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This Progressive Dairy newsletter discusses the impact of your genetic investments, highlights the importance of keeping employees cool during the heat, and features a dairy with a sustainable future. Learn how to build trust and navigate feed costs. 

Your herd’s genetic investment portfolio

Mandy Schmidt for Progressive Dairy

Unlike the stock market where you can cash out on a bad investment, bad genetic decisions stick with your herd and stay for generations. Carefully weigh genetic traits with the best return on investment for both long- and short-term gains. With genetics, one plus one equals three. You are not just creating a single offspring.

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Weekly Digest: August 2022 Class I base price remains above $25

June 2022 milk production inches above year-ago level

Dairy farmers head to D.C. to push for Dairy Revitalization Plan

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Promote Cow Comfort This Summer

The summer months have arrived, and for most producers, those hot summer temperatures have already made their presence felt. These raised temperatures are responsible for causing heat stress in cattle which can result in a variety of health problems, from decreased breeding efficiency and lower milk production to unhealthy weight gains and sometimes death. Promoting cow comfort during this time is key for the short and long-term health of your operation. Read on to learn the signs of heat stress and tips for cooling cows and minimizing the impact of flies during the summer heat.

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Keeping your people cool and comfortable is key to good health

Jim Versweyveld and John Shutske for Progressive Dairy

Each summer, dairy producers and their employees work through days of extreme heat and humidity. In recent years, the “dog days” of summer with high heat and humidity levels have started earlier, and dangerous conditions are occurring with a greater frequency in many dairy regions of the country.

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Feeding for better udder health: A postbiotic approach

Mastitis, an inflammation of the mammary gland, is one of the most consistently recorded and tracked clinical issues in commercial dairies. According to recent national surveys, it is one of the most common causes of morbidity in adult dairy cows, affecting 99% of U.S. herds.

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Family ethic fuels sustainable future at Bar 20 Dairy

farmstead master planProgressive Dairy Editor Dave Natzke

Operating a milk processing facility in the 1950s, Larry Shehadey started a dairy farm with just a few hundred cows. Through seven decades of growth, Shehadey family members have built a sustainability ethic that has spanned generations.

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33 cents: The elephant of feed costs

A dime, a nickel, maybe even a penny. Dairy producers and nutritionists go back and forth on cutting feed costs by fractions while optimizing milk production.

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Build a bridge of trust on your farm

farmstead master plan

Kaitlyn Davis for Progressive Dairy

One definition of trust is “assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of someone or something.” Trust can also be referred to as a vulnerability: You are risking something you value to be vulnerable to another person’s actions.

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