Jul 29, 2024 | Educational Blog
Author: Tom Brown, CentralStar Genetic and Reproductive Consultant Dairy producers often ask if their farms can maintain reproductive success while using a sexed- and beef-semen strategy. Given the current beef-on-dairy calf prices, this question has become a hot...
Jul 11, 2024 | Newsletters
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Jun 5, 2024 | Educational Blog
Author: Adam Wood, CentralStar A.I. Specialist When it comes to protecting a newborn calf, every decision matters. That’s why checking the labels of the products you use is essential to ensure they deliver what your calf needs. Recently, during a visit to my local...
May 23, 2024 | Educational Blog
Author: Kevin Haase, CentralStar Cooperative Director of DHI Services We recently discovered some very exciting news about CentralStar Cooperative; we have more cows enrolled and on test than any other National DHIA (NDHIA) organization. Becoming the largest DHI...
May 7, 2024 | News, Top Herds
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Apr 26, 2024 | Educational Blog
Author: Dr. John Cook and Rebekah Mast, World Wide Sires Access to relatively cheap and rapid genomic tests allows herds to individually test cows and heifers and to further enhance genetic gain through accurate identification, ranking females, and selecting the...
Apr 22, 2024 | Newsletters
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Author: Cole Mark, CentralStar Director of Consulting and Profit Strategies A smaller heifer inventory means reduced culling and turnover rates in the milking herd. This gives you the opportunity to milk more mature cows that produce at higher levels. Unfortunately,...
Mar 28, 2024 | Educational Blog
In 2018, Kessenich Farms, LLC, a 600-cow Jersey and Holstein herd in DeForest, Wis. was faced with reproduction issues. Wade Kessenich recalls, “we had a lot of abortions in the third trimester, and we knew it had to be something in the feed. We talked to Steve...
Mar 12, 2024 | Educational Blog
Author: Lauren Kimble, Manager ProfitSOURCE and Low Carbon Technologies Supply Chains, Select Sires Hang in there! Low inventory of native cattle (driven by drought and high input costs) and high beef demand have calf prices running red-hot right now. Sometimes, local...
Feb 12, 2024 | Educational Blog
Author: Phil Durst, Michigan State University Extension The 2023 International All Things BLV Conference was hosted by Michigan State University. The agenda included speakers from six countries on three continents and sought to create community around this issue that...
Feb 7, 2024 | News, Top Herds
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