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Dairy Farming in New England

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Typical rural New England scene

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Farms are family legacies

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Housing – western U.S.

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Confinement housing – stanchion barn

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Cow in stanchion

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Individual animal attention in stanchion

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Comfort stalls

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Feeding in barn

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Robotic feeder

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Loose housing

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Group housing - calves

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Free stalls with mattresses

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Free stall barn – large farm

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Free stall barn – small farm

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Feeds and feeding

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Feed bunk in free stall barn

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Horizontal silo

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Horizontal silo – plastic cover

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Cured silage

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Fence line feeder

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Pasture

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Milking

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Milking parlor

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Full bulk tank

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Calf and heifer raising

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Group pen and individual tied newborns

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Calf pens

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Individual calf stalls

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Elevated individual calf stalls

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Calf hutches

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Calf hutches – large Western farm

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Manure management

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Barn cleaner emptying into manure spreader

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Manure spreader

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Health

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Clinical veterinary service

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In-clinic veterinary laboratory

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Common veterinary products

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Infusing an antibiotic for mastitis

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Field surgery preparation

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Dairy production medicine

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Monitoring for subclinical disease

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Aspects of dairy production medicine

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Computer records

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Guidelines for extra-label drug use

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Thank you

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