Purdue Dairy Digest is a podcast series, created by Purdue Extension Animal Scientists, designed to be a resource for industry information. A new podcast will be available every other week for free download by noon on Wednesday. Each podcast will run about two minutes and will include both information directed to dairy farmers and some general information for the public.
Every first and third Wednesday of the month, Purdue Extension Dairy Specialists, Dr. Tamilee Nennich, Dr. Mike Schutz, and others, will speak about topics important to both producers and consumers to help bridge the gap between the two. Podcasts will include information on general dairy topics, management issues, animal welfare, updates on upcoming conferences and meetings and more.
The podcasts are intended to be used and shared by producers and others in agriculture. Each podcast has a 15 second introduction and 5 seconds of silence, followed by approximately 90 seconds of information. Podcasts can also be accessed for free on iTunes by searching “Purdue Dairy Digest”. We hope that you enjoy the Purdue Dairy Digest.
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| Number |
Episode |
| 1 |
Mycotoxins |
| 2 |
Net Merit Selection Index |
| 3 |
Forage Harvesting and Dairy Diets |
| 18 |
Somatic Cell Counts- The Situation |
| 17 |
Dairy management highlighted at Kentuckiana Dairy Exchange |
| 20 |
The Importance of Your Somatic Count |
| 19 |
Colostrum in your Dairying Program |
| 21 |
Harvesting and Storing Silages |
| 22 |
Controling Environmental Mastitis |
| 24 |
Cooling Dry Cows |
| 25 |
Farm Safety |
| 26 |
Antibiotic Residues in Milk |
| 23 |
Controlling Contagious Mastitis |
| 27 |
Crossbreeding in the Dairy Industry |
| 28 |
Zearalenone and Feeding Dairy Heifers |
| 29 |
Tail Docking |
| 30 |
Raw Milk |
| 31 |
Fall Manure Applications |
| 32 |
Jack Albright-Pioneer Dairy Producer |
| 33 |
Heifer Research Update |
| 34 |
Grazing Genetics |
| 35 |
The Carbon Footprint of Dairy |
| 36 |
Winter Calf Care/Keeping Colustrum Usable |
| 37 |
Milking in Cold Weather |
| 38 |
Milk Replacer Feeding Programs |
| 39 |
Changing Consumer Preferences |
| 40 |
The Transition Cow |
| 41 |
Indiana Livestock, Forage, and Grain Forum |
| 42 |
Manure Management Record-Keeping |
| 43 |
Fatty Liver Disease |
| 44 |
Dairy Beef Quality Assurance |
| 45 |
2011 Indiana Regional Dairy Meetings |
| 46 |
Automatic Milking Systems |
| 47 |
Birds and your Dairy |
| 48 |
High Corn Prices and Your Dairy |
| 50 |
Dairy Cattle and Drug Residues |
| 49 |
Replacement Heifer Research Update |
| 51 |
National Dairy FARM Program |
| 52 |
Feed Shrink and Potential Feed Losses |
| 53 |
The Dairy Checkoff |
| 54 |
Dairy Cattle Diets |
| 55 |
Dairy Consumer Preferences |
| 56 |
Lameness |
| 57 |
Rubber Matting |
| 58 |
Potassium in Dairy Cattle Diets |
| 59 |
Dietary Fiber in Dairy Rations |
| 60 |
Updating the Somatic Cell Count Situation |
| 61 |
Milk Quality Tests |
| 62 |
Happy Memorial Day |
| 63 |
Your Cow's Medicine Cabinet |
| 64 |
2011 Kentuckyiana Dairy Exchange |
| 65 |
Role of Protein in Dairy Cattle Diets Part 1 |
