Sentences with phrase «adding dairy herds»

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Organic dairy processors had recruited new organic dairy farmers to add capacity and pushed hard for them to transition to organic production before June 2007, when an organic regulatory provision that eased whole herd conversion from conventional to organic production was set to expire.

The dairy herd inventory was up 1 percent during 2017, adding 54,000 head to last year's Jan. 1 number.

We expect that dairy herd improvement associations will continue to expand the number of tests offered to diagnose diseases and pregnancy,» added Professor Barkema.

«According to our rough calculations, taking into account the wholesale value of milk, the number of two - year - old heifers added to U.S. dairy herds annually, the production advantage across the first two lactations of conceiving a daughter on the first pregnancy, and the increased probability of conceiving a daughter from sex - selected semen, suggests a gross value in the neighborhood of $ 200 million in milk production across the first two lactations alone,» the team reported.

My advice is to start with a couple of goats before expanding — either by growing your goat herd or by adding a dairy cow to the mix.