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Much of our discussions at Protekta center around preventing fresh cow milk fever. However, fresh cows aren’t the only ones who can experience milk fever-like symptoms, such as down cow syndrome. In a recent Progressive Dairy article, Protekta dai

What does spring mean to you? Longer days, more sunlight, flowers blooming, planting time, or a favorite of many producers: Letting the cows out onto fresh green grass after a long winter indoors? For cows, it means the start of higher colostrum p

Michael Steele, PhD, and his lab colleagues are asking questions and offering answers for all of you calf raisers. We were happy to sponsor Dr. Steele’s webinar addressing new developments in calf nutrition. Listen as he pinpoints common practices ri

The question of phosphorus levels in transition cow diets is gaining renewed attention, particularly with emerging research from experts like Dr. Walter Grunberg. At the recent Cornell Nutrition Conference, Dr. Grunberg shared new insights on phospho

In a recent study done at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Frizzarini et al. (2024)*, researchers compared three close-up diets and their implications on blood calcium and performance. The three diets included one diet with X-Zelit, one with ne

Rod Martin knows how efforts to mitigate milk fever have evolved over the years. He shared his decades of experiences in a recent Dairy Herd Management article and offered advice for the future. Rod, a Protekta dairy nutritionist with more than 35

Milk fever is still a common dairy cow health issue around the world, but the use of new preventative products, especially synthetic zeolite, is now turning the tide thanks to US research. Zeolite is a specific family of ‘hydrated aluminosil