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As CEO of the first certified organic dairy and creamery in the western U.S., Albert Straus is always looking for ways to be more sustainable and utilize all of the resources around him.
Almost 16 years ago, Dave Eisentraut of Eisentraut Ag Services began custom-hauling manure.
In the first year, he handled four million gallons of manure and now moves 200 million gallons on an annual basis.
During June Dairy Month, ambassadors are called upon to aid in the promotion of one of our country’s prominent agriculture industries. Progressive Dairyman caught up with some of Wisconsin’s most well-known dairy ambassadors at Cows on the Concourse, June 7. This event serves as a kick-off to June Dairy Month, held the first Saturday of June on the state’s Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin.
Since the invention of the automatic milking machine, dairy producers have been milking in the dark.
Dark liners and stainless steel shells have masked one of the most critical steps of milking – when the milk stream leaves the cow’s teat.
As the first shovels of dirt were turned at the groundbreaking ceremony for the New Holland Pavilions at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin, the countdown also began.
From that moment on April 11, there are 158 days for construction crews to complete the new 290,000-square-foot pavilions by mid-September, just in time for World Dairy Expo, Sept. 30 through Oct. 4.
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about speaking up for agriculture, and it most likely won’t be my last. As we continue to see more and more people distancing themselves from farming and at the same time taking a keen interest in how their food is grown and raised, the need for people to speak up about modern-day agriculture continues to grow.
The second annual Global Dairy Summit was held Feb. 6 at the Canadian Dairy XPO in Stratford, Ontario. Six producers gathered from Canada, the U.S., Israel, The Netherlands and China to enlighten others to what dairying is like around the world.
A good ration is one that puts the health of the cow above all else. That is the philosophy that has guided Dave Crossan through the past decade of nutrition work.
“If you think about cow health first, everything else follows,” Crossan says.
