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Keep sand where you need it, not where you don’t

Sand bedding provides a healthy, comfortable environment for dairy cows. It also requires deliberate management in facilities and fields.

May 28, 2024

Renee Schrift

The benefits of sand bedding for dairy cows are many. However, sand is not always the easiest material to incorporate into manure management systems.

Sustainability: Not a one-size-fits-all solution

Dairy West and Idaho Dairymen’s Association offered dairy farmers the opportunity to travel across the country to learn how others are working to achieve dairy’s Net Zero Initiative. Through the tours, producers realized there is no single recipe for achieving sustainability goals.

August 9, 2023

Jessica Schmitt

Dairy producers in Idaho and Utah are hungry for answers as they consider the viability of technology and other practices to achieve the industry’s 2050 goal to be greenhouse gas neutral or better.

Is your dairy’s sand bedding quality up to par?

Do not shortchange your cows or manure handling system with poor-quality sand.

June 16, 2023

Renee Schrift

Sand is the gold standard for dairy cow bedding, but all that glitters is not gold.

Why sludge matters and what to do about it

February 28, 2022

Kelli Boylen

There is liquid manure, solid manure and then there is sludge. How much sludge is in your lagoon and why does it matter?

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Keep sand where you need it, not where you don’t

Sustainability: Not a one-size-fits-all solution

Is your dairy’s sand bedding quality up to par?

Why sludge matters and what to do about it

Progressive Events: Pushing for reproductive progress at 2024 DCRC annual meeting

Economic Update: Class I base price starts new year weaker

HPAI update: Seven states added for milk testing; California declares state of emergency

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Progressive Events: Pushing for reproductive progress at 2024 DCRC annual meeting

November 2024 FMMO uniform milk prices remain fluid

Progressive Events: U.S. Dairy Sustainability Alliance meeting highlights industry efforts

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[Podcast] Dwayne Faber: Keeping employees motivated and engaged when managing dairies from afar

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