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The article talks about creep feeding for the cattle and calves, on its economic and profitability for the cattle businesses, and how it can help in increasing the milk production.

The article presents information on digital dermatitis which causes lameness in dairy cattle, its risk factors such as poor hygiene, biosecurity, and environment, and the effectiveness of footbaths in the prevention of infectious lesions.

The article offers tips for on-farm emergencies including familiarizing local emergency response teams and town officials, reviewing emergency protocols with employees, and developing a plan for natural disasters such as fire and tornado, that details the place and protocols to be implemented.

The article discusses that culling of cows is a tough decision to make with reasons for culling including reproductive issues, cow performance and structural soundness.

This article describes how STORServer, a backup and disaster recovery solution, helps the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) to manage its resources efficiently. NMDOT is responsible for building and maintaining roads statewide. With this responsibility comes a great deal of research, mapping, engineering specifications, etc. Each year, the NMDOT not only created more highways but more data as well. Then in October 2000, NMDOT purchased a STORServer Appliance to consolidate backups, make better use of staff resources, and implement a solution that would easily grow with the organization. The solution supports a variety of different platforms and databases including Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows NT, Microsoft Exchange, and Oracle. STORServer has also allowed them to consolidate backups into a single department and insure that data is more secure. Once up and running, STORServer cut the time devoted to backup tasks by the NMDOT staff by 80%. This equates to a savings of at least 20 hours per week. This value came into play not only with current staff, but also when budget cuts came around. The time saved by NMDOT when doing a restore is even more dramatic. Restores that would require from 30 to 90 minutes or more of staff time now take 2 to 3 minutes.

The article discusses the challenges in managing calves for cattle breeders in the U.S. and offers tips on monitoring the health condition of first-calf heifers.

The article discusses challenges faced by beef cattle farmers during the calving season including the lactation period,raising the calf, and nutrition offered to first-calf heifers; and also notes tips for farmers on management of first-calf heifers.

The article offers information on the steps that a farm manager can do to be a good employer while being authoritative and fair which include putting first things first, being proactive, and being flexible.

The article focuses on calving management particularly in controlling mortality of newborn calves and mentions topics including infectious diseases control, hypothermia, and environmental stress reduction.

The article focuses on the strategies to weaning calves with a low-stress system, such as moving the cow-calf into weaning pasture a few days before the weaning day, separating cows and calves from each other, and installing a plastic nose flap in calf's nose a few weeks before the weaning.

Wurtzite AlN is a piezoelectric material with excellent electro-acoustic properties and is used for the fabrication of high frequency thin film micro-acoustic components, most notably filters, duplexers, resonators, etc. Its moderate electromechanical coupling coefficient (kt2) of 6%-7% is insufficient for applications requiring larger bandwidths. Recent theoretical and experimental studies indicate that AlN alloyed with Sc exhibits a substantially higher piezoelectric constant than pure AlN. This study aims at determining the main electro-acoustic parameters of Al(1-x)Sc(x)N in view of large bandwidth applications. To this end, highly c-textured Al(1-x)Sc(x)N thin films have been synthesized with relative Sc concentrations of up to 0,15. Subsequently, FBAR resonators were fabricated and characterized as a function of the Sc content. It is seen that kt2 increases linearly with the latter to a value of 12% for a Sc concentration of x=0,15, while the Q value decreases from 739 to about 348 in the same concentration range. Likewise, the TCF varies from -35,9ppm/degC to -39,8ppm/degC, while the dielectric constant increases from e=10 to a value of 14,1 for x=0,15. Finally, the relative dielectric losses are seen to increase by approximately a factor of two.

The article highlights the importance to provide a good start in calf's life to generate an equal profit, particularly those Holstein steers which is abundant in Wisconsin.