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American Dairymen November 2024
This Issue Brings You:
- Cryptosporidiosis in Calves
- Maximizing Robotics on Your Dairy
- Continuous Innovation in Calf Housing
- BouMatic MAXimizes Care in Herd Milking
- New Dairy Goat Website Offers Timely Resources
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Planning and Caring for Dairy Udder Health in the Winter
You can’t control the weather, but there are some practices you can control to ensure cow comfort and udder health are optimal through extreme winter conditions. Article and photos provided by BouMatic. Winter is a challenging time on a dairy farm. The negative temps and extreme windchills require more preparation and management. One area of […]
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Winter Care of Dairy Goats.
By Jennifer Bentley – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Dairy Field Specialist. Routine care such as feed availability, body condition score, and observation of health problems are important every day of the year for productive and healthy dairy goats. While goats are rather hardy animals, cold winter temperatures can bring another set of challenges […]
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Comfortable Stall Mats and Cow Mattresses
By Heather Smith Thomas. Keeping livestock healthy, safe, and comfortable is one of the top priorities on a dairy farm. Cattle mats are designed to keep barn floor and stall areas cleaner, warmer, and more comfortable for the cattle. If cows are kept in a free stall for resting and lying down, dairy cow mats […]
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Performance, Value, and Simplicity
Article and photos courtesy of Albert Lea Seed. We left GMO seed behind almost ten years ago because we were tired of paying for the high costs of genetically modified traits that didn’t deliver more yield. It might be time for you to do the same. Viking non-GMO seed is fully committed to providing you […]
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Featured Story
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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