetics is 70 years young and going strong! Since March of this year Accelerated Genetics has been celebrating its birthday through various means.
The theme for this momentus achievement is “Celebrating 70 Years of Innovation.”
During a wet lab at PDPW’s Calf Care workshop this week in Arlington, Wisconsin, Dr. Sheila McGuirk from the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine demonstrated a variety of ways to provide proper care to young calves.
Stillborn calf rates can be as high as 12 to 18 percent on dairy farms. One way to avoid early calf death is to know the signs to watch for just after birth and be able to act in a timely manner.
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) hailed the full and complete lifting of retaliatory tariffs by Mexico in the cross-border trucking dispute.
This action came after the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) implemented a pilot program to allow a selected number of Mexican carriers to operate on the U.S. side of the border under strict safety standards.
The state of Maryland is looking to buy electricity generated from animal waste.
Poultry litter or livestock manure are the types of waste the state is hoping will be used in the Clean Bay Power project.
Cattle brought from Minnesota to Wisconsin no longer have to be tested for bovine tuberculosis.
The requirement for TB testing dates back to 2005, when state animal-health authorities discovered an infected beef herd in northwestern Minnesota.
The Humane Society of the United States and the Nebraska Farmers Union have announced a partnership on farm-animal issues that is drawing criticism from some farm groups.
New York farmers who lost equipment or other infrastructure to this year's back-to-back tropical storms may be able to tap a $5 million fund set up by the state.
The program will be run by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to help farmers recover from Irene and Lee.
Colombia's president calls a free trade pact finally approved by the U.S. Congress a commercial milestone that will build export muscle, but many of the country's small farmers fear for their livelihoods.
Some worry that imports of less expensive, subsidized U.S. goods could drive them out of business. Small farmers help make Colombia self-sufficient in food production but tend to earn very little.
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