Dealing with the summer heat and humidity and the effects on cow health and milk production is one of the most significant management challenges faced by dairy farmers each year. Summertime heat can be a tough gig for dairy cows.
Nutritional requirements increase significantly and play a pivotal role in the cow’s energy status and health at the time of birth and in the early weeks of lactation when milk production is reaching its peak.
Trying to grow crops without knowing the soil pH or fertility levels of each crop field is like driving a car with a broken speedometer: Sooner or later you’re going to get in trouble.
Early in the year, economists predicted that milk prices would rise nearly $2.00 per cwt during the year, but oversupply, increased production and “baggage” from the previous two years tempered excitement over increased prices. Halfway into 2017, the outlook remains the same.
It’s probably too late to do anything about any problems you may find with your forage, but knowing what happened – and why – is essential in trying to prevent the same things from happening again.
Farmers in the Northeast are raising camels for their milk. What are some things to consider with this type of livestock? Raising and managing camels in this area of the U.S. is more realistic than one would think.
Here’s how farmers plow forward to improve their dairy business.
Selecting animals for breeding, no matter how it’s done, has lasting impacts on herd performance.
What makes a rumen healthy are the billions of microbes – bacteria, protozoa, fungi and yeasts – whose job it is to ferment the feedstuffs that a cow consumes in her diet. Collectively, we call them “bugs.”
Somewhere on social media, I watched a video of a teenager who told a story of how he was once riddled with acne and blotched …
