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Dairy star: Dr. jim bennett

• Benefits of grooming stalls
• Benefits of feeding more liquid calories to calves
• Good colostrum management = more milk as adults
• Towel laudering tips
• 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?
• Thankful for you and your tenacity
• 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
• Farm Program 3.0

• 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
• Oh, how far we've come...
• Pesky Prototheca
• Abomasal bloat in calves
• A Christmas gift guide
• Implants:  A Free Lunch?
• Thoracic ultrasound used for replacement culling
• Emergency calf resuscitation kit
• Net Herd Replacement Costs and its effect on cash flow
• Fly control
• Ceftiofur residues on the rise
• Selective dry cow therapy review
• Stop playing the guessing game
• Needles:  One size does not fit all
• 'Tis the season
• Dirty jobs:  Dehorning part 3
• Dirty jobs:  Dehorning part 2
• Dirty jobs:  Dehorning part 1
• Consistent milking practices and continual training supports quality milk production
• 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
• Farm 3.0
• Pregnancy = Profit 2
• Pregnancy = Profit
• Newborn resuscitation 
• Twinning
• Culture-based mastitis treatment
• Cold weather calf care

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

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