Category: General Topics

What Dairy One is Thankful for on Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving holiday is often a time to reflect on things that people are thankful for. This year, Dairy One has a lot of things on our list, and we thought it would be fun to share them. The Superb Staff Our team of employees provides a variety of services

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Agriculture Careers: The Alternative Routes

When people say the words – a career in agriculture, sometimes we have set ideas of what that might entail. Some people picture a farmer caring for cows and crops, or a veterinarian or a nutritionist. Others might picture a truck driver, a mechanic, or a seed or equipment salesperson.

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Sensors on the Farm: How They Manage Daily Tasks

Technology has been making large strides within the last few years, especially on farms. From self-driving tractors to robotic milkers, these tools have taken over many of the daily tasks that farmers have to complete between sunrise and sunset. Dairy One now offers two new products that can tackle small

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Dairy One Attending World Dairy Expo 2023

World Dairy Expo held each fall in Madison, Wisconsin is an exciting event. Dairy One will be in attendance at the show which runs from Tuesday, October 3rd to Friday the 6th. Come say hello to us at table 506 in the Trade Center. Below are a few products and

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Farms in the Fall: How Dairy One Helps Them Succeed

As the fall season rolls into the Northeast region of the United States, many farmers are heading out into their fields to harvest crops. Alongside them is Dairy One, and its services that assist with crop management and harvest success. Check out the following sections for how Dairy One can

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How Technology Is Helping Farms Daily

Technology has changed how farms manage their daily workloads. From texting employees about schedule changes to GPS in tractor cabs, it’s quickly becoming an invisible employee on the farm. Dairy One is helping farms implement technology, and below are some of the offerings they provide to help farms succeed across

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4 Reasons Why Zoos & Aquariums Use Zooquarius 

As summer hits its full swing, many families venture out to visit a zoo or aquarium. There are many types of animals to see at these locations, and those creatures require around-the-clock monitoring and care. Dairy One’s subsidiary, Zooquarius, helps many zoos and aquariums across the U.S. provide excellent care

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Dairy One’s Impact on the Dairy Industry 

June is Dairy Month, and since we have dairy literally in our name, it stands that we would support this industry. From soil and forage analysis, through milk testing, herd management records and technology solutions for farms, Dairy One adds value to farmers in many aspects of modern milk production.

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How to Address Bilingual Needs on the Farm

Walk on to almost any dairy farm today and you are likely to find more than one language being spoken. With a diverse workforce, communication is important but is often difficult when there is a language barrier. It can be a struggle to ensure that protocols and messages are being

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The Dairy One Faces of Feedlync

There are many organizations that offer farms a variety of different services, but it’s the people actually providing the service that really make the difference.  As a service organization, Dairy One prides itself on its people. They often come from agricultural backgrounds themselves and have an appreciation and respect for

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Dairy One’s New Partnerships with BoviSync and Feedlync 

Modern management tools for today’s dairy operation   Dairy One is excited to announce a new partnership with two software systems – BoviSync and Feedlync! These technology tools, supported by the outstanding Dairy One Integrated Farming Solutions team will help bring farms to the next level of herd and feed

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How Dairy One Can Help Farms in the Winter

Here in the Northeast, winter has its own list of chores that need to be done to prepare for the cold and the snowfall. Amid winterizing barns either by testing curtains or checking for possible frozen pipe areas, there are some items on the To-Do list that Dairy One can assist in checking off. From animal care to technology help, the various teams within Dairy One can make sure your farm is ready when the snow starts to fall. 

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Five Ways to Manage Rising Fertility Costs

As fertility costs continue to rise, so too does the need to maximize efficiency of inputs. Carefully managing inputs becomes a topic of concern when costs are high. However, maximizing the return inputs provide should always be a focus of your cropping program. This not only helps manage expenses when

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John Deere Planter

4 Tips to Better Prepare your Planter for Spring

The success of your planting season starts in a few short months, and any errors that are made during planting have the potential to impact final yields this fall. Tuning up your planter before planting begins will help maximum yield and profitability, while also minimizing singulation and emergence issues. We

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Putting Your Best Sample Forward

Analysis can only be as good as the sample that was submitted. For the most accurate results, every effort should be made to ensure that the sample truly reflects and characterizes the material to be analyzed. There are a few things to keep in mind when collecting the optimal sample

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Our Fall Feed Management Picks

It is a great time of year to re-visit some basic feeding tools. Our Dairy One team shares some of their tips and insights on which services they think will have the biggest impact on your fall feed management. Forage Analysis To properly manage your feed program it’s essential to

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Farmer Focused Forage Team

Mike Reuter, Director of Analytical Services Mike Reuter has been a part of the Dairy One Forage Lab team for the last 34 years. As director of analytical services for the forage and soils labs, his primary role is providing leadership and oversight to those teams. An important part of

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Growing with Dairy One

By Taylor Gilbert, Marketing and Communications Intern As a recent Cornell graduate of the Animal Science Department with a dairy management concentration, one of the many things ingrained in us as students early on is the power of internships. Find out what you like, more importantly, find out what you

