New tool for udder health management: Spray gains acceptance by large dairy herd managers. WILLIAMSBURG, Ontario – Dairy producers now have a new tool for the udder health management toolbox with Udder Comfort SprayableTM. This unique, patent-pending, natural formula is specially designed for large herds because it gives all of the benefits of the lotion with the added convenience and efficiency of a spray.
Mastitis is the single most costly disease on the dairy farm, with estimated losses of more than $2 billion for the U.S. dairy industry each year, according to the USDA Agriculture Research Service.

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Mention Newton, IA, and what comes to mind? A major brand of appliances? How about Maytag Blue? Blue cheese, that is. Yes! That’s right. Maytag Blue cheese has been produced on the Maytag Dairy Farms since 1941, and in this age of technology, Maytag cheese makers are still using the same hand-making production that they created over 67 years ago. And according to blue cheese lovers, Maytag Blue cheese is “Bon Appetite” and according to cheese connoisseurs as America’s finest blue cheese.

(January 20, 2009) Market analyst Mary Ledman, Principal of Keough Ledman and Associates in Libertyville, Illinois, said in Tuesday’s DairyLine that she was surprised that Friday's Milk Production report showed more cows were added in December but explained that the all-milk price in November was strong so that carried into December, but she pointed out that 20,000 cows have been added to the nation’s dairy herd since October and “That doesn’t give those in the corporate buying seat any worry that we’re going to run out of milk any time soon.”