For a producer, determining whether to introduce a new solution into their operation is an important decision. So it is critical to develop innovations with the herd in mind. As dairy management varies around the world, carrying out validation research on Canadian dairy farms is a critical step in solution development.

Knowing the classification of a mastitis case can help you choose which animals to treat, saving you money and improving judicious antibiotic use.

Al Nessinger first fell in love with his wife, Bev, as a kid, growing up across the road from each other in San Martin, California. They sat next to each other on the school bus and helped each other with farm chores.

T-minus two weeks and all the political calls, signs, ads promising free bread and circuses will be done.

When we first started farming here years ago, I didn’t have many tools. Since I was very short on money, I ended up buying tools through a mail-order catalog. They were the cheapest tools I could find, and yes, they were made in China. The saying “You get what you pay for” was most certainly true in that case.

Halloween is almost here again. New Years, Valentines, St. Patrick’s Day, Fourth of July and here it is, just that fast.

Sometimes, while trying to hold a milker on a heifer intent on kicking it off or struggling to get a difficult dry cow into a trailer, I wondered – in all the sweat and anger and cussing – how we got to this moment. 

Il existe aujourd’hui de nombreux types de systèmes de détection des anomalies électriques pour prévenir les risques d’incendie, pour minimiser les pertes de temps et d’argent dues à des équipements défectueux et pour réduire les courants parasites.