Dairy Digest, July 2006
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In this Issue: Summertime Silage Feeding Problems; Special Cows Need Special Places; Estrous Synchronization Systems for Managing Reproduction during Periods of Heat Stress; Research: What's going on at the Penn State Dairy Research and Teaching Center: Effect of dry Propylene Glycol vs. Drenching; Dale Olver Recieves Youth Development Award
- Special Cows Need Special Places
- All cows on a dairy farm are important, but a small percentage of cows require extra special attention.
- Summertime Silage Feeding Problems
- Warmer weather can bring a whole new set of issues related to silage quality and feeding value, which affect dry matter intake by high producing cows.
- Estrous Synchronization Systems for Managing Reproduction during Periods of Heat Stress
- Prolonged periods of hot humid weather adversely affect reproductive performance.
- Research: What's going on at the Penn State Dairy Research and Teaching Center: Effect of Dry Propylene Glycol vs. Drenching
- Negative energy balance (NEB) is a physiological challenge the Holstein dairy cow faces in the early postpartum period when dietary energy intake cannot meet with energy output in milk. Infectious diseases commonly seen are retained placenta, metritis, and mastitis, which are consequences of depressed immunity and NEB.
- Dale Olver Recieves Youth Development Award
- Dale Olver, Instructor in the Dept. of Dairy and Animal Science and Co-Adviser of the Dairy Science Club at Penn State University received the 2006 American Dairy Science Association Hoard's Dairyman Youth Development Award at the national meeting in Minneapolis.
