Information for new members, news notes, etc...

If you are new to Dairyforums, please feel free to introduce yourself. It's a great way to let people know where you farm, what your interests are, etc.

If you're planning an event or want to promote one in your area, please let people know about it here.

If you don't see a dairy topic above that fits your interest, here's a "catch-all" forum where anything goes that's related to dairy.

Financial topics, Employee Management, Expansion and Permitting

Adding a new barn or parlor? Want to upgrade your cow cooling system? Debate the merits of mats vs. sand?...

A healthy cow is a productive cow. While it's not OK to offer medical advice (unless you are a doctor), it's perfectly OK to talk about health issues or share information or ideas here.

Improving pregnancy rates, success stories, techniques, links to university information, advances in genetics, ways to increase a herd's genetic quality, etc....

Talk about shows and sales. Results, Prices, Opinions?

General discussions related to production improvement that might not fit neatly into other categories.........

Milk quality standards , SCC -- How low can you go? Keeping those somatic cell counts as low as possible....

Whether you want to talk about forage quality, storage, feedout or balancing rations, this is the place to share information about those topics.

Everything from seed selection to silage management...

Let's talk tractors and post pictures. Anything about any dairy equipment is fair game here.

Has your dairy been picketed yet? Has your coop been co-opted by activists? Animal rights groups pounding on your barn door? Share thoughts on dairy "activist" issues....

There's a growing trend toward rural families who "lifestyle" farm, perhaps with a few milk cows for family use, and maybe a garden from which produce is sold to passing city dwellers. If your milk production interest falls into this area, we hope this forum will be a place to improve your productivity too.

Here's where you can talk about practically whatever you please. This is the place to discuss current events, or anything that might not fit neatly into another general category.

The idea with this newly-renovated section is to make it a resource where dairy scientists and dairy farmers can come together to participate in some two-way conversation. Hopefully, this can help demystify some issues and perhaps create a direct link between dairy science and on-farm application. If you have research or published information you would like to share, please post it here. By posting you assume responsibility for copyright clearance.

Please feel free to post organization, university or corporate news releases here.

Please feel free to post a link to your dairy organization and share some information about your group.

If you want to post a link to your Web site or share some of your favoriote links with people, please post here.

Post your best or worst buys here. Share products that have really worked on your farm, and help others avoid those that didn't.

This one is pretty much self-explanatory. The only rules are -- don't offer anything illegal, post a desired price and take full responsibility for any transactions. Pictures of the item for sale would be a good idea.

If you are looking for help, or looking for a job, please post here with the skills and experience you are looking for or offering. Please let us know when the position has been filled and we'll remove your post. Thanks!

If you are offering a dairy-related product or service, please feel free to post information here. This could include brochures, links to product Web pages, research, photos, whatever you please. If you post, please subscribe to your thread so you will get an automatic notice if somebody posts a question or response in your thread. NOTE: We ask you to limit promotional posts to a single listing of your product or service offering in this forum. SPAM posts will get you banned, and repeating a product offer all over the forum will get you an offer to become our first advertiser. Please don't abuse this free service. Thanks!