Dairy herds have become markedly older in recent months. While this is an immediate result of a tight national dairy heifer supply and sky-high prices for dairy-beef calves, the reason dairy farmers can make the choice to keep cows in production longer is because of improved genetics and better management decisions. Longevity is a matter of profitability on dairy farms; keeping cows sufficiently productive means they return more on the investment of their rearing. Geneticists

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Fertility in your herd is vital to productivity. Monitoring factors that influence heifer fertility will aid in a profitable dairy. The...