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It pays to pay attention<br />
to detail<br />
As a year of extreme weather events<br />
in 2013 gave way to an early 2014<br />
polar freeze of record low tempera-<br />
tures in dairy regions throughout<br />
the U.S., farmers and ranchers<br />
showed their high levels of dedica-<br />
tion to cattle care.<br />
From feeding to milking to calving and<br />
calf care, every activity brought new sets<br />
of challenges during prolonged days of<br />
extreme low temps. In fact, every season<br />
brings its own set of challenges -- espe-<br />
cially for cows and heifers transitioning<br />
through calving into the milking herd.<br />
If it’s not the winter cold and ice or the<br />
springtime time mud, it’s the summer heat<br />
to watch out for.<br />
When Mother Nature dishes out her<br />
worst, dairy farmers are at their best. “It<br />
takes a lot to keep 270 cows warm in this<br />
weather,” said Berks County, Pa. dairy-<br />
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<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=7"> Guest Editorial Past Dairy Market Behavior No Lon</a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=8"> Reader Service No. 5882</a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=9"> M AG BAG IS A THE AG B</a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=10"> ORE THAN JUST BAGGERS. COMPLETE FEED STORAGE SYS</a>
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<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=12"> Reader Service No. 1053</a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=13"> Feature Story of contamination in 24 hours, alt</a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=14"> Hydromer, Inc. An Excellent Altern</a>
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<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=19"> Feature Story Managing Alfalfa Under Pivot Irriga</a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=20"> T-L Irrigation contains more than half the roots</a>
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<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=23"> Reader Service No. 599 Parts Dept. </a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=24"> Herd Health </a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=25"> Low Input – Low Impact Pasteurizer Making th</a>
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<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=29"> Cover Story The Divine Road Less Traveled </a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=30"> Spectrum Seed “You can hardly find one p</a>
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<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=34"> Dairy News Briefs Alta Seeds PROMOTION Plant</a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=35"> KEEPING YOU CLEAN AND EFFICIENT SINCE 1994 </a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=36"> Dairy News Briefs Tools for TEAMS Penn State</a>
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<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=43"> Reader Service No. 630 Experience the Freedom A</a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=44"> Udder Stuff Dairy News Bri</a>
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<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=47"> Reader Service No. 5605</a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=48"> Comfortable - Cows are conndent and exhibit stro</a>
<a title="American Dairymen April 2014 page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a1c7bbbc?page=49"> The Highly Digest ible Effective Fiber f or Dairy</a>
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