Source: Journal of Dairy Science
ABSTRACT
Dairy calves in North America traditionally are housed individually and fed by manual milk feeding (MMF) systems with buckets or bottles. Automated milk feeders (AMF) allow for more natural milk feeding frequencies and volumes, and...
Source: Elsevier, ScienceDirect
Highlights
This study determined the accuracy of a cow-side device to quantify blood BHBA and glucose compared to a laboratory method.
The device was able to accurately measure blood BHBA concentrations and diagnose ketosis in lactating dairy...
Source: Penn State, Jeff Mulhollem
Dairy farmers in the Northeast — facing a warming climate that exacerbates nutrient pollution but lengthens the growing season — can reduce the environmental impact of their operations and maximize revenues by double cropping and...
Source: National Library of Medicine
Peter S. Ericksona and Kenneth F. Kalscheurb
Guest Editor (s): Fuller W. Bazer
Guest Editor (s): G. Cliff Lamb
Guest Editor (s): Guoyao Wu
aDepartment of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
bU.S....
Source: DRECA, Dr. Burim Ametaj, University of Alberta
Why is this important?
Reproduction failure is the number one cause for culling of dairy cows in Canada. According to DHI records 20% (~57,592 cows) of all dairy cows were culled during 2013, because they...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/
M.G. Colazo1 , M. Gobikrushanth 2 , A. Behrouzi 1 , I. López-Helguera 3 , and B. Hoff 4
1Livestock Research Section, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, Canada; 2AFNS, University of Alberta, Canada; 3Department of Animal Science,...
Source: Iowa State University news release
Iowa State University researchers have found that wind turbines located in agricultural fields are a plus for the crops growing around them.
The overall effects on crops growing in wind farms appear to be positive...
Source: Journal of Dairy Science, B.L. Basiel, A.A. Barragan, T.L. Felix, C.D. Dechow
ABSTRACT
In the United States, it is becoming common for dairy herds to mate a portion of cows to beef semen to create a value-added calf. The objectives...
Source: The Animal Consortium
BW of replacement heifers is rarely measured on commercial farms, making it difficult to evaluate the success of management practices related to calf growth. Our aims were to describe variability among commercial farms in Holstein heifer BW,...
Source: SaskMilk, Jennifer Haisan, Masahito Oba and Greg Penner
About the author:
Jennifer is a student at the University of Alberta and conducted this study as a part of her PhD. Jennifer came to the Rayner Dairy Facility to conduct the...
