Digest highlights

• DFA donating refrigeration, milk to food pantries
• GDT product prices higher
• Producer sentiment improves
• NMPF: Climate law holds promise for dairy
• Darigold strengthens global leadership team
• California authorizes emergency mortality quarantine 
• Dairy women in leadership webinar is Sept. 13

More and more dairy farmers are thinking about switching to robotic milking as new technology provides better options to manage labor, production and milk quality. In this episode, Matt Roberts, director of milking equipment sales for GEA, shares considerations for choosing the right robot type, real-world performance results and how to evaluate robotic milking ROI.

Pasture-based dairy herds continue to grow in the U.S. as the demand for grass-fed and continued sustainable farming practices increases.

Always in search of new business opportunities, progressive dairy farms are turning to diversified revenue streams. These astute managers have adopted a strategic beef embryo program to deliver on their herd’s future-focused management strategy.

All cattle breeders will agree that selection indexes are the preferred way to simultaneously select for multiple traits that affect herd profitability.