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California Dairy Newsletter- July 2021

  • Every Drop Counts During Drought
  • Sorghum Production Under Deficit Irrigation
  • Irrigation Strategies for Corn During Drought Years
  • Culling Decisions During Drought
  • Drought May Increase the Chances for Risky Levels of Nitrate in Forages
  • A Few Tips to Cool Cattle, Keeping Water Use in Mind

California Dairy Newsletter- May 2021

  • Golden State Dairy Management Webinars
  • Almond Hulls: A Valuable, yet Highly Variable, Byproduct Feedstuff
  • Calf and Herd-Level Passive Immunity: New Industry Guidelines
  • Nutrient Content of Vacuumed Manure
  • Mycoplasma Prevalence in California Herds

California Dairy Newsletter- March 2021

  • Golden State Dairy Management Webinars Save the Date
  • Selective Dry Cow Therapy; Economics and Impact on Antibiotic Use
  • Cow Bunching on California Dairies
  • Proposed Change to the Regulation of Genetically Engineered Food Animals
  • Bacteria, Viruses and Parasites, Oh My! What Causes Scours in Dairy Calves?
  • Hold the Date: Genome Editing for Polled
  • New UCCE- Field Crops Agronomy and Weed Management Advisor in Northern SJV

California Dairy Newsletter- December 2020

  • Tips and Tricks for Managing and Preventing Calf Pneumonia
  • Manure and Methane Recovering
  • The First Ever Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) Risk Assessment Tool for Preweaned Dairy Calves
  • Research Roundup: It's Not Just the Equipment
  • Nutritionist Input Needed

California Dairy Newsletter- August 2020

  • "How To" Reminders for Summer Silage Harvest
  • 2020 Alfalfa and Forage Virtual Field Day
  • Implementing Calf Management Practices: Does It Pay?
  • New AMMP Practices under consideration
  • Advantages of Moving from an Exclusively Natural Service Breeding Program to Artificial Insemination

California Dairy Newsletter- May 2020

  • Golden State Dairy Management Conference Presentations Now Online!
  • UC Farm Advisors Working Remotely
  • By-Product Management Practices on California Dairies
  • Milking Strategies to Improve Energy and Mineral Balances in Early Lactation
  • COVID-19 Resources
  • Grants Fund Alternative Manure Management Practices on Dairies
  • Research Opportunity: Improving Our Understanding of Antibiotics in Dairy Farms
  • What are the Sexed and Beef Semen Strategies Adopted by California Dairy Farmers?

California Dairy Newsletter- February 2020

  • Meeting & Seminar Announcements
  • Are You Dryng Cloth Udder Prep Towels with Heat?
  • Mental Health is Important 
  • Profile of the Animal Science Major at U.C. Davis
  • Funds Available for Dairies to Reach 40% Reduction in Greenhouse Gases
  • Golden State Dairy Management Conference Meeting Information

California Dairy Newsletter- November 2019

  • Starting Out Right with this Year's Irrigated Double Crop of Small Grains Forage
  • What do California Dairies Look Like?
  • Funding Opportunities for Alternative Manure Management Projects 
  • High Bacterial Counts in Pasteurized Waste Milk?
  • Research Roundup: Preliminary By-Product Feeding Survey Results
  • Daniela Bruno, UCCE Dairy Advisor, Now Serving Kings County

California Dairy Newsletter- August 2019

  • Scouring Calves: Treatment Starts with Fluids!
  • Heat Stress During the Dry Period Affects Multiple Generations- Keep Your Dry Cows Cool
  • New Nutrient Management and Soil Quality Advisor in Fresno, Madera, Kings, and Tulare Counties
  • 2019 Annual Alfalfa and Forage Field Day
  • A Meeting You Don't Want to Miss
  • Compost Bedded Pack Barn Design and Management Considerations
  • UC Davis has New Milking Parlor Equipment!
  • By-Product Usage Survey Responses Needed!
  • Beef Semen: An Overview of its Use as a Tool to Improve Profitability

