California Dairy Newsletter

In this issue

• Livestock Drugs
• Farm Advisor Hires
• Calf Feeding Tips
• Summer Electrolytes
• Vesicular Stomatitis

• Applying for AMMP?

• Sustainability Conference

• Metritis considerations

• Milking robot survey

• UC conference agenda

In this issue:

• Every Drop Counts
• Sorghum- Deficit Irrigation
• Corn Irrigation Strategies
• Culling Decisions
• Nitrate in Forages
• Cooling Cows

• Almond hull nutrition
• Passive immunity guidelines
• Manure vacuums
• Mycoplasma prevalence 

In this issue:

• GOLDEN STATE DAIRY MANAGEMENT WEBINARS -SAVE THE DATE
• Selective dry cow therapy
• Cow bunching & flies
• GE food animal update
• Scouring calves
• New agronomy advisor

• CVDRMP Recommendations
• NIR or Wet Chemistry?
• By-Product Survey
• Welcome Tim Hackmann
• Waste Milk Quality
• Antimicrobial Survey
• Horn Removal Options

In this Issue.....

Forage Particle Length - 1

Disbudding calves - 3

Managing lagoons - 4

Fresno/Madera position opening - 5

In this issue.....

• Needs assessment survey
• Report of Salmonella in California cull cows
• 2016 sorghum quality and survey results
• Heat abatement strategies: tips and reminders
• Understanding your annual report numbers
• Spring sampling reminders

Sorghum Silage for California Dairies flyer

In this Issue...

• Timed-AI Programs
• TMR audits
• Sorghum field research
• Sugar-cane aphid
• BRD app
• Winter storms
• Meeting announcements 

In this Issue…

Methane in the news- 1

Welcome JP Martins- 2

Silage structure options- 3

Fresh pen milk yield- 4

Research Roundup:

                Sorgum- 5

                Greenhouse gases- 5

In this issue:

BIOSECURITY– 1

MAXIMIZE MANURE NITROGEN VALUE – 2

METRITIS DIAGNOSIS CONSIDERATIONS – 4

ANNOUNCEMENTS: PROJECT COOPERATORS NEEDED & POSITION OPENING - 5

In this issue:

• CA DAIRY CONFERENCE– 1
• SILAGE UNDERLAY, PART II – 2
• SORGHUM SILAGE PROJECT – 3
• IN-CROP CORN MANAGEMENT – 4
• IV CALCIUM & SUBCLINICAL HYPOCALCEMIA - 5
• RAISING HEALTHY CALVES – 6
• C & N MANAGEMENT – 7

In this Issue…

• GENE EDITING – 1
• SILAGE UNDERLAY – 3
• WINTER REMINDERS – 5
• WATER BOARD VIOLATIONS – 6
• GOLDEN STATE DAIRY CONFERENCE - 7
  
  

In this issue…

• Avoiding Drug Residues – 2
• Evitando los Residuos de Medicamentos – 3
• Lameness – Are Your Cows Stepping on Sharp Objects? – 4
• Cojeras – Están sus Vacas Caminando Sobre Objetos Afilados – 5
• The Importance of Dry Matter: Tips for Feeders and Dairy Producers – 6
• La Importancia de Conocer la Materia Seca: Consejos para Alimentadores y Productores Lecheros – 8

• PREPARING FOR EL NINO - 1
• MANAGING MUD - 2
• SHARP OBJECTS AND LAME COWS - 4
• PNEUMONIA IN CALVES - 5
• CAHFS AND ANIMAL DISEASE- 6
• C. COLLAR RETIREMENT- 7
• DAIRY ADVISOR POSITION
• RECRUITMENTS- 7

In this Issue…

ANTIBIOTICS ON DAIRIES– 1

CORN SILAGE PROCESSING SCORES OF CA SILAGE – 2

CDQAP CERTIFICATION & FEE REDUCTION – 3

SORGHUM TIPS – 4

N. PETERSON RETIREMENT – 5

UCCE Silage Day Announcement w Flyer

In this Issue…

 Monitoring DCAD – 1

What is dry matter? – 2

Salmonella – 3

Dairy Challenge in CA – 4

Environmental compliance reminders – 5 & 6

Announcements – 7

• California Dairy Management Seminar dates and locations
• English/Spanish

In this issue-

• What is IVF?
• Winter “To Do” List for Compliance
• Western Dairy Management Conference
• Meeting- Cow Comfort in Hot Weather
• Meeting – California Dairy Management Seminars, Focus on Feeding

