Today's dairy cows are far more comfortable and productive than they used to be. Dairymen strive to offer similar comforts to cows as cities offer to humans, yet the unfortunate thing is we get lambasted by society for it.
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Posts by Jason Mast
I Almost Missed Out on a Career in Agriculture
I grew up on the family dairy, but when I was in high school I worked at a sporting goods store because I've really never been fond of working with cattle. I figured that a life in the "business" world was going to be better for me. After graduating high school I planned to study business
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It’s Really Not a “Rape Rack”
PETA says these stanchions are referred to by the industry as a "rape rack" but the truth is that only animal activists refer to stanchions in that way. Let's talk about what stanchions are really all about.
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Are We Actually the Few Good Men?
What would it require for you to make a 180 degree turn against something you previously believed to be true? I'm talking about the kind of shift that rocks your world, the realization requires a significant lifestyle change, the kind of change that
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California’s Winter Climate and What it Means for Dairy Farming
California is the number one dairy state in America, and we are proud of it! Sorry Cheeseheads, the Sunshine State still has you beat. There are a lot of reasons that California ranks so highly, but possibly the biggest reason is our year round growing season. Winter in the Central Valley is dark, cold, and wet (well, hopefully wet)… Yet
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What are we to do with all the Byproducts?
Did you know that a significant amount of the food you eat has byproducts associated with it? A byproducts is something that is produced in order to provide a useful primary product. Many of these byproducts can be utilized in some way by other industries, while others cannot. One of the biggest users of agricultural byproducts in the Central Valley
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Milk Pasteurization Explained
Let’s talk about pasteurization. Pasteurization is the simple practice of heating milk to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time. There are several different formulas of temperature and time, but the desired result is the same for all of them. The goal of pasteurization is to destroy harmful pathogens in your dairy products. It was developed in the
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Activism is Real
Activism is real. I have seen several posts in our Facebook Group this week reminding me of that. Pretty much everyone who has a disagreement with conventional agriculture in any way could find fault in something I do...
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Crop Ag and Animal Ag Working Together
For years now there has been an argument against Animal Agriculture claiming that mankind could eat more efficiently if we took the animals out of the equation and we all ate plant based diets. While this may be a valid concept, it lacks a serious amount of practicality. Animal Agriculture has a very important and efficient role in feeding the
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