AMR: Innovation and Integrity
Appropriately named, our Agricultural Management Resources (AMR) group works to provide farms with a variety of technological resources to help manage and increase the overall efficiency of data use on…
DHI Farm Service 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…
Somatic Cell Count: Costs and Opportunities
Increased Somatic Cell count (SCC) can be costly. Not only can these elevated counts decrease milk yield, they can also lower your milk premium. Working with a Dairy One Farm…
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…
Fine Tune Your Heifer Program for Increased Profit
by Chris Dutton, VDM Recent trends in weather and milk prices have lead many farms to increase focus on their heifer-raising enterprises. Forage shortages due to drought in parts of…
Monitoring Dry Matter for Corn Silage Harvest
Sally Flis, Ph.D. – Feed and Crop Support Specialist It is that time of the year again, corn is almost ready for chopping. Harvesting corn silage for the maximum quality…
What is your measure of shrink really measuring?
Sally A. Flis, Ph.D. – Feed and Crop Support Specialist, Dairy One When we discuss silage pile shrink, most of the time we are talking about wet weight shrink, which…
Why is there an “a” on my NDF now?
Sally A. Flis, Ph.D. – Feed and Crop Support Specialist, Dairy One – [email protected] In the February blog post, I talked about the change from aNDF to aNDFom, but I…
Are your cows getting enough water this winter?
We tend to only think about water intake in the summer when temperatures are increasing and increased intake is needed to help with cooling. In the winter, water intake can…
DHIA: What is it? Who is it?
Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) is a national association that helps dairy producers create and manage records and data about their cows for use in making management decisions. The associations…