Imagine this: Your employees, advisors and partners all in the same room, productively discussing issues and finding ways to improve farm profitability.

Climbing a mountain is no easy task. It takes preparation, planning and hard work to reach the summit. And there’s added value in the rewarding trip back down.

Fresh and peak milk production drive your lactating herd’s performance. Ensuring you have the nutrients available to support these stages of lactation is key to making your feeding program efficient and improving your income over feed cost (IOFC).

Sometimes the smallest changes can make a big impact. The same is true for heat stress management for your herd.

Could you use milk in your bulk tank? New research shows that feeding calves and heifers a full potential nutrition program through the first six months of life could lead to animals that produce as much as 6,588 more pounds of milk in their first three lactations.

Take a moment to think about your last cow to calve. Was it smooth sailing or were there complications? If a complication arose, has this issue occurred before?

The search for efficiency is a journey. As margins tighten, many dairy farmers are taking a magnifying glass to their herds to find cost-saving opportunities.

Raising a calf to become a high-producing cow is critical to a herd’s future. To help dairy producers in their quest to develop more productive animals, the last decade of industry and university research has explored the connection between calf nutrition and lactation performance.