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  • What to do with chronic high SCC cows

    Monday, September 16, 2019 4:44 PM
        There are a variety of options for cows with chronic high somatic cell counts. You can sell them. You can ignore them and hope they get better.
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  • Preventing an animal welfare crisis

    Monday, August 12, 2019 9:39 AM
        For the purpose of this article, an animal welfare crisis is the release of a video to the media showing obvious mistreatment of cows or calves.
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  • Are Minnesota’s cows moving?

    Monday, July 15, 2019 10:44 AM
        The short answer is yes. Minnesota loses a small number of cows each year, but mostly cows move from one farm to another.
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  • Vaccine tips

    Monday, June 10, 2019 9:45 AM
        Dr. Victor Cortese presented tips for proper vaccine use in cattle to the AABP New Graduate Conference in Columbus, Ohio in early 2019.
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  • A fresh pen

    Monday, May 13, 2019 10:06 AM
    I had the opportunity to fill in for an absent herdsman and perform his daily fresh pen examinations.
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  • A bovine first aid kit

    Monday, April 15, 2019 10:21 AM
        In the old days, veterinarians dealt with a lot of emergencies on dairy farms. Today this is much less the case. It is not that cows and calves do not have emergencies, but that today’s farmers handle most themselves.
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  • Growing dairy in China

    Monday, March 11, 2019 1:29 PM
        Recently, I visited China to consult on dairy farms. It was a fascinating experience.
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  • Who took my colostrum?

    Monday, February 11, 2019 11:27 AM
        Low colostrum yield has recently become a more common complaint from dairy farmers.
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  • Antibiotic treatment decisions for mastitis

    Monday, January 14, 2019 10:43 AM
        There are only a handful of antibiotics approved for treatment of mastitis in the United States.
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  • Hold that VWP

    Monday, December 10, 2018 10:16 AM
        Years ago, we used to hear that most cows were not fully ready to breed until around 40 days after calving. Some farmers would breed cows if they were just past 40 days in milk, but over time most seemed to wait until 50 days before breeding.
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