Dairy Digest, June 2006
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In this Issue: Hot Weather - Ready or Not!; Minimize the Adverse Affect of the Dog Days of Summer on Reproduction; Identifying Bottlenecks to Profitability on Dairy Farms
- Hot Weather - Ready or Not!
- Just think SAAWS as the sun gets higher in the sky and the temperatures in our humid climate start to go above 75 degrees.
- Minimize the Adverse Affect of the Dog Days of Summer on Reproduction
- Dairy cows are at risk of becoming heat stressed more than most animals because with genetic selection for milk yield the cow has a high internal heat production.
- Identifying Bottlenecks to Profitability on Dairy Farms
- Penn State Extension dairy educators across the state as well as faculty and staff from Penn State University's departments of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Dairy and Animal Science, Crop and Soil Sciences, and Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences have combined their expertise to create an innovative program designed to identify key opportunity areas limiting the profitability of Pennsylvania dairies.
