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What is the best bedding choice for cow comfort in stall barns?

Locomotion and hock scores, along with resting time, are indicators of the quality of the lying surface and bedding choice. With many bedding options available, this article provides recommendations for how to optimize each of them to improve cow comfort.

November 7, 2024

Emily Fread

Locomotion and hock scores, along with resting time, are indicators of the quality of the lying surface and bedding choice. With many bedding options available, this article provides recommendations for how to optimize each of them to improve cow comfort.

Making dried manure solids bedding work on your farm

An evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of using dried manure solids as bedding, including cost, cow comfort, mastitis prevention, bedding preparation, moisture content and more.

September 27, 2024

Halley Fobes

Dried manure solids are one of the most common bedding materials used on dairies today. Farms choose to use them because they also have several distinct advantages over other bedding types. However, no management decision comes without trade-offs, and farms using dried manure solids bedding must take steps to minimize their potential disadvantages.

Tips for providing the most comfortable bed possible for cows

Using the right type of beds and bedding for your cows improves cow comfort and profitability. This article provides an overview of the pros and cons of several types of beds and bedding options available for dairies.

August 26, 2024

Bradley Biehl

There are many things to consider when you start evaluating what kind of beds and bedding you will use in your stalls, and everyone has a different opinion about what’s the best option.

Which bedding type is best for your cows?

There is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to the best bedding. Considerations include cost, availability, facility design and overall cow comfort goals.

June 12, 2024

Amber Adams Progar

How do you choose the best bedding for your cows? Obvious considerations include bedding cost and availability, but there are a few less obvious considerations that will help you make the best decision for your farm. Take a look at them and discover which bedding fits your farm’s cow comfort goals.

Controlling bedding pathogens can reduce environmental mastitis

Recycled manure as bedding is an inexpensive and sustainable option. It is also an option that does not put the cows at greater risk for mastitis and higher somatic cell count when mastitis-causing pathogens can be safely and effectively controlled.

April 30, 2024

Ben Saylor

Controlling pathogen outgrowth in recycled manure bedding is possible. When a bacillus-based bedding additive was tested on-farm, a significant reduction in bulk tank SCC and mastitis cases was noticed.

2023’s hottest new technologies earn Nexus Innovation Awards

One of the award winners requires zero wires to work, another can separate corn stover from corn silage after it's been in the pile, yet another inhibits pathogen growth in recycled manure solids, one can tell you how much water and how often your cows drink, and the final winner uses a smell-masking technology to bring a product back into service last offered in the 1980s that increases energy-corrected milk production.

May 7, 2023

Walt Cooley

Progressive Dairy hosted these technologies along with PDPW on the Nexus Innovation stage – a live-format presentation that is a cross between a TED Talk and a Shark Tank pitch.