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American Dairymen May 2025
This Issue Brings You:
- Fly Control In Dairy Operations
- Robotics Can Save Labor & Enhance Dairy Cow Management
- Optimizing Water Systems for Herd Health & Efficiency
- More Than a Tin Can: Forage Systems for Goats
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Technical Herd Management in the Modern Day
By Jaclyn Krymowski. For quite some time now, dairy herd management has been digitalized either partially or fully on most farms. But just like our smartphones, software and other forms of recordkeeping, digitalization continues to evolve. Simple updates, newer versions and straight up new competition in the marketplace keep us on our toes. The more […]
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Regenerative Agriculture on a Dairy Farm
By Heather Smith Thomas. Paul and Erin Kernaleguen are dairy farmers and soil consultants near Birch Hills, Saskatchewan, committed to regenerative practices in growing forage for their cattle. They farm with Paul’s Parents, Jos and Brenda. “We were a very conventional dairy operation until 2012 when we started looking at doing some things differently because […]
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Being In Control
By Maura Keller. Fly control has long been a point of contention for dairy farmers. Whether you manage 50 head of dairy cows in a smaller farm, or 500 head in a larger operation, one thing’s for sure: Fly control is a top concern requiring diligence and understanding of the best products and procedures required […]
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Best Practices for Dealing with Downed Cows
By Jaclyn Krymowski. Handling a sick cow is challenging. Handling a down cow takes the task to another level. Because this is a situation that can happen quickly and anywhere , even a well-conceived down-cow protocol can make a response challenging. Though each scenario needs to be evaluated at the moment,having a general procedure in […]
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Regenerative Agriculture on a Dairy Farm
Paul and Erin Kernaleguen are dairy farmers and soil consultants near Birch Hills, Saskatchewan, committed to regenerative practices in growing forage for their cattle. They farm with Paul’s Parents, Jos and Brenda.
“We were a very conventional dairy operation until 2012 when we started looking at doing some things differently because our weather was super-wet for a couple years. Our average annual precipitation is about 12 inches of moisture, but we’d had two years in a row with about 40 to 50 inches, which made farming extremely difficult!” says Paul.
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