| 66 |
Role of Protein in Dairy Cattle Diets Part 2 |
| 67 |
Happy Independence Day!! |
| 68 |
Reducing Heat Stress |
| 69 |
Ready, Aim, Inject! |
| 70 |
Precision Dairying |
| 71 |
Running of the Bulls? |
| 72 |
Bull Safety |
| 73 |
Check that Forage-Nitrates in Forages |
| 75 |
Corn Silage Harvesting Tips |
| 74 |
Hold that Trailer!! |
| 76 |
Happy Labor Day! |
| 77 |
Standard Plate Counts |
| 78 |
Preliminary Incubation Counts |
| 79 |
Lab Pasteurization Counts |
| 80 |
Fall Manure Management |
| 81 |
Indiana Fertilizer Applicator Certification |
| 82 |
Feed Efficiency |
| 83 |
Cow Tipping |
| 84 |
Anaerobic Digestion |
| 85 |
Feeding Heifers DDGs |
| 86 |
Dairy Breeds in Black and White |
| 87 |
Happy Thanksgiving! |
| 88 |
Preparing Your Dairy for Winter |
| 89 |
Black and White, and Red All Over |
| 90 |
Holiday on a Dairy Farm |
| 91 |
Assessing your Human Resources |
| 93 |
Happy Holidays!! |
| 94 |
Motivating Employees |
| 95 |
Keeping Records on your Dairy Operation |
| 96 |
Indiana Spring Dairy Meetings |
| 97 |
Barriers to Communication |
| 98 |
Dairy Facillities |
| 99 |
Cultural Sensitivity for Employees |
| 100 |
Dairy Judging |
| 101 |
Managing Farm and Family |
| 102 |
DCAD prevents milk fever in dairy diets |
| 103 |
Prioritizing Management Time |
| 104 |
Milk Urea Nitrogen |
| 105 |
Cooling Cows in the Spring |
| 106 |
BMR Hybrids |
| 107 |
Automatic Calf Feeders |
| 108 |
Milk's Freezing Point |
| 109 |
Pasteurization's 150th Anniversary |
| 110 |
Forage Maturity |
| 111 |
Milk Feeding Study |
| 112 |
Body Condition Scoring Dairy Cows |
| 113 |
Water Intake is Critical |
| 114 |
Knowing Your Consumers Preferences in Important |
| 115 |
Happy Memorial Day |
| 116 |
Consumer Views on Dairy Product Attributes |
| 117 |
Fluid Milk Purchasing Trends |
| 118 |
Indiana's New CFO Rules |
| 119 |
Yogurt and ice cream purchases by consumers |
| 120 |
Happy Independence Day!! |
| 121 |
The Dairy Digest Turns 100!! |
| 122 |
Drought Stratagies for Dairy Cattle |
| 123 |
Consumer Labeling and Decision Making |
| 124 |
Heat Stress in Dairy Calves |
| 125 |
Year of the Dairy Cow |
| 126 |
Food Safety and Import vs Domestic Products |
| 127 |
Coping with Aflatoxins |
| 128 |
The Fermentation When Making Silage |
| 129 |
Happy Labor Day |
| 130 |
Decisions for treating mastitis |
| 131 |
Feed Delivery Methods for Dairy Heifers |
| 132 |
Energy Audits and your Dairy |
| 133 |
Dairy Bedding |
| 134 |
Silage Management |
| 135 |
Comprehensive Nutrient Management Programs |
| 136 |
Making Decisions in Volatile Times |
| 137 |
Dry Cow Treatment |
| 138 |
Willingness to Pay for Yogurt Production Attributes |
| 139 |
Decision Traps |
| 140 |
Happy Thanksgiving |
| 141 |
Supplementing Potassium to Dairy Cows |
| 142 |
Food Safety and Animal Welfare Perceptions |
| 143 |
Condensed Distiller Soulbles |
| 144 |
Milk for Santa |
| 145 |
Merry Christmas! |
| 146 |
Happy New Year |
| 147 |
New Year's Resolutions |
| 148 |
Meeting Updates |
| 149 |
Are You Willing to Handle Raw Meat? |
| 150 |
Cow Hygiene Scoring |
| 151 |
Ropey Milk |
| 152 |
Shopping for Ice Cream-Consumer Preferences |
