From the top of the Hopkins Farm Creamery’s 80-foot tall silo, one can see the Lewes Beach coastline. Five miles from the beach and a 10-minute drive by car, tourists and beachgoers stop at the popular ice cream shop after a hot day in the sand and swim on the coast.

Just over one year ago, an early morning drive down the road to check his heifers left a North Carolina dairyman with a gunshot wound to the neck. Now, Zach Myers shares his miraculous story of survival and recovery with Progressive Dairyman.

The FDA recently released its nutrition facts side panel for all packaged foods and beverages. A new requirement of the redesigned panel is the labeling of “added sugars” in both grams and as a percent of suggested daily value intake. Although it is still too early to tell exactly how the added sugar label on sweetened dairy products will be perceived by consumers, industry leaders are concerned consumers will only focus on the added sugar component and not on the nutrient-rich value of dairy foods.

In the Dairy Cattle Biology and Management Lab at Cornell University, rumination and activity monitors were implemented by Matias Stangaferro, DVM, M.S. and Ph.D. student, and Julio Giordano, DVM, M.S., Ph.D., to study and identify health disorders in dairy cows.