It’s a tradition for the selection of the grand champion Brown Swiss at World Dairy Expo to be accompanied by classical Swiss music and dress, complete with yodeling, alphorn blowing, and cowbell ringing. Pictured in the foreground here is Dublin-Hills Treats owned by Peter Vail and Ken Main of Copake, NY walking in front of the New Glarus Jodlerklub just … Read More
Alberta Holstein Reigns Supreme at World Dairy Expo
The Supreme Champion of the 2011 World Dairy Expo is a five-year-old cow who hails from Ponoka, Alberta. The Grand Champion Holstein, Eastside Lewisdale Gold Missy, paraded across the colored shavings to win the Supreme Champion honors, along with $1,500 Cash Award from BouMatic, a royal blanket courtesy of Agpro, Inc., Paris, Texas and a director’s chair sponsored by Royal … Read More
New DeLaval AMR Robotics On Display
Robotics is a word I’ve been hearing a lot around the media room at this year’s Expo. That’s probably because of several announcements like this one from DeLaval. At this year’s show they’re debuting the AMR automatic milking rotary system. I interviewed Thierry Perrotin, Marketing Implementation Manager, who is based in Sweden. You can see the unit in action in … Read More
Learning About The Dairy Business In Canada
Last week I joined with other members of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) for the 2011 IFAJ Congress. We meet every year in a different country to learn about agriculture there and for professional improvement sessions. This year we were in Canada and visited some dairy farms. My tour group visited Claynook Farms where we met owners, Wayne … Read More
Dairy Video – Where Them Cows At
The Dairy Goddess couldn’t attend the AgChat Foundation’s Agvocacy 2.0 Conference she passed along a video link to share around and I found it via the conference Facebook page. It’s a great video and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Where Them Cows At from Volt on Vimeo. Here’s what the producer has to say about … Read More
Novus Introduces C.O.W.S. Program
Today in Reno, Novus International introduced an innovative program to help dairy producers enhance the comfort and well-being of their herds so they can better maximize productivity and enrich dairy industry sustainability. The Novus C.O.W.S. program launched with a new website – www.novuscows.com. C.O.W.S. stands for Comfort, Oxidative Balance, Well-Being and Sustainability. Each of these four key pillars of the … Read More
Calcium Can Help Naturally Relieve PMS Symptoms
A friend of mine sent me this hilarious “Got Milk” video about how milk can help relieve symptoms of pre-menstrual syndrome. It is at least four years old and appears to be a legit commercial produced by the dairy campaign at one time, but it’s not really clear if it ever actually aired on television. PMS is often the butt … Read More
A Rumen With a View
“Everybody that comes out here wants to know about the steers with the windows,” according to Skip Hampton, manager of product research for Novus International. Skip is also the manager of Novus’ new research facility Green Acres Farm in Montgomery County, Missouri. He says the Holstein steers are used for research trials to study rumen bypass – how an ingredient … Read More
Dairy Farm Sustainability
I’m borrowing from the Alltech blog, Innovations, here. They produced a short video to answer a question very important to dairy farmers. How would you answer the question? What is the most important thing for a dairy farmer to consider with regard to economic sustainability? Sustainability means many things to many people. Geoff Frank is CEO of Improcrop, an Alltech … Read More
Alltech Global 500 Video Welcome
This video is what set the stage for the Alltech Global 500. We’re talking innovation, sustainability, risk management, feeding efficiency and much more. Alltech Global 500 Photo Album