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This Progressive Dairy newsletter features dairy farmers experimenting with manure application methods, recognizes Grayhouse Farms for their commitment to sustainability and provides a robotic startup checklist. Listen to our latest podcast and learn how body condition can affect the health of your herd. 

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Farmers find more ways to apply manure on growing crops

Progressive Dairy Managing Editor Karen Lee

In northeast Wisconsin, where water flows to Lake Michigan, dairy farms are experimenting with cropping practices and manure application methods to improve soil health and water quality.

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Weekly Digest: It’s hot, so watch for Class IV to skip the pool

Weekly Digest II: NMPF lays out FMMO modernization timeline

May DMC margin hits $12.51 per cwt

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Connections key to sustainability at Grayhouse Farms

farmstead master planProgressive Dairy Editor Dave Natzke

Grayhouse Farms has its family roots in dairy and its passion for sustainability dating back to the 1950s. Instilled by Reid and Peggy Gray, those attributes have been carried on for decades.

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[PODCAST] Managing data on Wisconsin’s largest robotic dairy with Jessica Pralle-Trimner, Miltrim Farms

On this episode of the Progressive Dairy podcast, host Peggy Coffeen sits down with Jessica Pralle-Trimner of Miltrim Farms Inc., in Athens, Wisconsin, to dig into the data she uses daily to manage 1,800 cows milked in a 30-box robot barn.

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Robotic startup: A go-time checklist

overstocking in a dairy barnNancy Charlton for Progressive Dairy

After weeks, months and sometimes years of planning, it is here; you are ready to send cows through the robotic milking system.

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Dynamics of body condition and health status affects cow fertility and survival

The environment of metabolic changes around calving results in loss of body condition and increased concentrations of fatty acids, ketone bodies and acute-phase proteins, accompanied by compromised innate immunity and impaired health status.

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Hypocalcemia is not always the enemy

Rodrigo García for Progressive Dairy

Hypocalcemia (low blood calcium level) is a “normal” physiological response in mammals to supply the calcium necessary for colostrum, milk production and immune system activation, if necessary.

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