Tag: dairy
Five things to consider when looking into robotic milkers
Dairy producers and dealers recommend producers do their research before investing in a robotic milking system.
Robotic milkers benefit small family dairies
Robotic milkers are changing the way small family dairies manage their farms with labor savings and production increases being the leading reason to install
Manure management needs to be nutrient management
A question that is becoming increasingly important is: how are the nutrients contained in manure accounted for and managed as that manure is applied back to the land?
If you give a cow a name…
A British study from a few years ago found that if you name your cows, they’ll give more milk.
Expanding the herd: Pfeifer Dairy prepares for the next generation
Pfeifer Dairy, in Crawford County, has been a family-run operation since 1902 and is now seeing its fourth and fifth generations on the farm.
Butter making traditions span six generations at Minerva Dairy
At Minerva Dairy in Minerva, Ohio, the fifth and sixth generations of the Mueller family are making butter the same way the generations before them did.
Building a compost empire
Bull Country Compost started out as a concrete slab in the early '90s and has become a successful 3 acre composting operation in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
Ohio prison farms begin selling cows, bidding to buy milk
Supporters say plan to privatize will be better for inmates, and more efficient.
California leads US in milk production in 2015
U.S. dairymen hit hard last year: Returns in 2015 averaged $17.21 per hundredweight, 28.5 percent below 2014.
Let there be light (and darkness)
Study after study have shown an increase in milk production when cows receive 16 hours of light, alternating with 8 hours of dark.
