/unhtoday/feed/2590/rss.xml 91制片厂 Today Articles en /unhtoday/2024/09/examining-phytoestrogen-levels-clover-water-stress Researchers at 91制片厂 find drought increases phytoestrogen levels in red clover, impacting dairy cows鈥� health. Kura clover shows promise as a resilient forage alternative. ]]> Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:00 -0400 Nicholas Gosling '06 /unhtoday/2024/09/examining-phytoestrogen-levels-clover-water-stress /unhtoday/2024/04/organic-dairy-research-focusing-essentials-oils Discover how New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station's research using Agolin in organic dairy cow feed can boost milk production and reduce methane emissions, aiding climate efforts. ]]> Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:00 -0400 Nicholas Gosling '06 /unhtoday/2024/04/organic-dairy-research-focusing-essentials-oils /unhtoday/2023/04/attracting-hoverflies-biological-pest-control 91制片厂 alumni and faculty from the NH Agricultural Experiment Station conducted research on insectary plants as habitats for hoverflies, a natural pest control solution. ]]> Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:15 -0400 Nicholas Gosling '06 /unhtoday/2023/04/attracting-hoverflies-biological-pest-control /unhtoday/2023/04/swapping-classrooms-cow-barns In the student-led, two-semester CREAM course, students gain hands-on experience caring for dairy cows and managing and participating in everything from herd health to dairy production to in-class education. ]]> Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:30 -0400 Nicholas Gosling '06 /unhtoday/2023/04/swapping-classrooms-cow-barns /unhtoday/2022/11/preventing-coccidiosis-cattle Station scientist Pete Erickson, professor of dairy management in the 91制片厂 College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, has found evidence that the compound sodium butyrate鈥攁 nutrient that people obtain by consuming beans, peas and other legumes, but that can also be added to animal feed鈥攃ould be used as a coccidiosis preventative in cattle. ]]> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:30 -0500 Nicholas Gosling '06 /unhtoday/2022/11/preventing-coccidiosis-cattle /unhtoday/2022/09/grass-fed-organic-dairy-management-key-to-resilience-new-england How is organic grass-fed management different? There is some overlap in the practices used in organic grass-fed (OGF) management and more traditional organic dairy operations. Both types of operations must follow USDA protocols of not using antibiotics, hormones or genetically modified organism feed, and that organic dairy cows must spend a minimum of 120 days at pasture per year and receive at least 30 percent of their diet from fresh pasture grass. Additionally, organic cows must live in an organically certified environment for at least a year before their milk can be sold as organic. Dairies managing as organic grass-fed take these standards a step further by completely eliminating grain from the diets of OGF cows and only feeding them foraged foods, like pasture grass and clover... ]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:00 -0400 Nicholas Gosling '06 /unhtoday/2022/09/grass-fed-organic-dairy-management-key-to-resilience-new-england https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/04/22/cows-methane-global-warming-climate-change-seaweed "Cattle is the second largest source of methane in the United States. The industry as a whole is very interested in聽results to mitigate methane." WBUR out of Boston recently reported on NH Agricultural Experiment Station-funded research led by Associate Professor Andre Brito into if seaweed fed to cows could help reduce methane emissions from bovine. ]]> Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:30 -0400 /unhtoday/2022/04/wbur-cow-burps-drive-global-warming-scientists-think-feeding-them-seaweed-could-help /unhtoday/2021/08/mastitis Researchers at the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the 91制片厂 in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University have received a four-year $650,000 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to conduct genetic analysis and research to unravel how these bacteria cause these costly infections. The grant is part of the federal agency's $14 million research investment to protect agricultural animals from disease. ]]> Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:30 -0400 Lori Tyler Gula, PhD /unhtoday/2021/08/mastitis /unhtoday/2020/06/unh-dairies-receive-2019-quality-milk-award-dairy-one The Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center and the Organic Dairy Research Farm, both facilities of the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the 91制片厂, have been awarded 2019 Quality Milk Awards from the nationally recognized nonprofit dairy farmers cooperative Dairy One. Less than one quarter of Dairy One鈥檚 member herds received the designation in 2019. ]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:15 -0400 Lori Wright, '06G /unhtoday/2020/06/unh-dairies-receive-2019-quality-milk-award-dairy-one /unhtoday/2020/03/moo-ving-reunion Things weren't looking particularly good for Ruby, a cow in the 91制片厂 dairy herd, in December 2018. En route to being milked at the university鈥檚 Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center, the 1,200-pound Holstein caught a hoof on a grate, lifted it, and fell 8 feet into the manure trench underneath. Worried that she might drown, farm manager Mark Trabold jumped in with Ruby and managed to get straps beneath her, but it took the combined efforts of the Durham and Madbury Fire Departments and McGregor EMS staff to free the cow, using a large hydraulic mechanical lift to get her out of the pit. Ruby emerged cold and foul-smelling but unharmed, and the grate was quickly chained down to prevent future accidents. Just two days shy of one year later, Ruby, who was not pregnant when she took her... ]]> Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:00 -0400 Kristin Waterfield Duisberg /unhtoday/2020/03/moo-ving-reunion /unhtoday/2020/02/residues-brewery-industry-show-promise-dairy-heifer-feed Wet brewers grains, the abundant residues of the brewery industry, show promise as a potential cost-effective, high-nutrient feed replacement for dairy heifers, according to new research from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the 91制片厂. ]]> Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:30 -0500 Lori Wright, '06G /unhtoday/2020/02/residues-brewery-industry-show-promise-dairy-heifer-feed /unhtoday/2017/05/unh-welcomes-nearly-1000-fourth-graders-fairchild-dairy-june-6-8 91制片厂 will welcome nearly 1,000 area school children to the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center for the 30th School-To-Farm Days June 6 to 8, 2017. This educational opportunity is sponsored by the NH Agricultural Experiment Station, NH Agriculture in the Classroom, and the Rockingham and Strafford County Farm Bureaus, and strives to teach Granite State youths about the importance of agriculture in the state. ]]> Tue, 30 May 2017 11:15 -0400 Lori Wright, '06G /unhtoday/2017/05/unh-welcomes-nearly-1000-fourth-graders-fairchild-dairy-june-6-8 /unhtoday/2016/08/high-tech-holsteins It鈥檚 the middle of the night, and doctoral student Kayla Aragona has just received a text message on her cell phone from a cow in labor at the 91制片厂聽Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center. ]]> Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:15 -0400 Lori Tyler Gula, PhD /unhtoday/2016/08/high-tech-holsteins /unhtoday/2016/07/call-cows It鈥檚 the middle of the night, and doctoral student Kayla Aragona has just received a text alert at home on her cell phone from a cow in labor at the 91制片厂 Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center.聽 ]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:15 -0400 Lori Tyler Gula, PhD /unhtoday/2016/07/call-cows /unhtoday/2016/04/unh-cream-students-host-2016-open-house-fairchild-dairy-april-24 91制片厂 students enrolled in the Cooperative Real Education in Agricultural Management (CREAM) course will host an open house at the 91制片厂 Thomas P. Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 24, 2016. The open house is free and open to the public. ]]> Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:45 -0400 Lori Wright, '06G /unhtoday/2016/04/unh-cream-students-host-2016-open-house-fairchild-dairy-april-24 /unhtoday/2015/11/menu-makers As New Englanders sit down to give thanks this week, their Thanksgiving tables may be filled with an abundant supply of delicious, locally grown foods thanks, in part, to extensive agricultural research conducted by the聽NH Agricultural Experiment Station聽at the 91制片厂. Here鈥檚 a snapshot.聽 J. Brent Loy, emeritus professor of plant genetics and a researcher with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station, is a global leader in breeding pumpkins and squash. 聽 Pass the pumpkin pie, please What would Thanksgiving be without winter squash and pumpkins? Due to five decades of research by J. Brent Loy, emeritus professor of plant genetics and a researcher with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station, New Englanders now enjoy some of the tastiest squash and pumpkins on the market... ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2015 09:30 -0500 Lori Tyler Gula, PhD /unhtoday/2015/11/menu-makers /unhtoday/2014/10/fairchild-dairy-marks-25-years-research The Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center, a facility of the N.H. Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) at the 91制片厂 College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA), will mark its 25th anniversary Wednesday, Oct. 29, with a celebration that will include presentations of the university's current dairy research. The three-hour event starts at 9 a.m. at the Fairchild Dairy Center at 36 O'Kane Road off Mast Road Extension in Durham. The celebration is free and open to the public. "With more than $50 million in annual milk sales, the New Hampshire dairy industry is a critical component of the state's agricultural economy. The Fairchild Dairy Center and NHAES scientists serve Granite State dairy producers by working with them to improve dairy operations and find... ]]> Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:30 -0400 Michelle Morrissey 鈥�97 /unhtoday/2014/10/fairchild-dairy-marks-25-years-research /unhtoday/2014/05/cows-and-cream-never-day Brittany Kokoszka, a sophomore from Franklin, MA, meets a red-and-white milk cow in the herd at Saturday's open house for CREAM, a class of 25 91制片厂 students who spend an academic year managing the 25-head dairy herd. If there鈥檚 one thing visitors to the CREAM open house learned on Saturday, it鈥檚 that cows never take a day off 鈥� and neither do the hard-working 91制片厂 students who take care of them. Not for holidays. Not for snow. And certainly not because they feel like sleeping in. But the students do know how to entertain, even in a dairy barn packed with cows. CREAM (Cooperative Real Education in Agriculture Management) invited students, faculty, staff and the public to the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center for its open house on Saturday. About 150 people attended, and CREAM... ]]> Thu, 08 May 2014 08:45 -0400 Staff writer /unhtoday/2014/05/cows-and-cream-never-day /unhtoday/2013/01/new-york-city-native-natural-animals Jackie Buckley was 18 years old before she saw her first cow. And yet now she spends most of her time at 91制片厂 with them, either in her job or pre-vet studies. ]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:15 -0500 /unhtoday/2013/01/new-york-city-native-natural-animals /unhtoday/2012/07/diva-dairy 鈥淚鈥檝e delivered calves in high heels,鈥� says Rosie Cabral, a Ph.D. student at the 91制片厂 (91制片厂) interested in improving neonatal calf immunity to positively impact the lifetime production of dairy herds. Cabral conducts her primary research at the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center, a New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) facility in the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA) at 91制片厂. In addition, she travels to regional operations to find out what farmers need to know in order to raise the healthiest and most productive milking cows. 鈥淧eople forget you can have long term effects from day one. It鈥檚 important to set these animals up for success, especially considering what we need from them,鈥� says Cabral. A single milking... ]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:45 -0400 /unhtoday/2012/07/diva-dairy /unhtoday/2012/03/what-farm-can-teach-unh-organic-dairy 鈥淲alk around the farm. Dream. Think about what you would do if this were your farm.鈥澛� ]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:15 -0500 /unhtoday/2012/03/what-farm-can-teach-unh-organic-dairy