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Getting Dairy Calves Off to a Good Start — The SIP Principle with Colostrum

Getting Dairy Calves Off to a Good Start — The SIP Principle with Colostrum By Maurice L. Eastridge - Department of Animal Sciences - The Ohio State UniversityAs soon as the dairy calf exits the uterus of the cow, the maternal nutrition and protection from disease by blood transfer of nutrients and...

Smart Calf System – Innovative technology for more animal welfare

Smart Calf System – Innovative technology for more animal welfare Creating appropriate housing conditions, controlling their effects, documenting them and making them understandable to the farmers are important tasks in the future management of livestock herds. This also refers to a good calf...

Gene-editing: a promising future in dairy

Gene-editing: a promising future in dairy By Jaclyn Krymowski for American DairymenOf all the exciting recent genetic innovations, among the most anticipated is the use of gene editing. This technology can bring desired novel traits to herds and breeds much faster than using generations of selective...

The real cost of outdated raw milk sampling techniques

The real cost of outdated raw milk sampling techniques As early as 1933 the Milk Industry Foundation’s Laboratory Manual for Methods of Analysis of Milk and Its Products stressed the challenges of collecting accurate samples due to inconsistent agitation. The publication went so far as to break...

8 Reasons to Install Livestock Scales in Your Farm

8 Reasons to Install Livestock Scales in Your Farm By Kevin HillFarm management consists of several critical tasks and weighing animals accurately is one of them. It is imperative that you stay up-to-date with all the details pertaining to individual animals. To achieve this, you must implement livestock...

Industry News

New research confirms AccuMast® is the most accurate on-farm mastitis diagnostic kit Article provided by AccuMast®A University of Illinois research study by Ferreira et al. (2018)* evaluated four commercial on-farm culture methods used to identify clinical mastitis-associated pathogens. Results...