California Dairy Newsletter- May 2019

  • Don't Believe Everything You Hear at the Farm Show
  • In Case You Missed It: CVDRMP Recommendations to the Water Board
  • ABCs of Forage Analyses: Wet Chemistry vs. NIR
  • UC Davis Welcomes a New Ruminant Nutrition Professor
  • Waste Milk Quality: Minimizing Bacteria is Important for Calves
  • Antimicrobial Use Survey
  • Disbudding and Dehorning Best Management Practices

California Dairy Newsletter- February 2019

  • Research Roundup: Almond Hull Usage on California Dairies
  • Reno-bound: Western Dairy Management Conference (WDMC)
  • US Holstein Association Funding Heat Tolerance Research- Volunteers Needed
  • A Tool to Evaluate the Real Value of Semen
  • Spore-forming Bacteria Cause Spoilage and Reduce Milk Shelf Life

California Dairy Newsletter- December 2018

  • Use of Selective Dry Cow Therapy
  • Keeping Up with Navel Infections
  • New Dairy Advisor in Fresno and Madera Counties
  • Funding Available to Reduce Manure Methane Emissions

California Dairy Newsletter- September 2018

  • Long-term Impact of Heat Stress on Reproduction of Dairy Cows
  • The Easiest Way to Accurately Measure Forage Nutrient Yields
  • California Sorghum Silage: Nutrient Composition and Fermentation Characteristics
  • New Nutrient Management and Soil Quality Advisor- Stanislaus, San Joaquin, & Merced Counties
  • Buyer beware: Homework is Important When Reducing Methane Emissions
  • Survey of Antibiotic Drug Use in California Dairy Cows

California Dairy Newsletter- May 2018

  • The Next Generation of Carbon Management 
  • Feeding Waste Milk to Calves: Reducing Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Running a Replacement Heifer Operation or Feedlot? New Water Quality Rules Headed Your Way
  • UC ANR Advisors and Specialist Receive Outstanding Team Award
  • Use of Gene Editing to Introduce the Polled Trait into Elite Germplasm
  • 2017 Dairy Needs Assessment Results
  • Considerations for a Successful Sorghum Silage Crop
  • Successful Golden State Dairy Management Conference

California Dairy Newsletter- February 2018

  • De-Pooling of Milk in the Proposed California Federal Milk Marketing Order
  • Colostrum Immunoglobulin G Concentration in First and Second Milking from Multiparous Jersey Cows
  • Liquid Manure Pipes Clogged? You Might Have Struvite. 
  • Improved Detection and Management Reduces Respiratory Disease in Dairy Calves
  • Achieving High Reproductive Performance on Dairy Herds
  • Golden State Dairy Management Conference- Save the Date

California Dairy Newsletter- November 2017

  • $99 Million Available in 2018 for Changes in Manure Management!
  • Ed DePeters, UC Davis Award of Distinction
  • Golden State Dairy Management Conference- Save the Date!
  • Welcome Randi Black, UCCE Dairy Advisor in Sonoma, Marin and Mendocino Counties
  • Fires Devastate the North Bay
  • Use of Antibiotics for California Livestock
  • Innovative Dairy Cow Cooling Technologies Tested at UC Davis

California Dairy Newsletter- July 2017

  • Monitoring Forage Particle Length- How and Why?
  • Disbudding with Caustic Paste
  • Managing Lagoons When There's Water!
  • Area Cooperative Extension Advisor- Dairy

California Dairy Newsletter- April 2017

  • UC Dairy Needs Assessment Underway
  • Research Roundup: Prevalence of Salmonella in Cull Cows in California
  • California Sorghum Silage at Harvest: Practices and Nutrient Profile
  • Is Your Heat Abatement System Ready for Summer?
  • Do Your Annual Report Numbers Make Sense?
  • Attention to Spring Sampling Pays Off

California Dairy Newsletter-January 2017

  • Timed-AI Programs
  • TMR audits 
  • Sorghum field research 
  • Sugar-cane aphid
  • BRD app 
  • Winter storms 
  • Meeting announcments 

California Dairy Newsletter-October 2016

  • Methane in the news
  • Welcome JP Martins
  • Silage structure options
  • Fresh pen milk yield
  • Research Roundup: Sorghum
  • Greenhouse gasses

