Best of 2024: Top articles, podcast episodes, dairy news stories of the year

Best of 2024: Top articles, podcast episodes, dairy news stories of the year

Author: Progressive Dairy editors December 31, 2024 Duration: 52:47

Join Progressive Dairy Podcast co-hosts Kimmi Devaney, Walt Cooley and Matti McBride – along with special guest David Cooper, who is the managing editor of Progressive Cattle magazine – for a recap of their favorite articles, podcast episodes and some of the biggest dairy news stories of 2024. Stay tuned to the end for an entertaining New Year's-themed round of rapid-fire questions to learn what they want to forget from the last year, New Year’s resolutions and more. 

Listen to the biosecurity episode Devaney mentions here: https://www.agproud.com/articles/59575-podcast-dr-mark-kinsel-what-dairy-producers-should-know-about-biosecurity


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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Podcast Episodes
Introducing the 2026 Nexus Innovation Award winners [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:40
This episode introduces you to the 2026 Nexus Innovation Award winners, recently recognized at the Professional Dairy Producers Business Conference. We're talking about three technologies that caught the judges' attentio…
Silage: What we do matters (Sponsored Podcast) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 12:17
Making good silage is an art and utilizing technologies can help us improve the process to deliver consistent feed to our animals. This episode is sponsored by Novonesis.
Feeding colostrum with Michael Steele [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:02
Feeding colostrum is arguably one of the most important processes on a dairy. Michael Steele of the University of Guelph joins host Matti McBride in this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast to discuss passive immuni…
Protecting your dairy amid rising insurance costs (Sponsored Podcast) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:15
With tight margins and volatile milk prices, rising insurance costs add a frustrating layer of complexity to your daily operation. In this episode, we sit down with Dan Rice, a Senior Dairy Consultant at Nationwide, to d…