Milk production and components

Monitoring margins in 2016
No two dairy operations are the same – on many levels – said Rod Wautlet, a consultant with Agri-Business Consultants LLC, a subsidiary company of Vita Plus.

By Karen Lee, Progressive Dairyman
As the dairy industry continues to make strides in efficiency, producers across the country are showing it is possible to achieve a 30-percent pregnancy rate with a 30,000-pound herd average.

Two dairy producers shared how they are accomplishing such a feat at the Vita Plus Dairy Summit on December 10 in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

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By Judy Brown, contributing writer
With a flood of information available in the dairy industry, the question is whether producers are drowning in data.

Randall Greenfield, a Vita Plus dairy nutritionist , serves on the technical services team. Throughout his 15 years of service with Vita Plus, he's seen producers confront the challenge of determining which numbers are more important than others in the dairy business.

During...