| 153 |
Dairy Beef Quality and Antibiotics |
| 154 |
The North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge |
| 155 |
Needle Selection and Care |
| 156 |
Indiana Fertilizer Use Rule |
| 157 |
Fresh Cow Monitoring |
| 158 |
Evaluating Forage Supplies |
| 159 |
Forage Stands |
| 160 |
Causes of Hypocalcemia (Milk Fever) |
| 161 |
Treatment and Prevention of Hypocalcemia (Milk Fever) |
| 162 |
Bedding Dairy Cows on Sand |
| 163 |
Pricing Corn Silage |
| 164 |
Vegatative Filter Strips |
| 165 |
Waterbeds for your Cows |
| 166 |
Contracts for Raising Dairy Heifers |
| 167 |
Happy Memorial Day |
| 168 |
Using Recycled Manure as Bedding |
| 169 |
Pack Barns |
| 170 |
Forage Particle Sizing |
| 171 |
Kentuckiana Dairy Exchange |
| 172 |
Happy Independence Day |
| 173 |
Effects of Long Day Lighting |
| 174 |
Considerations for Compost Bedded Pack Barns |
| 175 |
Managing the Compost Pack Barn |
| 176 |
Preparing to Harvest Corn Silage |
| 177 |
Grain Inclusion Levels for Dairy Heifers |
| 178 |
Its Milk Feeding Time |
| 179 |
Dairy Outlook |
| 180 |
Dry Cow Diets |
| 181 |
Happy Labor Day |
| 182 |
The Changing Dairy Industry Structure |
| 183 |
Using Sexed Semen in you Dairy Herd |
| 184 |
World Dairy Expo |
| 185 |
Preparing for AI, semen handling techniques |
| 186 |
Supplementing Biotin to Dairy Cows |
| 187 |
Calving Procedures |
| 188 |
Conception Rates vs Pregnancy Rates |
| 189 |
Niacin |
| 190 |
Strategies to Improve Preganacy Rates |
| 191 |
Winter Calf Feeding |
| 192 |
Happy Thanksgiving |
| 193 |
Folate in Dairy Rations |
| 194 |
The Importance of Choline in Dairy Rations |
| 195 |
What's up with this Year's Corn Silage Crop? |
| 196 |
Merry Christmas! |
| 197 |
Happy New Year |
| 198 |
2014 Dairy Meetings |
| 199 |
Calf Bedding Choices |
| 200 |
Calf Nesting Scores |
| 201 |
Automatic Calf Feeders |
| 202 |
Voluntary Waiting Period |
| 203 |
Respiratory Health of Calves |
| 204 |
Heifer Breeding Programs |
| 205 |
Risk Management in Marketing |
| 206 |
Heifer Management Programs |
| 207 |
Birds and Your Dairy Farm |
| 208 |
Toxicants and Bird Control |
| 209 |
Body Condition Scoring-2014 |
| 210 |
Purdue Legacy Dairy Sale |
| 211 |
Evaluating Forages in the Spring |
| 212 |
Integrated Bird Management |
| 213 |
Evaluating Forage Quality and Forage Inventories |
| 214 |
Ketosis in Dairy Cows |
| 215 |
Predictive Transmitting Abilities |
| 216 |
Traits for Genetic Selection |
| 217 |
What does Reliability Mean in Genetic Terms? |
| 218 |
Honor Memorial Day |
| 219 |
Genetic Selection Indexes |
| 220 |
US Selection Indices |
| 221 |
2014-KentuckIana Dairy Exchange Tour |
| 222 |
Maintain Your Milking Equipment |
| 223 |
Have a Happy Independence Day! |
| 224 |
Eliminating Biofilms in the Dairy Operation |
| 225 |
Dairy Producers and the Beef Checkoff |
| 226 |
Milk vs Milk Replacer |
| 227 |
Silage Inoculants |
| 228 |
Results of a Calf Starter Study |
| 229 |
State Fair! |
| 230 |
Extension's Cenntenial |
| 231 |
Happy Labor Day!!! |
| 232 |
Cow Culling |
| 233 |
Water |
| 234 |
Send Your Cull Cows to Rehab |
| 235 |
Heifer Research Feeding NFC Diets |
