A new product to help prevent diesel & bio-diesel fuel gelling in cold weather is available from E TIP, Inc. Cold conditions often affect fuel flow during start-up and in daily operations. When it is cold enough to cause gelling in the fuel over-the-road trucks, heavy machinery, automobiles, generators and other equipment that must operate in low temperatures can become disabled.

PRO-LAK® dairy by-pass protein from H.J. Baker & Bro., Inc. is one of the most effective feed ingredients in the industry for improving milk production in dairy cows. Specifically formulated for today's high producing dairy cows, PRO-LAK® is a multi-source marine and animal by-pass protein supplement designed to compliment the protein from rumen microbial activity.

VENTURE MILLING-Precision Dairy Nutrition has opened a new facility here in Southern New York for the manufacturing and distribution of its ProvAAl® feed product. This “non-prohibited” facility only uses ingredients fully approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in dairy cattle diets.

By Gary DiGuiseppe

If “things aren’t working quite right,” says Lon Whitlow, a professor of animal science and Extension dairy specialist at North Carolina State University, and a dairy producer finds his cows are off their feed, susceptible to illness or just not performing…it may be time to check the feed for mycotoxins.

Burn ½ to 1/3 Less Wood with a Portage & Main
All outdoor boilers look similar from the outside – it’s what’s inside the unit that sets the Portage & Main Outdoor Water Furnace apart from any other make.

J&D Manufacturing is now your exclusive source for the Burn-Easy Biosecure Cow Cremator. This 9’ long two-chamber unit has a patented pre-tempered refractory block liner that resists cracking.

Select Sires Surpasses 1.5 Million Units of gender SELECTed Semen
Select Sires is pleased to announce that it has produced and sold its 1.5 millionth unit of gender SELECTed™ semen.

By Steve Weisman



For Fritz Hegeman, a fifth generation dairy farmer in northwest Missouri, owning and managing a dairy farm is both a privilege and responsibility. His great great grandfather began this legacy when he purchased 40 acres of land near St. Joseph in 1849. Since that time, the four generations that have followed have continued to care for the land and cattle and to expand Hegeman Farms to 950 acres, 160 Holstein milk cows and 190 replacement stock and steers.

By Gary DiGiusepe




"Have you ever walked into a cheese shop," Lynne Devereux asks, plaintively, "and there's 300 cheeses, and you don't even know where to start?" If you have, Devereux is here to help—and help her cheese making clients in the process. The Pleasant Hill, Calif. consultant is also founder and president of the California Artisan Cheese Guild, and she's watched the handmade cheese industry grow from the ground up.