Four Crucial Components of Calf Care

  Four Crucial Components of Calf Care  By Amie Peers for American Dairymen Raising healthy heifers is a key component to making sure that future herds are high-production. Poor growth in young calves strongly impacts subsequent milk production.As such, even during a busy calving period, calves should...

Proper Transportation of Young Calves

 Proper Transportation of Young Calves. By Bruce Derksen for American Dairymen Magazine. While it used to be that calves were born, raised and lived their lives on the farm of origin, times are changing and with work processes of today’s dairy, many calves are transported to a separate rearing or...

Time to Examine Calving Priorities.

 By Jaclyn Krymowski for American Dairymen Magazine. If you know dairy, you know that every season is subject to being calving season. Rain or shine, sleet or snow, when they’re ready to drop you have to be on your toes. It takes no small effort to get those calves off to the best possible start and...

Acumen detection - Saving farmers thousands with early mastitis detection and ongoing surveillance

 Acumen detection - Saving farmers thousands with early mastitis detection and ongoing surveillance   Written by Jamie Hutchinson Mastitis causes every dairy some economic losses that can be frustrating at the best of times, even more so in trying times in the milk market. Now, a new technology...

Johne’s Disease: A Silent Threat

 Johne’s Disease: A Silent Threat  By Michael Cox for American Dairymen Magazine  Livestock losses can be frustrating at the best of times, even when we have a clear cause of death such as milk fever or pneumonia. However, a disease such as Johne’s can often be an even more frustrating...

Armenta: Non-antibiotic Treatment for Mastitis

 Armenta: Non-antibiotic Treatment for Mastitis  By Maura Keller Ink Due to the ongoing economic pressure of the industry, dairy farmers work to maximize profitability by constantly improving genetic selection, nutrition, and herd management. Armenta Ltd., an Agtech company located in Kfar Sava, Israel...

Maximizing Value from Transition Cow Diets

 Maximizing Value from Transition Cow Diets By Michael Cox The transition time period from dry to fresh is one of the most intense, stressful and critical periods in a cow’s production cycle. Managing the diet over this period will aim to meet the maintenance requirements of the dry cow, before...

Colostrum Banks Pay Big Dividends

 Colostrum Banks Pay Big Dividends Get a better return on your colostrum investment when you combine the Perfect Udder Feeding System with Dairy Tech’s latest colostrum pasteurizer, Matilda™! A smart veterinarian recently reminded me that there is no silver bullet when it comes to raising a...