| 236 |
Total Mixed Rations |
| 237 |
Indiana State Forage Field Day |
| 238 |
Margin Protection Meetings
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| 239 |
Milking Parlor Etiquette |
| 240 |
Locomotion |
| 241 |
Reducing Calf Stress |
| 242 |
Genetic Base Change |
| 243 |
Grazing Merit Index |
| 244 |
Happy Thanksgiving!! |
| 245 |
Its Half-time, time to rest. . . Not! |
| 246 |
Silage Kernal Processing |
| 247 |
Research into Shade and Production |
| 248 |
Merry Christmas |
| 249 |
Happy New Year |
| 250 |
Upcoming Dairy Meetings |
| 251 |
Are Parasites Robbing You? |
| 252 |
Changes Afoot |
| 253 |
Tempurature Monitoring in Dairy Cattle |
| 254 |
California Mastitis Test |
| 255 |
Colstrum Replacers |
| 256 |
Farm Succession Planning |
| 257 |
Setting goals for Your Milking Operation |
| 258 |
Selecting the Right Group Size for Your Calves |
| 259 |
Feeding Dry Cows |
| 260 |
Genomic Selection |
| 261 |
Genomic Testing |
| 262 |
Genomic Improvement |
| 263 |
Forage Considerations in a Wet Spring |
| 264 |
Flooding and your Dairy Farm |
| 265 |
Getting Ready for Corn Silage |
| 266 |
Safety at Silage Cutting Time |
| 267 |
The Dangers of Silage Gas |
| 268 |
Results of the Milk Balancer Study |
| 269 |
Perception is Reality |
| 270 |
Animal Agriculture Perceptions |
| 271 |
Dairy's Reputation |
| 272 |
California Mastitis Test Today |
| 273 |
CMT Scoring |
| 274 |
Santa and Milk |
| 275 |
New Year's Resolutions |
| 276 |
Saving in Tough Milk Times |
| 277 |
Dairy Outlook 2016 |
| 278 |
Indiana's Outstanding Producers |
| 279 |
Trends in Indiana Dairy Farms |
| 280 |
Indiana Dairy Farm Number Trends |
| 281 |
Spring Forage Inventory |
| 282 |
Forage Inventory Planning |
| 283 |
Milk Processing Advances in Indiana |
| 284 |
Fan Maintenance and Efficency |
| 285 |
Cow Cooling |
| 286 |
Tail Switch Trimming |
| 287 |
Summer Mastitis Control |
| 288 |
Fly Control |
| 289 |
Fly Control Practices |
| 290 |
Biological Fly Control |
| 291 |
Chemical Fly Control |
| 292 |
Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) |
| 293 |
VCPR and others in the Veterinary Word Soup |
| 294 |
Beware of Manure Gasses |
| 295 |
Skid Steer Loader Safety Tips |
| 296 |
Be Careful When Using the Skid Loader More Tips |
| 297 |
Healthy Santa |
| 298 |
2017 Dairy Outlook |
| 299 |
Cold Weather and Your Calves |
| 300 |
Avoid Needle Sticks |
| 301 |
Outstanding Dairy Producers |
| 302 |
Dryoff Methods |
| 303 |
Selective Dryoff Therapy |
| 304 |
Days Dry |
| 305 |
Calf Care and Future Milk Yield |
| 306 |
Genomic Accuracy |
| 307 |
Genetic Gains with Genomics |
| 308 |
Forages and Inoculants |
| 309 |
Heat Stress |
| 310 |
Heat Stress and Dry Cows |
| 311 |
Getting Ready to Go To The Show |
| 312 |
Southern Corn Rust |
| 313 |
Selection for Gestation Length |
| 314 |
Genetics Of Gestation Length |
| 315 |
300th Anniversary Edition-TBD |
| 316 |
The Mycotoxin Don |
| 317 |
Factors that Contribute to low Colustrum Yield |
| 318 |
Low Lignin Alfalfa |
| 319 |
Water Quality and your Herd |
| 320 |
Milk and Christmas |
| 321 |
Rumen Microbes, its Stability and your Cow |
