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Fresno, CA

I’m not loving on Fresno. So far I’ve endured the worst Caesar salad ever, a 12″ TV, and a conversation among patrons in the restaurant last night so stupid that it’s permanently affected my ability to do my job. At … Continue reading

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Science by the Pound

The May 2007 issue of Journal of Dairy Science is out. It contains 2 papers on which I’m first author and 1 on which I’m a co-author: VanRaden, P. M., M. E. Tooker, J. B. Cole, G. R. Wiggans, and … Continue reading

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At the Sixth Mid-Atlantic Dairy Grazing Conference

After a lively morning of station reports we headed for Goldsboro, NC, to attend the Sixth Mid-Atlantic Dairy Grazing Conference. It consisted largely of eating, with a speaker or two and a farm tour sandwiched (heh!) in between the meals. … Continue reading

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Stillbirth proofs seen in the wild

The August 2006 bull books, basically catalogs used to sell semen, are out. The top Accelerated Genetics Holstein bull for TPI (Holstein Association USA‘s Type-Production Index) is J-K-R BW-Marshll Billion-ET: Note the numbers to the lower left that are circled … Continue reading

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