Source: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Fact Sheet written by:R. Parker – Dairy Cattle Specialist/OMAFRA
Introduction
There are six key times during the yearly cycle when each cow should have her condition evaluated. These occur: midway through the dry...
Source: North Dakota State University
Herd Health Management
A good herd health program is essential to any operation
Provides for healthier, better performing cattle
Helps insure you are producing a safe, wholesome product
Good herd health provides economic savings
Decreased...
Source: National Milk Producers Federation
The U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) today sent a letter to the Biden administration recommending specific steps to provide relief and support to dairy farmers and exporters facing supply chain...
Source: PennState Extension
In 2019 the United States employed more than two million full-time workers in production agriculture with nearly 500,000 youth working on farms. Every day about 100 of these workers suffer a lost-work-time injury, and in 2019, the death...
Source: University of Missouri
General health
Less than 5 percent death loss.
Sanitation, bedding and ventilation are extremely important for disease control.
Attend calves from youngest to oldest.
Feeding utensils.
Use nipple pails or bottles to feed milk to calves...
The U.S. dairy industry has set an ambitious goal to reach greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050, and some Idaho scientists are part of a research project that will inform how the industry can reach that goal.
The greenhouse gasses that contribute...
Source: USDA, Dept of Justice joint news release
Farmers and ranchers now can anonymously report potentially unfair and anticompetitive practices in the livestock and poultry sectors using an online tool the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Justice (DOJ) launched...
Source: University of Missouri Extension
Joe Horner
State Specialist, Agricultural Business and Policy Extension
Ryan Milhollin
State Specialist, Agricultural Business and Policy Extension
Pasture-based dairy producers sometimes summarize their guiding philosophy simply as, “Grow all the pasture you can grow, and let the cows...
Source: Ontario Ministry of Food and Rural Affairs
Where Do They Live?
In the quarters and on the teat skin of infected cows or heifers.
How Is Infection Spread?
During milking via hands, equipment and towels used for milking preparation.
Disease:
Mainly subclinical (no changes...
One factor that’s front and center across our economy right now is rising prices. On dairy farms we are seeing the effects, with sharp increases in feed, fertilizer, seed, fuel and labor expenses. Fortunately, milk prices have also increased...
