The program area launched Version 2 in July 2024, updating the evaluation tool used to voluntarily assess and encourage adoption of HR and safety best practices on-farm. In Version 2, the evaluation ...

The dairy industry experiences at least $10.7 million in losses per year due to known recessives in the dairy cattle population. Looking at inbreeding in the population of Holstein cattle was the ...

Practical steps for everyday biosecurity You don’t need a lab coat to take action on biosecurity. Here are a few practical steps every dairy can implement: Tighten feed sourcing. Know where your feed ...

Barb Petersen, D.V.M., of Sunrise Veterinary Service PLLC, will present, “Start smart: Maternity pen and newborn calf care tips.” The goal of this webinar is to share perspectives, ideas farms have ...

If we assume: SNAP recipients spend a similar proportion of their food dollars on dairy as non-SNAP households, if SNAP benefits are cut, consumers will reduce spending equally across all the food ...

This year marks a major milestone for the National Milk Producers Federation’s (NMPF) National Young Cooperators (YC) Program as it celebrates its 75th anniversary. Young dairy farmer leaders from ...

Roughly two months into the 2025 growing season and fresh off a few days of working with colleagues and dairy producers in western New York, Mother Nature has already forced in-season adjustments for ...

DOC was a 7HO12198 KINGBOY son from WCD-ZBW Mack Daddy (VG-88-VG-MS) and bred by Woodcrest Dairy LLC in Lisbon, New York. His dam garnered impressive milk records and was a barn-favorite of the ...

“Industry leaders set a goal in 2021 to have 70 million acres of cropland under 4R management by 2030,” said TFI president and CEO Corey Rosenbusch. “Today’s update shows that we are well on our way ...

In a Virginia Tech Dairy Pipeline newsletter, graduate student Prashant Ghimire and extension scientist Gonzalo Ferreira discussed the importance of copper, an essential micromineral, in dairy cattle ...

The rapid genetic progress we have made as a dairy industry in the short time since the introduction of sexed semen and genomic evaluations has been covered in depth in recent articles. Additionally, ...

On our skid loader we have a hydraulic quick attach, and it kept getting pinned between the loader, the grapples, and the spears. I found a solution by making a plate with three holes that match the ...