Current Issue of PD: Sept. 30, 2008
(site updated 9.30.08)
News and Business
In the news
Market reports
Low production causes tight cream market
Lower temperatures not helping Midwest crops
Feed ration adjustments are causing lower production
Ration and rumen: The two keys to improving efficiency
Price risk management in today’s electrified world
Prepare for the worst if you hire immigrant workers
Downer cows are not for dinner
Develop a useful mission statement
Meet your new digital extension agent
Employee meetings: Make the most of your time together
Managing milkers and the parlor
What is more important – cows or people?
Progressive Events: Diamond V Mills
Progressive Events: Ag Progress Days
Making misconceptions the target
What is Proud to Dairy?
Who is predicted to be successful?
The big question
Memoirs: Dr. Majeskie
Industry news
New products
Issue Focus: Progressive Technology
Precision dairy farming: The next dairy marvel?
Dairy: The fastest-changing technical industry in the U.S.
Are electromagnetic fields negatively impacting your cows?
Idaho producer believes in ‘progressive profit breeding’
Make each cow a standout with new dairy technology
T-5 improves lighting efficiency
Total equipment monitoring + Less down time = $$$$
Timely Topic: Calf & Heifer Raising
Current challenges and opportunities
in the calf and heifer industry
Colostrum during the critical first hours of the neonatal calf
Attention today, profits tomorrow: Feeding your heifers for success
PD Departments
Editor's notes: Build a legacy, be proud to dairy
Yevet Tenney: Ten Commandments
Brad Nelson: Yankee ingenuity for the next generation
Baxter Black: Grandpa Tommy saved the world
City boy cartoon
18 Reasons to Read
Northwest/Southwest Editions
From research to reality: Translating science to on-farm technology
Dairy producers finding ways to stretch their feed dollars
Milking with robots
Penn State celebrates pride and passion at silver anniversary sale
What about technology?
Detecting the dairy cow immune response
is a high-tech blast
Fall forage harvesting
Keeping stored bunk forage at high quality
Immunization programs to prevent viral diseases and control mastitis losses
Becoming your employer’s MVP
Alternatives to high-priced corn
Dairy Learning Center at UWRF offers
enhanced education
New facility attracts students to Iowa State University
Tiestall dairy barns: What’s new?
Is your worker training effective? Ask the cows and reduce protocol drift
Establishing and using a farm financial record-keeping system
Mike Gangwer: Reporting to you from Yaroslavl, Russia
Baxter Black: Serious ropin’ update
