A milk pasteurization and process control certification course will be held Aug. 16-17 at the Babcock Dairy Plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

The first of four Area Animal Science Days was held at Gays Mills in Crawford County on Friday, June 24. In the dairy cattle judging competition, 113 youth judged eight classes of dairy cows and heifers. In all, 52 senior judges gave oral reasons and 61 juniors answered conformation-related questions as they all competed for spots in their respective state contests.

Between February 14 and March 19 of this year, 10 cows that were part of a herd of beef cattle being studied by a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist died at Franbrook Farm, a university-operated facility near New Glarus, Wis. The cattle had been housed at this facility for more than four years without incident, but in February they were discovered to be excessively thin, evidently the result of not having been fed a nutritionally adequate diet. Six of the 10 cows apparently died due to complications during calving.

More than 100 campers from three states attended the seventh annual Badger Dairy Camp held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus June 9 to June 11.

City and country come together in late June to support an important cause – the next generation of Wisconsin dairy farmers – at a fun, food-centered benefit dubbed

A regular hoe handle is about 54 to 57 inches long, and forces workers to bend to reach the ground. This strains the back, neck, shoulders and arms. The long-handled diamond hoe’s handle is nearly 6 feet long. Tests done by the University of Wisconsin’s Healthy Farmers, Healthy Profits Project found a worker using a diamond hoe was more upright, leaning forward by only eight degrees compared with fifteen degrees of forward lean when using a standard-length hoe.

“We love our milking stool!” states Tim Powers of Laws Nursery in Hastings, Minn. This past summer, Powers and his employees tried out a one-legged […]

For nursery growers who use tractors and wagons to move plants, one-person hitching systems can dramatically save time and reduce the risk of serious injury. Without having to climb down off the tractor, you can back up to a wagon until the coupling device locks the wagon in place. Unhitching is simply done by pulling a release cable. With this system no second person is required to guide or latch the hitch.

The key to better Cheddar may lie in undissolved calcium salts, according to a report by University of Wisconsin-Madison cheese scientists published recently in the International Dairy Journal.

A bicycle ride to raise awareness about the crucial need to help Wisconsin”s next generation of dairy farmers get started will take place Friday, June 24 to Monday, June 27. The second annual Ride to Farm will begin just east of Eau Claire and finish at the opening of the annual Wisconsin Association of Agricultural Educators Conference, Marriott Madison West Hotel, Middleton, on Monday morning.