milk quality newsletter

dairy details newsletter

other resources

• Selective dry cow treatment:  Is it something I should try?
• Treated cows:  Keep that stuff out of the tank!
• Bimodal milking:  What is it and why does it matter?​
• Making a plan for chronically high SCC cows
• Heat of the summer and coliform mastitis
• Benefits of grooming stalls
• Benefits of feeding more liquid calories to calves
• Good colostrum management = more milk as adults
• Antibiotic treatments for mastitis
• Winter teat care
• The effect of bedding on milk quality
• Revisiting culture-based mastitis treatments
• Summer and the bulk tank SCC
• Teat dip, what's the point?
• What do those numbers mean at the creamery?
• Spring cleaning
• Internal teat sealants revisited:  New options
• Heifers and mastitis:  No way to start her career
• Mastitis affects reproduction in dairy cows
• 3 things you cannot have to achieve a low SCC:  Part 2
• 3 things you cannot have to achieve a low SCC:  Part 1
• Effects of facility on udder health:  Part 2
• Effects of facility on udder health:  Part 1
• What drives profitability on commercial dairies:  Part 2
• What drives profitability on commercial dairies:  Part 1
• Tetracycline and lame cows

• Naps are not just for kids
• Revisiting the bovine first aid kit
• Strengthening your calf care program 
• Pasture management, mastitis, and plowing out stalls
• Turn out time
• Why do we culture mastitis cows?
• From the beginning (colostrum in calves)
• ​Are your heifers weighing you down? Part 2
• Are your heifers weighing you down?  Part 1​
• Adapting the 5 C's of calf care to cold weather
• Health goals:  Where should we aim to be?
• You can't measure what you don't monitor
• Beat the heat:  Don't forget about dry cows!
• Don't let your calves fall into a transition slump: Part 2 
• Don't let your calves fall into a transition slump:  Part 1
• Pesky Prototheca
• Abomasal bloat in calves​
• Thoracic ultrasound used for replacement culling
• Emergency calf resuscitation kit
• Net Herd Replacement Costs and its effect on cash flow
• ​Selective dry cow therapy review​
• Needles:  One size does not fit all
• Dirty jobs:  Dehorning part 3
• Dirty jobs:  Dehorning part 2
• Dirty jobs:  Dehorning part 1​
• Liquid gold:  Colostrum's effect on the calf
• Calf electrolytes are not created equal
• Cleanliness is next to godliness
• Nature is cruel, we don't have to be
• Pregnancy = Profit 2
• Pregnancy = Profit​
• Twinning
• Culture-based mastitis treatment
• Cold weather calf care

• Check out Dr. Jim Bennett's column in the Dairy Star here!​

​