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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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Dairy Labor: A Crucial Issue for Many Dairies
By Heather Smith Thomas. Good employees are often hard to find and keep, and this is a huge problem for agriculture today, especially in the dairy industry; it is difficult to attract and keep dependable workers. Small family-operated dairies often get by with one or two extra people, but larger dairies depend on many good […]
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SDSU student Grace Sargent receives Central Plains Dairy Foundation scholarship
Article and photo courtesy of Central Plains Dairy Foundation. New Prague, MN (March 29, 2024) – The Central Plains Dairy Foundation (CPDF) awarded its $500 Tonneson Scholarship to Grace Sargent from Pierre, S.D., who is a sophomore studying agricultural communications and agricultural leadership at South Dakota State University (SDSU). Annually, this scholarship goes to a student […]
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Remove the guesswork from choosing the best fly control for cattle
Use these tips to sift through fly control options for cattle on pasture. Article courtesy of Purina Animal Nutrition LLC Arden Hills, Minn. [March 27, 2024] – Pesky horn flies can become prolific during the grazing season. However, there are control tactics that can help keep horn fly populations under wraps. When uncontrolled, horn flies […]
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Merck Animal Health Introduces SENSEHUB® Dairy Youngstock
logy provides 24/7 monitoring for better and more labor-efficient calf management. Article courtesy of Merck Animal Health. RAHWAY, N.J., April 4, 2024 – Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside of the United States and Canada, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA (NYSE:MRK), today announced the introduction of SENSEHUB® Dairy […]
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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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