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Though maternity pens can sometimes feel chaotic to manage, there are additional ways to help minimize stress and create a calmer calving environment for both cow and calf.

Keeping cows, calves and employees comfortable during the winter months is a balancing act. However finding the right combination between keeping animals warm while also providing adequate air exchange is essential.

If raising your own beef-on-dairy animals pencils out, it’s important to make sure your facilities can handle the load.

Dairy farms can often be a slippery place for both farmers and cows to work.

Whether they’re used for pregnancy checking, herd health days or A.I. breeding, headlocks come in handy for a multitude of reasons. But are our cows spending unnecessary time locked up?

Tips to keep the heart and soul of your operation neat and tidy.

As the thermometer starts to dip lower and lower, now is the time to make sure your calf warming room is in tip-top shape.

Oregon dairy farmers are being a target once again. This time a group of environmental, public health and animal welfare petitioned Oregon regulators to approve new rules targeting air pollution from large-scale dairies.

The On-Farm Milk Storage & Handling Grant provides grants for dairy farmers to access funds that support the purchase of equipment and other related costs that will improve milk storage, handling and energy efficiencies.

Making a big investment on a farm takes a lot of consideration. Often, owners meet with outside team members to help brainstorm and think through this process. The same holds true when producers look to purchase robots.

Each region of the U.S. presents its own challenges with raising calves, with the varying landscapes often dictating the layout of calf facilities.

Many farmers have pushed pause on expansion plans since the pandemic due to the economic uncertainties facing agriculture. Farmers are still plagued with financial worries and wonder if now is the time to build or not.

While prioritizing growing quality forage is a must, proper feed ingredient storage is equally important, especially during the hot summer months.

When milk prices are high, producers begin to question if they should milk more cows to capitalize on that milk check. Leading experts say the answer lies in good management and good animal husbandry skills.

While raising calves in pairs is not cut out for everyone, the benefits are promising.

Using an automated alley scraper is not a necessity, but it could become a tool that could save you time and money. In a competitive dairy market, these advantages could give your dairy the extra edge to earn more.

Farmers are constantly faced with the headache of keeping the optimal number of animals in their herd without sacrificing productivity or cow comfort. But when do the barns become too full?

While it might be tempting to batten down the hatches to keep cold air from coming in, lowering ventilation and reducing air exchange is one of the worst things a farmer can do for their animals.

The Klipp family shares their journey of going all in with calf technology.

Three dairy producers openly talked about technology must-haves and how ROI comes into play when making technology investments.

If you have an interest in adding a separating system to your dairy, there are several steps you’ll need to take before making any decisions.

When building or remodeling a calf facility, there are five key factors every producer needs to keep in mind.

When utilizing an evaporative cooling system, there are several factors to keep in mind to cool cows correctly and efficiently.

Just because a cow is resting does not mean that she is recovering properly. In order to maximize optimal rest on your facility, analyze these key areas.

Keeping milk equipment clean is one of the most important factors to producing quality milk. However, taking the time to make sure the wash system is working correctly is a chore producers often skip.

A well-planned calving pen gives producers the opportunity to provide the best treatment for both the cow and the calf. But what goes in to creating the ideal pen? Here are a few things to consider . . .