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A new app developed through the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Veterinary Medicine is making it easier than ever to track reproductive herd health.
Producers are facing more and more difficult conversations about GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, and their place in the industry and in the marketplace. This year at the World Ag Expo, Progressive Dairyman hosted a seminar featuring presenter Alison Van Eenennaam, Ph.D., of the University of California – Davis, who came to help attendees understand more about GMOs, some of the common misconceptions and how to convey important information to opponents, fellow producers and consumers.
Ag tech startup Summer Technologies’ company mission is “to empower sustainable ranchers to make an industry-transforming impact through technology.” The company’s soon-to-be-released app, Pasture Map, promises to do just that.
Once a year the ag world descends on Tulare, California, for the World Ag Expo. The event brings new technology, information and tri-tip sandwiches to the estimated 100,000 attendees.
The Milk Processor Education Program checkoff and other national dairy organizations staged a social media takeover on Jan. 27 to “take back the conversation about milk.”
The campaign was designed to help combat the wave of confusing and misleading information regarding the value and safety of dairy products that has permeated the social media world, which organizers say has contributed to declining milk sales.
Like many small family farms, Meeks Farms and Sons near Evans Mills, New York, is fighting feed prices, larger well-backed competitors, weather and other forces intent on sinking the three-generation farm. The family found reinforcements at the New York Farm Viability Institute.
Molecat
Booth 1524, Pavilion A
Moles and gophers are a common agricultural menace. This year the World Ag Expo will feature a product aimed at eliminating these burrowing pests.
PolyExcel
Booth: 3928-3929, Building C
Silage covering can take up a major part of a dairy farmer’s forage preservation time. PolyExcel has introduced a product to help save some of that time and possibly more ensiled feed through their new Polydress 2-in-1 O2 Barrier. The product was released last spring and has been named a top product at this year’s World Ag Expo.
November has gone again and with it a new flood of facial hair gracing dairymen’s faces across the country. Movember, an international men’s health initiative, encourages men to grow a moustache during the month of November to draw attention to and raise research money for men’s health issues, including testicular and prostate cancer as well as mental health issues.
