“To share ideas, solutions, resources and experiences that help dairy producers succeed” is the mission the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) was founded on.

“This summit offers a vision and a hope for a more vibrant dairy industry,” announced Dina Zug, 2009 Dairy Summit chairperson at the opening session on Feb. 11 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Milk cows experience high levels of stress at the time of calving and the weeks that follow. More often than not this extra stress manifests itself as metabolic problems such as milk fever, mastitis, retained placenta, ketosis, displaced abomasum or laminitis.

DairyComp 305 (DC305) is an important management tool for producers to collect herd data for use in monitoring performance.

After 30 years of working in the dairy industry, I’ve learned that you’ve got to be smart and efficient in the fresh pen. That almost sounds like Dick Vitale describing a college basketball team’s offense during a game on ESPN.

Every dairy farmer, nutritionist and veterinarian is familiar with the drop in feed intake experienced by almost all cows before calving. Numerous attempts have been made to prevent or reduce the negative effects of that drop in feed intake, but transition cow nutrition and management is still an issue on many farms.

With the new year, we tend to strive for positive change and set goals to help us achieve this change. This idea can be applied to a transition cow program.

This year’s symposium on bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) hosted almost 200 cattle producers, researchers and practicing technical service and university extension veterinarians.

The dairy industry in south Florida has seen its share of changes in the last 70 years, and producer Red Larson has witnessed all of them from his start as a hand milker to the large dairy operations he manages today.

There is a movement afoot in America to discredit the Founding Fathers and to spread the pernicious lie that this nation was not founded on Christian principles.