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1 month ago | 
hoards.com | Abby Bauer
I’ve been lucky to attend countless agricultural conferences and meetings as an editor. An agenda full of intriguing sessions is key to gathering magazine content, but interactions during the less structured parts of the day are when the most enriching conversations often take place. Mealtimes are a prime time for dialogue. After visiting the buffet line, your next move includes a scan of the banquet hall with your lunch plate in hand, searching for a seat.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
supplysidefbj.com | Abby Bauer
Innovation in food and beverage is relentless, yet success is anything but guaranteed. Sensory and consumer science can help bridge the divide, providing data-driven insights that lead to consumer delight. To understand how these results shape product development, let’s break down the two key disciplines at play. You can think of sensory and consumer science as two sides of the same coin, each serving distinct purposes in product development.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
supplysidefbj.com | Abby Bauer
A civil engineer turned food scientist, Bauer brings her strong analytical eye to every project, helping translate technical sensory and consumer learning into insightful, actionable recommendations for multiple audiences.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
hoards.com | Abby Bauer
The importance of high-quality colostrum as a calf’s first meal is widely known and well documented. Now, newer research and anecdotal evidence shows that the value of colostrum extends past that single meal. Many farms feed one or two servings of colostrum and then switch calves over to whole milk or milk replacer at 12 hours or 24 hours of age, noted Michael Steele during the December Hoard’s Dairyman webinar.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
hoards.com | Abby Bauer
Our journey into 2025 has just begun, but from a business standpoint, dairy farmers are always looking ahead at milk prices, feed costs, and other farm expenses. These factors and many more affect a farm’s profitability and future viability. Changes throughout the year could greatly impact a dairy’s bottom line, but farmers can use the data we have available now to make decisions in the short term.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
hoards.com | Abby Bauer
Transition cows go through many physical changes in the three weeks before calving and the three weeks after. At that same time, milk production is often soaring, and some cows can already be producing 100 pounds of milk or more by the end of the first week of lactation, noted veterinarian Jessica McArt. “Lactation initiates massive changes in nutrient and micromineral demands,” said McArt during the October Hoard’s Dairyman webinar.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
letsgopioneers.com | Emma Carlson |Kierney McDonald |Bri Gartner |Abby Bauer
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. – In front of a record-setting crowd, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville volleyball team (19-3) rallied for a 3-2 win after dropping the first two sets against Cornell (7-11) at the annual Yell Night match Friday inside Williams Fieldhouse. The attendance for Friday's match came in at 1745, the highest mark in Pioneers Yell Night history. The number is also the best in program history since attendance began being tracked, surpassing the previous record of 1252 set in 2011.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
letsgopioneers.com | Emma Carlson |Kierney McDonald |Bri Gartner |Abby Bauer
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Platteville volleyball team (13-2) hosted a pair of matches on Friday and picked up two wins in the process, sweeping Wartburg (10-4) to being the day before beating Augustana (Ill.) (6-6) 3-1 to close out the day inside Williams Fieldhouse. Team Stats PLATTEVILLE, Wis.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
hoards.com | Abby Bauer
A mixed bag of weather conditions this planting and growing season will likely translate into corn silage of varying quality. We don’t need to panic, according to Rock River Laboratory’s John Goeser, but we should anticipate the potential for feed hygiene issues. During the August Hoard’s Dairyman webinar, Goeser, who serves as the director of nutritional research and innovation for Rock River Laboratory and as a dairy consultant, offered advice on how to harvest and feed this year’s corn crop.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
hoards.com | Abby Bauer
small but growing number of dairies are using rotary milking parlors to enhance milking speed and efficiency. In this set-up, cows ride on a rotating platform while being milked. This reduces the distance milkers need to cover when prepping cows and attaching the milking units. A rotary parlor consists of many individual components that come together to make a system. Last year, GEA North America moved its manufacturing of rotary parlor platforms to its site in Galesville, Wis.
