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May/June 2009
New Infestation of Alfalfa Pest Found in
Northern NY, pg
2
Protein and Amino Acid Nutrition 101 - Part 3, pg 3
From the President’s Desk – Overcrowding and Public Perception, pg 4
Topdressing Alfalfa-Grass with Manure, pg 5
Vet’s Corner: Pregnancy Hard Counts, pg 6
What’s Happening on the Farm, pg 7
Improved method for detecting subclinical ketosis, pg 8
Do we Need to Condition Forage Crops Harvested for Silage?, pg 9
Applying Insecticides to Grasses and Mixed Stands, pg 12
Secrets to current production levels, pg 13
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April 2009
From the President’s Desk – Regrouping Redux, pg 2
Protein and Amino Acid Nutrition 101 - Part 2, pg 3
An April Priority: Fertilizing Forage Grasses, pg 4
Vet’s Corner: Seven Food Borne Illness Pathogens that are killed by Pasteurization, pg 5
Detecting Lameness in Tie-Stall Housed Dairy Cows, pg 6
What’s Happening on the Farm, pg 8
Positioning Corn Hybrids, pg 9
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March 2009
From the President’s Desk – Making Use of Starch Analyses, pg 3
Vet’s Corner: Is Too Much Treatment Causing DA’s?, pg 4
Protein and Amino Acid Nutrition 101: Part 1, pg 5
Dystocia in Dairy Cows, pg 6
Six steps towards providing effective feedback for your employees, pg 7
Diet Comparison: Similar Rations or Not?, pg 8
Is an Avoidance Distance Test a Reliable Measure of Welfare?, pg 8
Organic Dairies Hit Hard Times, pg 9
Corn Plant Populations, pg 10
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February 2009
From the President's Desk – Dropping Shoes and Skinning Cats. pg 2
Vet’s Corner: New Thoughts about Vaccinology, pg 3
Task Variety Helps Make Happier Workers. pg 4
Nematode Seed Treatment on the Way to Market, pg 4
Feeding Practices on
U.S.
Dairy Operations, pg 5
Regionalizing Research, pg 6
Notes from
Japan
and the Zennoh research farm, pg 7
Can Welfare Assessments have a Scientific Basis?, pg 8
To B(st) or not to B(st), pg 9
Seeding Alfalfa Grass, pg 10
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January 2009
From the President's Desk: State of the Institute 2009, cover story
2009: A good year to consider UAN?, pg 2
Barn
Building
101, pg 3
Cow response to varying levels of TMR and pasture access, pg 4
Lysine misbehaves, pg 5
Phosphorus removal of milkhouse wastewater using treatment wetlands, pg 6
Practical ruminants: gas production in the rumen, pg 7
Vet’s Corner: Evaluation of cost effective treatment of calf pneumonia, pg 8
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