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Special Circular 314: Reviewing Artificial Insemination Technique
Balance Sheet
Effective Management Demands Clear Responsibilities
Collecting Data for the Tool
Cow Sense Laminated Handouts
Can Culling be Controlled in the Expanding Dairy Farm?
DairyAnalysis2020
Data Collection Sheet
Evaluating Expansion Plans
Facilitator Evaluation: Profit/Target team facilitator training materials
Facilitator Job Description
Force Field Analysis: A Tool for Understanding the Forces that Drive and the Forces that Restrain Change: Profit/Target Team facilitator training materials
Goal Setting Worksheet: Profit/Target Teams facilitator training materials
Penn State IOFC Request Form: Request form to complete Penn State IOFC Tool
Income and Expense Data
Interpreting Your DHIA Records
Making Decisions in Tight Times
Managing Information from Data to Decisions
Meeting Process Evaluation: Profit/Target Team facilitator training materials
Milk Production Costs
PA Dairy Tool Impact Flyer
Standard Operating Procedures: Managing the Human Variables: By Richard Stup, Penn State Dairy Alliance
Sample IOFC Request Form: sample request form to use with Penn State IOFC Tool
Simple Decision Making Grid: Profit/Target Team facilitator training materials
Team Member Analysis: Profit/Target Team facilitator training materials
To Cull or Not to Cull: by Bradley J. Hilty, Senior Extension Associate, Penn State Dairy Alliance
Top Dairies Have Empowered Employees
Top 10 Keys to Building a Profitable Dairy Business: Operating a successful dairy business can be quite challenging in today’s agribusiness environment. Volatile markets, droughts and other weather-related disasters, labor issues, and tight profit margins are challenges all dairy producers have faced at one time or another. Each can adversely affect the bottom line of a dairy business. However, by focusing on the ten key management practices in this publication, dairy producers can build a profitable business and ensure they will survive the tough times and prosper when times are good.
Training Milkers
DAS 93-44 Reproductive management systems for artificial insemination of dairy heifers
Dairy Advisory Team Assignment Sheet
How Will You Serve the Dairy Client of 2016?: Roger Cady breakfast presentation, 2006 Nutrition Workshop
Carbon, Methane Emissions and the Dairy Cow: Methane is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas produced by cattle and other animals. This publication defines dairy contributions to methane emissions and explores options for reducing methane production by dairy cattle.
DAS 03-62 Checklist for reproductive management
Dairy Advisory Team News Summer 2000
Dry Cows (372)
ec402 - Heat Detection
Economics of Calving
Economicos (Espanol)
DAS 01-35 Estrous synchronization programs for the dairy herd
Exiting The Dairy Industry In An Orderly Fashion: At some point in time all dairy farmers will be exiting the dairy business for various reasons. Whatever the reason, proper planning and organization can make for a smooth and more orderly transition. There are many things to consider when properly planning and organizing your exiting from the dairy business. An agenda of topics has been put together for future workshops. If you are interested in putting on or attending a workshop, contact Dave Dowler or the other members of the committee for more information. The developing committee for this program was David Dowler, Crawford Cooperative Extension, (814) 333-7460; Leon Power, Bradford Cooperative Extension, (570) 265-2896; Dr. Larry Jenkins, Department of Ag Economics and Rural Sociology, (814) 865-5461; and Dr. Michael O'Connor, Department of Dairy and Animal Science, (814) 863-3913.
Dairy Advisory Team Farm Financial Report
Feed Prices: The Feed Price List is assembled by the Department of Dairy and Animal Science at Penn State. Prices are obtained by using several sources: the Pennsylvania grain and hay market summaries, commodity prices from "Feedstuffs," and prices from local agribusinesses. This price list is to be used when current prices are not readily available. They can be used to least cost rations etc.
Prevention and control of foot problems in dairy cows
Problemas Ambientales, Particion y Requerimientos de Fosforo en Ganado de Leche
Incorporating Dairy Cow Behavior into Management Tools
Taking Advantage of Natural Behavior Improves Dairy Cow Performance
Grouping and Stocking Decisions: Herd Performance
Motivating Cows: Creating the Right Environment
Growth Manual
Guernseys
haylg
Extension Circular 402 - Heat Detection and Timing of Insemination for Cattle
Reducing heat stress on dairy cows
New Resources And Added Profits For Dairy Farms
Dairy Advisory Team Herd Report
Characteristics of Profitable Dairies: High Production ≠ High Profits
Cow Behaviour to Judge Free Stall and Tie Stall Barns
The Five Key Comfort Zones of the Dairy Cow
Livestock Technology INFOSheet: Free Stall Dimensions
Livestock Technology INFOSheet: Tie Stall Dimensions: Neil Anderson, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, www.omafra.gov.on.ca
Interpretation of Milk Urea Nitrogen Values
Jerseys
Ethanol and Distiller Co-product Production in the United States
4-H Dairy and Livestock Breeding Animal Leasing Program Project Plan
Lock - Biohydrogenation (.ppt)
Lock - Milk Fat Depression
Troubleshooting problems with low milk production: This publication includes topics on expected production, low peaks, failure to bag and produce ample milk, excessive decline in milk produciton, and short lactations. By R. S. Adams, L.J. Hutchinson, and V A. Ishler.
