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Brothers and business partners Rob and Adrian Diepersloot were the most recent dairy producer guests on the Real Producer Exchange. Read more about their multiple operations in California and Colorado and their consumer-packaged goods company, WonderCow.
A sweaty crew of workers resurfaced our parking lot recently. The freshly painted lines on hot blacktop not only look amazing, but the early results indicate the renovation is going to change behavior.
A new webinar series from Progressive Dairy debuted this summer, and the manager of a 3,000-cow dairy in Bailey, Michigan, was the featured guest for the first episode. Dairyman Clare Alderink talked about success with new technology as well as some technology failures during his time on the Real Producer Exchange.
When Sam Stephens walks onto a mining site this summer as a certified welder, he'll carry more than just his gear – he'll represent the kind of success New Plymouth High School's new $2.3 million ag building was built to create.
An automated footbath that could already fill, clean out and refill on its own now has a new capability – computer vision. Hoofcount’s footbath counts cow passes through the bath, dumps solution after a designated number of cows have used it, sprays out the bath and refills the bath with solution automatically.
A rumen-protected coating on a feed product that’s been fed for 15 years to chickens and pigs shows promise to move stubbornly intractable feed efficiency rates in dairy cows.
A new back-of-the-barn innovation sorts cows more quietly and reliably in all dairy environments. The Sort my Cow Sort Gate from CowManager runs on electromagnets and springs instead of compressors and pneumatics, making less noise during operation and working consistently, even during extreme weather.
A new feed pad design keeps leachate and rain runoff separate, keeping them out of dairy lagoons. The patented system from Dairy Nutrient Reclamation saves dairy producers money from not having to haul the extra water once mixed with manure.
