Test PB Collection: FTE

Adapted by Nicholas Clark UCCE Kings, Tulare & Fresno Counties & Jennifer Heguy UCCE Merced, Stanislaus & San Joaquin Counties While wet winters have caused sorghum acreage to decrease in recent years, early projections of water deliveries indicate that sorghum planting may once again be a necessi...

Adpated by Leslie J. Butler, PhD - Agricultural and Resource Economics, UCD While a final rule has not yet been issued by the USDA, it is likely that de-pooling under a California Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) would be similar to de-pooling in other FMMOs.

Adapted by Noelia Silva del Rio, DVM, PhD, VMTRC, Tulare Providing newborn calves with adequate IgG supply from colostrum is recognized as an essential management practice in calf rearing.

Adapted by Deanne Meyer, PhD - Livestock Waste Management Specialist, UC Davis Most manure lagoons in California are anaerobic. The microbes digest manure (residual cow food). This removes some of the solids from the lagoon and generates carbon dioxide, methane, and other volatile gases.

Adapted by Betsy Karle - UCCE Dairy Advisor, Northern Sacramento Valley Sharif Aly, BVSc, MPVM, PhD - UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching & Research Center The problem Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a disease of major economic importance to the dairy industry in California and across the Unit...

Adapted by J.P. Martins, PhD - UCCE Dairy Advisor, Tulare and Kings Counties Achieving high reproductive performance in high producing lactating dairy cows was once a nearly impossible task.

Adapted by Deanne Meyer, Livestock Waste Management Specialist This year theres $50 million available to reduce methane emissions from manure. Methane can be made in situations where manure is anaerobic (no oxygen). There are two simple ways to reduce methane emissions from manure.

Adapted by Rosie Busch, DVM, Veterinarian Specialist, CDFA Antimicrobial Use & Stewardship The new California law states that as of January 1, 2018, over the counter injectable and all other medically important antibiotics must be administered with a prescription or veterinary feed directive (VFD) o...

Adapted by Alycia Drwencke and Cassandra Tucker Department of Animal Science, Theresa Pistochini Western Cooling Efficiency Center With this summer having been one of the hottest in California history, the term heat stress is all too familiar around dairy farms.

Adapted by Jennifer Heguy, UC Dairy Advisor - Merced, Stanislaus & San Joaquin Summer forage harvest is upon us, and so is a flurry of silage choppers, trucks and packing tractors. Putting feed up quickly is imperative to the ensiling process, making monitoring during harvest equally important.