Low Milk Fat
Managing Hispanic Workers: Perception of Managers
Manure Sampling Instructions for Pennsylvania Feed Management Planners
Dairy Advisory Team Meeting Memo
Milk Fever
Troubleshooting Milk Flavor Problems: Producing a high quality food product begins at the farm level. Milk quality cannot be improved after it leaves the farm. Dilution or processing will not make good milk out of bad. Prevention is the only way to assure milk is of good quality and flavor. Sometimes certain nutrition programs or management practices on the farm can cause off-flavor problems in milk. This can have long-term ramifications with consumers because of a poor tasting product. This can undermine consumer confidence in dairy products. Therefore, it is in everyone’s interest to prevent these occurrences from happening regardless of the source. This fact sheet will address the common off-flavor problems and how they can be prevented. By Virginia Ishler and Bob Roberts.
Milking Shorthorns (2007)
Milk Income Comparison Among Different Milk Yields and Milk Fat Percents: This document explains how to use the Milk Income Comparison Spreadsheet.
Milk Progesterone Analysis for Determining Reproductive Status: DAS 08-131 Dairy Cattle (replaces 98-5)
Dairy Advisory Team Meeting Minutes - 1
Dairy Advisory Team Meeting Minutes - 2
Unplanned Realities of the Boom in Ethanol: H. Louis Moore, Professor of Agricultural Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
Protein Monitoring Tools for Certified Feed Management Planners
Nitrogen, Ammonia Emissions, and the Dairy Cow
The Effects of Heat Stress on the High Producing Dairy Cow (Black and White Version)
The Effects of Heat Stress on the High Producing Dairy Cow (Color Version)
Causes, Timing and Cost of Early Embryo Loss
Overton Milk Fat Challenges
Troubleshooting milk fat challenges on commercial dairy farms: T. R. Overton, A. L. Lock, and D. E. Bauman; Cornell University, The University of Vermont
Can Protein in Pastures be Too High?: by Lawrence D. Muller
PADairyToolForm: Form for Target Teams participating in PA Dairy Tool
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Phosphorus in Dairy Cattle Diets
Phosphorus Levels in the Soil
The Basics of Manure Testing
Evaluation of Phosphorus Management Approaches for Pennsylvania
Polled Holstein History: This publication is written by Dr. Larry W. Specht. Polled (naturally hornless) cattle make up only a small portion of the millions of dairy cows in the United States. The polled condition transmits as a dominant trait, much as black coat color in Holsteins is dominant to red. Both parents must transmit the recessive gene for horns to an offspring in order for their calf to be horned. Why then, do nearly all of our dairy cattle have horns? The primary reason is that few breeders ever selected for the polled trait and/or did not select against the horned condition. Oddly enough, the history books tell us that the ancestors of our modern-day cattle did not have horns and that mutations must have occurred that gave rise to horns. Horned cattle proliferated, and it is thought that the occurrence of polled animals in modern times is the result of another mutation from horns back to the hornless condition. Before cattle were domesticated, horns were important to the survival of the species. Now, with dairy herds largely confined to barns or fenced-in enclosures such as pastures or corrals, horns are of little value and can be a detriment to good herd management. Nearly all dairymen in this country remove horns at an early age using electric dehorners or some other method. However, the job of removing horns from cattle of any age is a distasteful one and would not be missed if there were an easier solution. This report traces the migration of the polled condition in registered Holsteins in the United States back to the time of the earliest reporting of the trait.
Respuesta al Cambio en la Relación de Proteína a Energíaen el Crecimiento, Eficiencia Alimenticia y Desarrollo de laGlándula Mamaria en Becerras Prepúberes y Producción deLeche en la Primera Lactancia y de por Vida: by A. Jud Heinrichs; As published in the proceedings of Digal 2001
Red and White Holstein History: by Dr. Larry Specht, Professor Emeritus of Dairy Science. Abstract: How did we get a Red and White Holstein population in North America when all of their imported ancestors were Black and White? This publication traces the history of the Red and White Holstein on our continent. by Dr. Larry W. Specht
2008 Dairy Cattle Nutrition Workshop Registration Form
DAS 2004-85 Reproductive Management Systems for Artificial Insemination of Dairy Heifers
DAS 99-10 Storing and handling frozen semen

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