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4 Ways to Get Your Forage Samples to the Lab

The first step in getting timely sample results is a timely arrival of samples to the lab. Recent USPS delays have slowed the submission process of some samples. While this does not affect the time it takes to analyze samples once they arrive, it does delay the start of that

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Common DHI Testing Obstacles

For most herds, individual cow data is the foundation of cow management. DHI testing has been around for a long time. Like many service providers it has evolved to accommodate the changing needs of customers. If one of the following obstacles have kept you from testing, call us. It may

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Managing Production with DHI Data

While we have begun to see some improvement in milk prices, there are still some farms that are being asked to maintain a lower level of production than they are used to.  Many industry leaders have cautioned the importance of balanced production when it comes to sustaining an ideal milk

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Data Driven Decisions

In these challenging times, many farms are being asked to reduce their production. A complete picture of production helps you make informed decisions about feeding, breeding, early dry off, and culling. When adjusting to meet new market conditions, consider the following goals:• Maximize components while lowering milk volume• Improve milk

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Stewards of Change

The health of the environment and climate affects few industries as directly as agriculture. From soil health to major weather events, the livelihood of farmers depends on mother nature. While we can’t control the weather, there are many things farmers are doing to address the issue of sustainability. We sat

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Communication is Key

Last week I had the pleasure of traveling to Pennsylvania to visit two of our board members and their farms. Bill Itle of Vale Woods Farms, joined the Pennsylvania DHIA Board of Directors in 1986 and became a Dairy One board member when Pennsylvania DHIA joined Dairy One in 2001.

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Farming in the Northeast

Earlier this fall, one of our Agricultural Consulting Services (ACS) planners, was asked to put together some information for state legislators describing the value of farming in the northeast and the regulatory requirements that must be met to do so. This has great information for consumers unfamiliar with farming in

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Money from MUN

Dr. Chris Dutton, VMD Since rolling out our new MUN report earlier this summer, we’ve had some questions on how the information provided can be applied to pasture based or grazing herds. Dr. Chris Dutton, a member of Integrated Farming Solutions Support Team, was one of the team members involved

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Services in Action at Sunnyside Farms

At the beginning of September, Dairy One employees from our laboratories and Ithaca office visited Sunnyside Farms in Scipio Center, NY to see Dairy One services in action. Sunnyside is a customer of Dairy One on many levels, using our cameras, networks, software support, and DHI testing services. They are

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Udder Miracles at The Great New York State Fair

If you haven’t yet made it to the Great New York State Fair this year, be sure to put the Dairy Cow Birthing Center on your list of exhibits to visit. If you’ve already made your trip to the fair and didn’t fit the Dairy Birthing Center in, there’s still

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Couriers To Count On

The transportation and courier system covers about 14 states and is comprised of 25-30 couriers who drive more than 160,000 miles per month. This is the method by which the majority of Dairy One DHIA samples and bulk tank producer payment samples end up at the Dairy One Milk Laboratory

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NIR Relations

Near Infrared Reflectance spectroscopy, or NIR, is an effective and efficient method of analysis, used most commonly in the agricultural and pharmaceutical industries.  In the pharmaceutical world, NIR is used as more of a quality assurance method while in agriculture it is used to analyze the nutrients present in feed

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Delivering Assurance

Dairy farmers are paid for their milk based on volume and quality, which is measured by fat, protein, somatic cell count (SCC), and bacteria presence. When the milk is picked up by the milk truck, a sample is taken from the farm’s bulk tank. These samples are then sent to

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Service with a Smile

Nestled in the back corner of the building there is a little office where any samples from hay and corn silage to eels and banana trees are entered into the Dairy One Laboratory System to begin their nutrient analysis journey. This is home to our Forage Lab Customer Support group,

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The Many Hats of Jennifer and Jyll

When the Dairy One center in Ithaca officially comes to life at 8 am every morning, Jennifer (pictured right) and Jyll (pictured left) assume their respective positions as Receptionist and Administrative Support/Graph Design. They take their places at the front desk, greeting anyone who walks through the front door and

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Getting the Dirt on ACS

Agricultural Consulting Services, or ACS, is the crop consulting organization at Dairy One. ACS offices can also be found in Henrietta, NY. While they may not appear to fall directly under the Dairy One umbrella at first glance, ACS is a crucial piece of the Dairy One puzzle. Everything on

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IFS: Innovation and Integrity

Appropriately named, our Integrated Farming Solutions (IFS) group works to provide farms with a variety of technological resources to help manage and increase the overall efficiency of data use on your farm. The IFS group offers everything from identification tags to herd management software to on-farm camera installations. This dynamic

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DHI Technicians: More than a Milk Tester

One of the best parts of my role at Dairy One is having the opportunity to work with a variety of different business units. This requires committing a large amount of time to gaining a better understanding of how all the different pieces of the Dairy One puzzle fit together.

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New to Dairy One

My name is Molly Gildea and I am the new Assistant Manager of Marketing and Communications at Dairy One. I grew up in Southern New Hampshire and developed the horse crazy bug at a young age. I began riding at the age of 9 and spent every moment from that

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