Dairy Topics

Beef Topics

other General resources

• ​​Bimodal milking:  What is it and why does it matter?​
• Making a plan for chronically high SCC cows
• Benefits of grooming stalls​
• Antibiotic treatments for mastitis
• Winter teat care
• The effect of bedding on milk quality
• Revisiting culture-based mastitis treatments​
• Teat dip, what's the point?
• What do those numbers mean at the creamery?
• 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​
• What drives profitability on commercial dairies:  Part 2
• What drives profitability on commercial dairies:  Part 1
• Pesky Prototheca

• ​Revisiting the bovine first aid kit
• Strengthening your calf care program 
• 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​
• Don't let your calves fall into a transition slump: Part 2 
• Don't let your calves fall into a transition slump:  Part 1
• Abomasal bloat in calves​
• Thoracic ultrasound used for replacement culling
• Net Herd Replacement Costs and its effect on cash flow​​​
• Dirty jobs:  Dehorning part 3
• Dirty jobs:  Dehorning part 2
• Dirty jobs:  Dehorning part 1​
• Liquid gold:  Colostrum's effect on the calf
• Cleanliness is next to godliness
• Nature is cruel, we don't have to be
• Pregnancy = Profit 2
• Pregnancy = Profit​
• Twinning​​

• Check out Dr. Megan Weisenbeck's column in the Dairy Star here!​
• Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Certification here

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