Red cows and the colored shavings

Progressive Dairy Editor Matti McBride

Standing ringside at a competitive cattle show is a type of high that has captivated so many in the registered dairy cattle industry. Watching your time, money and energy parade across the shavings, looking the best she ever has, gets your heart racing analyzing the judge's every move and nervously tapping your toe. For Denton Ross of the Arizona Dairy Company, nervous was an understatement when watching one of his cows, Scenic-Edge Jordan-Red, parade the shavings during the Junior 3-Year-Old Red & White class at World Dairy Expo last October.

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Weekly Digest: See us at World Dairy Expo

October 2022 Class I base price slips below $23

October dairy risk management calendar

Correction: 2022 World Dairy Expo trade show hours

Leading the Change for Nutrient Requirements in Dairy Cattle

The parlor: The most important place on your dairy

Jason Reid for Progressive Dairy

The milking parlor is where you harvest your crop. All your effort in breeding, feeding and herd management shows up in the parlor. I often encourage employees by reminding them that they work in the "most important place on the dairy."

Do you know how well your parlor is functioning? Are you getting the most out of it and your cows?

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HERd Management: Creating community for farm women

When I think about what it means to be a modern-day farm chick, I think about all the women in agriculture who wear so many different hats. Today’s farm women are more than farmers, more than mothers and more than someone’s employee.

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World Dairy Expo: Time for a change

Progressive Dairy Editorial Intern Ashley Hagenow

Change is never easy and can even be uncomfortable at times. With a global industry event, the stakes are even higher when it comes to altering a schedule that has been in place for over 20 years. This year, World Dairy Expo (WDE) is shifting from a weeklong schedule to a six-day event structure, taking place from Oct. 2-7, 2022. The event will still include all the premier events attendees and exhibitors travel to Madison, Wisconsin, for each year – such as the dairy cattle show, seminars, virtual farm tours and the trade show, just in a condensed format.

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[Podcast] Davon Cook: Advisory boards and peer groups take farm management to the next level

In this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast, host Kimmi Devaney talks with dairy management consultant Davon Cook about how peer groups and advisory boards can improve your farm by bringing additional perspective to your management decisions.

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World Dairy Expo volunteer Berta Hansen: It's all about the people

Progressive Dairy Editorial Intern Ashley Hagenow

Throughout its history, World Dairy Expo (WDE) has been proud to welcome a few thousand international guests to Madison, Wisconsin, each year as the meeting place for global dairy industry enthusiasts. While only a small fraction of these guests attended WDE in 2021 due to travel restrictions, this year is expected to renew the multinational presence the event is known (and named) for. Ready to welcome these guests back to one of the best-known dairy cattle shows in the world is Berta Hansen.

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