Progressive Dairy

[Podcast] DEKALB Corn: What Does it Mean to be Silage Proven?

August 7, 2025

Join Jason Mast, Casey Mikus and Josh Tooley as they recap the 2025 growing season, chat all things harvest and dive into the DEKALB Silage breeding process. Learn how DEKALB breeds genetics to be Silage Proven with high quality and tonnage potential.

August 7, 2025 Progressive Dairy digital magazine

August 7, 2025

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Selecting for greater parlor efficiency is possible

CDCB announces the release of a new trait for Holsteins – milking speed. This trait will help producers manage animals with similar milking speed times to keep parlors efficient.

August 7, 2025

Kristen Parker Gaddis

Dairy farmers now have a more powerful, long-term tool to affect the milking time of their herds with a new trait developed by the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB): milking speed, which became available for Holsteins in the August triannual genetic evaluations.

Changing the game on teaching strategies for effective cattle handling

August 7, 2025

Jennifer Van Os

Interacting directly with cows is a necessary part of dairy farming but leads to the risk of human injuries, which can be severe or even fatal. When cows are handled inappropriately, this decreases both their welfare and milk production and can also hurt public perception of dairy farming.

Managing livestock mortalities on the farm

August 7, 2025

Jean Bonhotal, Jason Oliver, and Kirsten Workman

All livestock managers must also have a plan to manage deadstock. In most states, carcasses must be disposed of within 48 to 72 hours, and a good plan is essential to ensure timely management.

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What can camera technology and artificial intelligence bring to dairies in 2025?

August 7, 2025

Miel Hostens

Camera technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are currently being hyped to the dairy industry. Companies selling these technologies promise game-changing outcomes for producers who use them. The reality, though, is more of a mixed bag.

Budgeting and proposing operational changes to or with senior management

August 7, 2025

Jason Karszes

On more and more dairy farms every year, employees play integral roles in day-to-day operations, decision making, and problem solving. In these roles, ideas for changes to operations and for capital investments are generated.

Proposing change

August 7, 2025

Vincenzo Buonomo

Proposing change and getting buy-in from your team is key. Have you ever encountered resistance to change?

Lean six sigma

August 7, 2025

Vincenzo Buonomo

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is the result of merging two continuous improvement approaches and has become a significant force within organizations in all sectors to optimize processes and drive out waste.

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Operations Managers Conference: Empowering managers on dairy farms

August 7, 2025

Julie Berry

Most leaders agree that people are the greatest asset of a business. But they can also present the greatest challenges.