In this Issue…
CORRECTING SILAGE DM – 1
SILAGE DM REQUIREMENTS – 2
MANAGING NUTRIENTS W/ DROUGHT – 2
A. CASTILLO RETIREMENT – 3
WHAT IS ENERGY? – 4
SOAKERS & COW COOLING – 5
Milk Pregnancy Test - 6

• Drought Assistance
• 100 Years of UCCE
• Managing Nutrients Without Water
• Sorghum for Drought
• Avoiding Antibiotic Residues
• Uterine Infections

In this issue…

• Preventing Milk Fever – 1
• Promote Your Product – 2
• Heat Stress Meeting – 2
• Voluntary Waiting Period – 3
• In Memoriam: Don Bath – 4 
• Hoof Health Meetings – 5

In this issue…

Changes to the WDR General Order – 1

Meet the New Advisor – 2

Silage Face Management – 2

Calf Diarrhea II – 3

Dairy & Sustainability – 4 

Upcoming Meetings – 5

In this Issue...

• Regulatory Reminders
• Forage NSC & NFC
• Marvelous Improvement Device
• Mineral Excretions
• Silage Survey
• Managing for Quality

Time for a Freestall Check? – 2

Es ahora el momento para revisar el freestall? - 2

Antiobiotic Residues in Dairies –2/3

Residuos de Antibióticos en las Lecherías - 3

Managing for More Milk – 4

Manejo para producir más leche - 6

Preparing the Total Mixed Ration: What Ingredients Should I Add First? – 7

Preparando la ración unifeed – ¿Qué ingredientes debo añadir primero? - 8

Identifying Sick Cows that Need to be Examined– 9

¿Cómo identificar las vacas enfermas que necesitan ser examinadas? - 11

In this issue…

Dangers of feeding pistachios - 1

Intestinal hematomas – 1

Understanding forage analyses – 2

Implement your protocols – 4

Announcements - 4

California Dairy Management Seminars in English & Spanish – 5

In this issue…

 Dairies in the news – 1

Corn silage management – 2

Freestall check – 3

Calf diarrhea – 4

Rabies in ruminants– 5

By-product use – 5

Retirements & Awards–7

Announcements– 8

Silage Day-9

Motivating employees – 1

Corn silage management – 2

Polio in cattle–4

Schmallenberg Virus – 5

Cooling dry cows– 6

Dairy closures – 7

• Mycotoxins – 1
• TMR Mixing – 3
• Calf Pneumonia – 4
• Technology & Cows - 6
• Announcements – 8

• Forage Dry Matter – 1
• Milk Quality – 2
• Research Update – 5
• Announcements – 6

In this Issue

• Management Considerations – 1
• Plant Tissue Sampling – 2
• Diagnosing Downer Cows – 3
• Supply Well Sampling – 4
• Utilizing Checklists – 4
• NRCS Announcement – 5

• Antibiotic Residues – 1
• Identifying Sick Cows – 2
• Monitoring Mastitis – 4
• Water Board Updates – 5
• Corn Silage Field Day – 7

• To Our Readers – 1

• Silage Face Management – 2

• Milk Quality – 4

• WDR Reminders – 5

• Protected Amino Acids – 7

• Nutrient Efficiency – 7

Managing Retained Placentas (January, 2010) - Manejando la Retención de Placenta

Heat Stress in Cattle (August, 2010) - Estrés por calor en vacuno

Back to Basics: Milking Procedures (November, 2010) - Principios Básicos: Procedimientos de Ordeño

Sterile Milk Sampling (November, 2010) - Muestreo de Leche Estéril

Herdsmen Shortcourse Announcement - Cursillo para Manejadores de Lechería

The EU Challenge

Milking Procedure

Milk Sampling

Irrigation

Update SJVAPCD

WDR Reminders

Announcements

• Heat Stress – 1
• Timing Corn Harvest – 3
• Sampling Corn at
• Harvest – 4
• Milk Quality – 5
• Meet Dr. Rossow – 6
• Fly Management – 6
• WDR Reminders – 7
• Repro. ShortCourse – 7