The I-29 Extension Dairy Consortium's recent educational effort titled Raising Your Best Calf Ever updated calf raisers on the key components of raising dairy calves. It started with a "Boots on the ...

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa - Extension dairy specialist Jennifer Bentley discussed automatic calf feeding systems during recent Dairy Days in Sioux Center and Spencer. Bentley talked about the pros and cons ...

A small calf steps up to an opening on one wall of the barn at Aghaloma Farms in Knox, sticking its head through the metal-lined opening that’s shaped like an oval pulled outward in the middle, and ...

Zack Evers (left), 21, and his younger brother Eric Evers inside their new calf barn at Evermay Farms. The new barn was created for group calf housing so that the calves can have access to the ...

Shoreview, Minn. [August 18, 2016] – Land O’Lakes Animal Milk Products Co., has invested in automatic calf feeding certification and training programs to equip its sales and service personnel with the ...

WATKINS, Minn. -- Even with lower milk prices in the last six to eight months, interest in robotic milking machines and automatic calf feeders remains high, according to one of the region's largest ...

(left) Zack Evers, 21, and his brother Eric Evers, 19, inside their new calf barn at Evermay Farm. The new barn was created for group calf housing so that the calves can have access to the automatic ...

An investment in a computerised (automatic) calf feeding machine can bring greater control and consistency to the rearing period; they can also reduce the time and labour required to rear calves.

A farmer has lost an appeal to claim back VAT on an automatic calf feeder, after the Tax Appeals Commission ruled the equipment did not qualify under the refund scheme for flat-rate farmers. The ...

There is a lot of talk in our house about the feeding and weaning of grandsons, with a few born already, and more to come. Should they be fed with mother’s milk, or with milk replacer, and then comes ...

AN increasing number of dairy farmers in Cumbria are seriously embracing the latest innovation to make their lives easier, put more milk in the tank with less effort and achieve optimal feed ...