All Blog Posts Tagged 'dairy' (14)

Last week, we opened up the conversation about barn layouts, talking briefly about free cow traffic.

Today, we’d like to talk a little more about the concept of free cow traffic and, once again, open it up for questions and comments.

Free cow traffic – it is their choice

We admit that when we started robotic milking 2 decades ago, we, too, thought that efficient milk production…

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There’s some exciting news coming out of Canada!

Progressive Dairyman – Canada

First, Progressive Dairyman introduces us to Progressive Dairyman – Canada, a new addition for readers in Canada, scheduled to be published six times in 2011. Targeted to all dairy producers and related industry professionals in Canada, it will follow a similar editorial and ad format to the Progressive Dairyman – U.S. edition.…

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We’re excited to share news that South Dakota has become home to it’s first robotic dairy. Keloland TV recently featured Stuart Plucker’s farm in, Mechanized Milking.

Visit LelyLife.com for more!

If 2011 is the year you want to learn more about input costs, finance, nutrition, milk quality, herd management, and milk marketing and dairy policy plans, then you’re in luck!

Hoard’s Dairyman recently announced a FREE webinar series that will cover these topics (and much more), scheduled to be held the second Monday of each month starting on January 10th.

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Nathan and Barbara Blesy of Springville, NY, were recently recognized with the New York Farm Bureau Young Farmer Achievement Award at the December 7, 2010, annual meeting. The award recognizes young farmers for their agricultural pursuits and leadership within the community.

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More good news for dairy!

The Institute of Medicine released new dietary recommendations for calcium and vitamin D, taking special note of the important role of enough vitamin D and calcium in one’s diet. These recommendations, known as Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI), are used by both health professionals and policy makers to guide consumers’ dietary patterns. While the daily calcium recommendations remain similar to previous DRI values, vitamin D recommendations…

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Corporate agriculture. Land profiteers. Factory farms. CAFO. Uncaring. Pundits of “big agriculture” espouse the downfall of our food system while pointing to greedy corporations. After all, they’re looking to only get rich from subsidies, have no pride in the craft of agriculture, abuse animals in horrific conditions and pour chemicals on the land in an effort to make more money. Right?

WRONG! The people of modern agriculture are the same types of folks you see in Charlotte’s Web –…

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Happy New Year! Hopefully 2010 will be extremely prosperous and successful for you. We at DairyCast resolve to continue to bring you the information and solutions you need to enhance your profitability. Let me know how we can help you on a daily basis by sending me a note.



We are excited to share a three part series with you focusing on… Continue

Proud To Dairy represents dairymen and women sharing and exemplifying values of hard work, persistence, ingenuity, honesty and homegrown success.



Ryan Curtis and Ray Merritt provide the background, vision, and direction of Proud To Dairy.



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Educational seminar series from the 2009 World Dairy Expo, September 29 - October 3, 2009 Madison, Wisconsin, USA.



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Last week agriculture saw a rare opportunity; a major farm issue was showcased during prime time, complete with celebrities sharing food and farm facts. I asked Barbara Borges Martin, one of the thousands of farms impacted by California’s environmental over-regulations, to share her experience at the live filming of the Hannity on Fox show on September 17. This is important regardless of your state or residency; these types of environmental over-regulations may be precedent setting, people… Continue

As a Sophomore I'm trying to plan out what I want to do for college. My family has been in the farming business for a long time. I have a Agriculture background in grain farming. I'm wanting to major in something that deals in Owning Your Own Farm.Like Ag Business. I was thinking about dairy farming. But I'm gonna stick with the Grain Operation. If you have any tips just send me a message! I would really appreciate it.

Thank you,
Nick Greenwood

DairyCast's Trent Fredenburg chats with with Dino Giacomazzi, a California dairy producer. Dino accepts the responsibility of engaging in social media to educate consumers. Learn more from Dino via @dairydino on Twitter or his… Continue

I was approving the new Classified ads yesterday over on Agriculture Online and came across a listing from a central New York dairy farm looking for a young partner. So here tis, fyi: Dairy farm wants to mentor/partner



Also, decided to do a little reading on mentoring programs and found this piece in our archives:…



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