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The day before Christmas, producers Kent and Coreena Meyer opened a letter from their milk processor, Wakefern Food Corp., owner of Readington Farms informing them they no longer would be picking up their milk.

Purchasing a couple of Jersey cows from a local sale barn in 1984 for their children, my in-laws Jim and Wanda Bohnert helped start a small 4-H project for their two sons, my husband, Scott, and his brother, Brian

Transplants could create unique, year-round beef marketing opportunity for dairy herds

Just because a heifer can get pregnant to calve at 21 months doesn’t necessarily mean she should be bred that early.

Progesterone is key to maintaining a healthy pregnancy.

Calves coming down with illness often are very good at masking their symptoms in the early stages.

If walking into your heifer barn gives you replacement cost anxiety, you may have too many heifers on your hands.

After incurring the investment to raise a heifer to freshening age, a difficult calving is the last thing you want as she attempts to enter the milking string.

Aggressively consuming dry feeds is the gateway to healthy weaning for young dairy calves.

Every producer knows that dreaded feeling when you find a cow who once was pregnant suddenly show up as “open.”

Bloody scours in calves is never a welcome sight, but diagnosing the source can help with treatment and preventing future cases.

Because newborn calves have very little body fat to help them stay warm, calf jackets can help them preserve energy, protect immunity and improve daily gain.

Growing dairy heifers efficiently, without allowing them to get overly fat, is a longstanding nutritional challenge. Calf and heifer expert Dr. Jim Quigley weighs in on how to avoid fat deposition in the mammary tissue

New program provides producers the opportunity to create premium beef while maximizing dairy profit.