| 322 |
Dairy Consumption and News about IN Regional Dairy Meetings |
| 323 |
The Dairy Checkoff |
| 324 |
Update from the Indiana Regional Dairy Meetings |
| 325 |
Feeding Fat Supplements |
| 326 |
Dean Foods and the Milk Supply |
| 327 |
The Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference is coming up soon |
| 328 |
Ensiling Corn Silage |
| 329 |
Body Condition Scoring and its effect of Reproduction |
| 330 |
The Impact That Inflammation has on Liver Function |
| 331 |
Farewell Mike Schutz |
| 332 |
California Milk Marketing Order and its effects |
| 333 |
The Science Behind A2 Milk |
| 334 |
Reminders about Corn Silage Harvest |
| 335 |
Milking Frequency |
| 336 |
Consumer Perceptions of Milk |
| 337 |
Value of Dairy Products for an Aging Population |
| 338 |
Dairy Tariff Relief |
| 339 |
USMCA |
| 340 |
Lung Ultrasonography to Assess Health in Calves |
| 341 |
So Much Cheese!!! |
| 342 |
Photoperiod in Milk Production |
| 343 |
Facial Recognition in the Dairy |
| 344 |
The Use of Genomics to Predict Future Health Outcomes in Dairy Cattle |
| 345 |
The Optimal Range for Milk Urea Nitrogen in Dairy Cattle |
| 346 |
Offshore Dairy farming |
| 347 |
Take Homes from Indiana Dairy Forum |
| 348 |
Fever and nasal discharge, must be pneumonia? |
| 349 |
Why are dairy producers using beef semen? |
| 350 |
Now is the time to think about heat abatement |
| 351 |
What to Look for When Alfalfa is Scouted in the Early Spring
|
| 352 |
Update from Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference |
| 353 |
Flies are not a cow's best friend |
| 354 |
The Rise of Animal Rights Activism on Dairy Farms |
| 355 |
What if Cows Were Jet Lagged Every Three Days? |
| 356 |
Disaster areas, prevented planting acres and the Dairy Producer |
| 357 |
Employee Relations on the Farm |
| 358 |
Vitamin Recheck |
| 359 |
Intramammary Antibiotic_Use |
| 360 |
Annual Global Agenda on Sustainable Livestock |
| 361 |
The World Dairy Expo |
| 362 |
SubClinical Hypocalcemia |
| 363 |
Dean Foods Bankruptcy |
| 364 |
Digital Agriculture and Dairy Cows |
| 365 |
What Calves Want at Christmas |
| 366 |
Borden Dairy Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy |
| 367 |
Starbucks and Dairy |
| 368 |
Recent Calf Nutrition and Management Research |
| 369 |
Heat Treating Colostrum |
| 370 |
Why are dairy farms dumping milk? |
| 371 |
Should I start feeding my calves milk instead of milk replacer? |
| 372 |
Can I dump milk into my manure storage? |
| 373 |
Is there an optimal cull rate? |
| 374 |
CFAP payments |
| 375 |
High Class III prices may not reflect higher milk checks |
| 376 |
In utero heat stress |
| 377 |
Hypocalcemia in Dairy Cattle |
| 378 |
Can cameras reduce mastitis? |
| 379 |
Heifer Masttitis |
| 380 |
Cholesterol Deficiency |
| 381 |
Ketosis: Is It a Disease? |
| 382 |
Can seaweed help the dairy industry become carbon neutral? |
| 383 |
Optimal bodyweight at first calving |
| 384 |
Dietary Guidelines for Americans |
| 385 |
Commodity Prices |
| 386 |
A Tour of Rumen Microbials |
| 387 |
Buttergate |
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