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Other factors play a role, of course, but cows that are milked more frequently tend to give more milk.

Automated milking systems are a substantial investment, but in return, many benefits can be gained from this style of dairy herd management. For producers, less labor or more flexible use of labor is a major plus that can lead to an improved quality of li

Benefits of robotic milking systems often include lower labor needs, calmer cows, and greater milking frequency and yield. According to Trevor DeVries, a professor at the University of Guelph, there are ways milk quality can also be improved in robotic fa

Most people who have spent time working with fresh cows would agree that clinical hypocalcemia, often known as milk fever, becomes more of a problem as cows get older. Why that is the case may not be,Hoard's Dairyman Intel - Thursday

It was once common practice to treat nearly every fresh cow with a bottle of calcium intravenously (IV) to ward off milk fever, or clinical hypocalcemia. While Iowa State University’s Jesse Goff sai,Hoard's Dairyman Intel

Make the most of beef-on-dairy calves “Sexed semen has changed the dairy landscape,” said Dan Schaefer, an animal science professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, during the May Hoard’s Dairyman webinar. “The technology of sexed semen enables more rapid genetic progress in the dairy herd.” The question, he said, is what to do with the extra cow matings no longer needed to produce heifer calves. “The goal, of course, would be to add value to the surplus calves,” h...