California Dairy Newsletter-August 2016

  • Dairy Biosecurity
  • Maximize Manure Nitrogen Value
  • Metritis Diagnosis Considerations
  • Announcements: Project Cooperators Needed & Position Opening

California Dairy Newsletter-April 2016

  • California Dairy Conference
  • Silage Underlay, Part II
  • Sorghum Silage Project
  • In-crop Corn Management
  • IV Calcium & Subclinical Hypocalcemia
  • Raising Healthy Calves
  • C & N Management

California Dairy Newsletter-January 2016

  • Gene Editing
  • Silage Underlay
  • Winter Reminders
  • Water Board Violations
  • Golden State Dairy Conference

California Dairy Newsletter-December 2015 (spanish)

  • Avoiding Drug Residues
  • Lameness -- Are Your Cows Stepping on Sharp Objects?
  • The Importance of Dry Matter: Tips for Feeders and Dairy Producers

California Dairy Newsletter-October 2015

  • Preparing for El Nino
  • Managing Mud
  • Sharp Objects and Lame Cows
  • Pneumonia in Calves
  • CAHFS and Animal Disease
  • C Collar Retirement
  • Dairy Advisor Position Recruitments

 

California Dairy Newsletter-August 2015

  • Antibiotics on Dairies
  • Corn Silage Processing Scores of CA Silage
  • CDQAP Certification & Fee Reduction
  • Sorghum Tips
  • N. Peterson Retirement

California Dairy Newsletter-April 2015

  • Monitoring DCAD
  • What is Dry Matter
  • Salmonella
  • Dairy Challenge in CA
  • Environmental Compliance Reminders
  • Announcements

California Dairy Newsletter-January 2015

  • What is IVF?
  • Winter "To Do" List for Compliance
  • Western Dairy Management Conference, March 3-5, 2015
  • Meeting - Managing Cow Comfort in Hot Weather
    January 29, 2015, Tulare, CA

California Dairy Newsletter-November 2014

  • Necropsy's Value
  • Pesticide Database
  • Managing Salts
  • BRD Management
  • Choosing a Lab
  • Announcements
  • Remembering Tom Schultz

California Dairy Newsletter-July 2014

  • Correcting Silage DM
  • Silage DM Requirements
  • Managing Nutrients w/Drought
  • A. Castillo Retirement
  • What is Energy?
  • Soakers & Cow Cooling
  • Milk Pregnancy Test

California Dairy Newsletter-April 2014

  • Drought assistance
  • 100 years of UCCE
  • Managing nutrients without water
  • Sorghum for drought?
  • Avoiding antibiotic residues
  • Uterine infections
  • Aid for farmers with blackbirds

California Dairy Newsletter-January 2014

  • Preventing Milk Fever
  • Promote Your Product
  • Voluntary Waiting Period
  • In Memoriam: Don Bath

California Dairy Newsletter-November 2013

  • Changes to the WDR General Order
  • Meet the New Advisor
  • Silage Face Management
  • Calf Diarrhea Part 2
  • Dairy & Sustainablility
  • Upcoming Meetings

California Dairy Newsletter-August 2013

  • Harvest Reminder, Kernel Processing
  • New AVMA Euthanasia Guidelines
  • Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, General Order Reminders
  • Employee Heat Safety Reminders
  • Neonatal Calf Diarrhea
  • Sugar Beets as a Potential Starch Substitute
  • Dairy Surveys Underway

California Dairy Newsletter-April 2013

  • Regulatory Reminders 
  • Forage NSC & NFC
  • Marvelous Improvement Device
  • Mineral Excretions
  • Silage Survey
  • Managing for Quality

California Dairy Newsletter-March 2013

  • Labor Turnover
  • Feeding Calves
  • Forage NDF Digestibility
  • Position Announcement: Tulare & Kern Advisor

California Dairy Newsletter-November 2012

  • Pistachio Shell Imapaction
  • Jejunal (Intestinal) Hematoma in Cattle
  • Back to Basics: The ABC’s of Forage Analysis
  • Western Dairy Management Conference
  • World Ag Expo Calls for Forage Challenge Entries
  • California Dairy Management Seminars

