Purdue Dairy Digest

This week Mike Rusch, with Stewart Peterson,a commodity consulting firm offering opportunity and risk management services

This week Dr. Ray Nebel of Select Sires discusses successful heifer breeding programs

On this week's episode of The Dairy Digest, Dr. Mike Schutz relates how to keep the respiratory health of your calves in top shape when on an automatic feeding system.

This week Dr. Nennich discusses the time between calving and first postpartum breeding, known as the voluntary waiting period

Put your calves on auto-pilot? In today's episode Dr. Nennich relates shares some insight to using automatic calf feeders.

In this week's Dairy Digest Dr. Mike Schutz discusses making your calves more comfortable, using calf nesting scores.

On today's edition, Dr. Mike Schutz outline the choices in bedding calves and the importance of choosing an acceptable bedding choice for you calves to avoid disease and well being.

In this week's Dairy Digest Dr. Nennich discusses the upcoming Indiana state and regional dairy meetings.

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

After Last year's drought, many farmers heaved a big sigh of relief when the 2013 season was much better. However, success in feeding this year's corn silage crop has been, well, not what was expected.

This week, Tana Dennis, a graduate student in dairy science at Purdue University, relates the importance of the nutrient Choline in the diets of dairy cattle.

This week, Tana Dennis, a graduate student in dairy science at Purdue University, relates the importance of the nutrient Folate in the diets of dairy cattle.

Happy Thanksgiving

Its getting cold outside and this week Dr. Nennich tells about feeding your calves this winter

In this week's episode, Dr. Kara Stewart, Purdue's reproductive specialist recounts methods to improve you herds pregnancy rates.

This week Tana Dennis, a graduate student at Purdue University, relates how Niacin supplementation can add to your milking herd's health and bottom line.

Dr. Kara Stewart, a reproductive specialist at Purdue University, relates how to benchmark the reproductive fitness of your dairy herd by defining indicators such as conception vs pregnancy rates.

Calving is a stressful time for cow, calf and owner. Today, Dr. Nennich tells how having a plan to your calving can relieve calving anxiety.

This week Tana Dennis, a graduate student at Purdue University, discusses the supplementation of your dairy cows with vitamin Biotin