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From dry-off to peak milk: Best practices that set transition cows up for success

Small adjustments can greatly boost herd health and performance through the transition period by focusing on three phases: 60 days pre-fresh, 30 days pre-fresh and 30 days post-fresh.
December 15, 2025
Matthew Boyle

Looking at optimizing the entire transition period may seem like a daunting task at first, but it gets easier when we break it down into three key time periods: 60 days pre-fresh, 30 days pre-fresh and 30 days post-fresh.


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Linking early-lactation systems to peak milk performance

Common challenges to achieving higher peak milk and how to approach them from a systems-level perspective before and during early lactation.
October 6, 2025
Jay Giesy and Cesar Matamoros

How a dairy achieves their next increase in peak milk production is unique to their operation. We have many keys in our proverbial keychains that might unlock the door to greater peak milk, but it’s not always easy to know which key to use.


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Why ride the roller coaster?

August 10, 2020
Zach Janssen

I grew up not too far from Six Flags Great America. The American Eagle is the tallest and fastest racing wooden roller coaster in the world. Its first drop gives me the feeling most dairy farmers must have felt this spring, not exhilarating, but gut-wrenching. Mandates to dump milk and cut production combined with plummeting milk prices and uncertainty as far as the eye could see were enough to give anyone that nauseous feeling.


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Climbing the peak milk mountain

September 30, 2019
Kevin Dill
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.
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