California Dairy Newsletter-August 2012

  • Dairies in the news
  • Corn silage management
  • Freestall check
  • Calf diarrhea
  • Rabies in ruminants
  • By-product use
  • Retirements & awards
  • Announcements
  • Silage Day

California Dairy Newsletter-May 2012

  • Motivating employees
  • Corn silage management
  • Polio in cattle
  • Schmallenberg Virus
  • Cooling dry cows
  • Dairy closures

California Dairy Newsletter-February 2012

  • Mycotoxins
  • TMR Mixing
  • Calf Pneumonia
  • Technology & Cows
  • Announcements

California Dairy Newsletter-November 2011

  • Forage Dry Matter
  • Milk Quality
  • Research Update
  • Announcements

California Dairy Newsletter-September 2011

  • Management Considerations 
  • Plant Tissue Sampling 
  • Diagnosing Downer Cows 
  • Supply Well Sampling 
  • Utilizing Checklists 
  • NRCS Announcement 

California Dairy Newsletter-June 2011

  • Antibiotic Residues 
  • Identifying Sick Cows
  • Monitoring Mastitis
  • Water Board Updates
  • Corn Silage Field Day

California Dairy Newsletter-February 2011

  • To Our Readers
  • Silage Face Management
  • Milk Quality
  • WDR Reminders
  • Protected Amino Acids
  • Nutrient Efficiency

California Dairy Newsletter-November 2010

  • The EU Challenge
  • Milking Procedure
  • Milk sampling
  • Irrigation
  • Update SJVAPCD
  • WDR Reminders
  • Announcements 

California Dairy Newsletter-August 2010

  • Heat Stress in Cattle
  • Timing Corn Harvest
  • Sampling Corn at Harvest
  • Milk Quality
  • Meet Dr. Rossow 
  • Fly Management
  • WDR Reminders
  • Reproductive Short Course

California Dairy Newsletter-May 2010 

  • Carbon Footprints
  • Feeding for Animal Requirements
  • Training Videos
  • Milk Urea Nitrogen
  • When the Media Calls
  • Incinerators in CA?
  • Increasing Efficiency

California Dairy Newsletter-January 2010

  • Dairy Wage Survey
  • Overfeeding Nutrients
  • Retained Placenta
  • Water Use by Cows
  • Crop Irrigation
  • Animal Welfare
  • Forage Seminar
  • Herdsman Course
  • Dairy Business Education Meeting
  • North Valley Dairy Day

California Dairy Newsletter-November 2009

  • Language of Carbon Footprints
  • Employee Giftedness
  • Residue Violations
  • Johne's Disease
  • Tail Docking Update
  • UC Davis News
  • Nutrient Management
  • CDQAP Updates
  • Mycotoxins 
  • Announcements

California Dairy Newsletter-July 2009

  • California Dairy Newsletter
  • Dairy Production Today
  • High LPC's?
  • Purchasing Forage?
  • Mineral Content in Feedstuffs
  • Know the Signs of Depression
  • Increase Cow Comfort
  • Concealing Animal Mortalities 
  • Feeding Calves
  • Managing Irrigations 
  • Reproductive Short Course
  • WDR Sampling

California Dairy Newsletter-May 2009

  • Heat Stress Feeding 
  • Toxic Weeds 
  • Milk + Milk Replacer Powder? 
  • Culling Considerations  
  • Tail Docking Survey 
  • Tail Docking Practices 
  • UC Davis Teaching Prize 
  • Bulk Tank Milk Quality 
  • Educating Consumers 
  • Systems Management 
  • Feeding Gin Trash? 
  • Dairy Facility Options 

California Dairy Newsletter-January 2009

  • Proposition 2 and Dairies
  • Ruminant Feed Ban
  • Feed Conversion Efficiency
  • WDR Deliverables, July 2009
  • Tricolored Blackbirds
  • New Faculty at UC Davis
  • Pasteruizedcolostrum
  • Dairy Beef Quality Assurance
  • Top Notch Dairy Practices
  • Nutrient Tracking on Your Fields
  • Dairy Herdsman Shortcourse 
  • Regional Water Quality Control Board Inspections