I wrote of our Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP) Course a few articles ago. The facilitated portion of the course is now done. In this article, I comment on the course and what we accomplished.

Dairy cow rations are based on the amount of dry matter, the resulting feed when water is removed, that can be fed to cows to maintain health and achieve high production.

This past month I visited Great Britain, specifically Scotland and England, for the first time.

More than 110 representatives from 19 different countries accepted an invitation from Lallemand Animal Nutrition to attend the company’s nutrition symposium and dairy tours in Edinburgh, Scotland, in June.

Pastures and grass silage packs are the mainstays on David Brewster’s Scottish dairy.

The 12th annual Distillers Grains Symposium, hosted by the Distillers Grains Technology Council, was held May 21-22, 2008, in Kansas City, Missouri.

For the past 15 years, the U.S. has had a strategy of immigration control that overwhelmingly emphasizes border enforcement, coupled with extremely weak worksite enforcement in the absence of efforts to increase legal-entry opportunities, especially for low-skilled workers, the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program (MMFRP) at the UC – San Diego stated during a recent press conference.

Most dairy farmers are facing an unfavorable milk-to-feed cost index, and some are looking for an alternative to using rBST.

We want it all when it comes to the milking parlor — high throughput, low costs, high-quality milk and herd health.

What will 2016 look like for the dairy business?