QC Cow Health

Individual Cow Cultures

The Pathogen lab specializes in processing individual cow cultures. Determining the cause of mastitis offers considerable savings by improving herd health. The cost of an individual cow sample is very competitive. We can determine the most common primary bovine pathogens including:

Staph.aureus, Strep. ag., and Mycoplasma spp.
Milk Bulk Tank Services
Bulk tank culture for Staph. aureus, Strep. ag., Mycoplasma spp.
Standard Plate Count
Lab Pasteurization Count
Coliform Count
Preliminary Incubation Count

Same sample analysis for butter-fat, protein, solids, non-fat, somatic cell count, AND bacterial analysis available (2 vials), all in-house.

Export Sales

The Export Sales Reporting Program monitors U.S. agricultural export sales on a daily and weekly basis.The program requires U.S. exporters to report sales of certain commodities to FAS each week. Commodities currently covered by the program are wheat, wheat products, barley, corn, grain sorghum, oats, rye, rice, soybeans, soybean cake and meal, soybean oil, cotton, cottonseed, cottonseed cake and meal, cottonseed oil, sunflowerseed oil, flaxseed, linseed oil, cattle hides and skins, beef and pork. FAS publishes a weekly summary of export sales activity every Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, unless a change is announced.In addition to the weekly requirement, daily reporting is required when a single exporter sells 100,000 metric tons or more of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, soybeans, soybean cake or soybean meal, or 20,000 metric tons or more of of soybean oil, to a single destination on a single day. FAS issues a summary of daily sales at 9 a.m. Eastern time on the following business day. Daily sales are also included in the weekly report. (See the latest daily sales reports below, under News.) [...]

Crop Progress

This full text file contains reports, issued weekly during the growing season (April to November), which lists planting, fruiting, and harvesting progress and overall condition of selected crops in major producing states. The data, summarized by crop and by state, are republished along with any revisions in the Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin. During the months of December through March, the report is issued monthly titled State Stories. [...]

Export Inspections

This report contains a weekly summary of grains weighed for export in metric tons, including totals for the current and previous market year to date. Included are grains prepared for export weekly by country of destination and port area. [...]

Cattle On Feed

This file contains the monthly total number of cattle and calves on feed, placements, marketings, and other disappearances; by class and feedlot capacity for selected states; number of feedlots and fed cattle marketings by size groups for selected states. Data is organized by state and by U.S. [...]

Cold Storage

This file contains the regional and national end-of-month stocks of meats, dairy products, poultry products, fruits, nuts, and vegetables in public, private and semi-private refrigerated warehouses. The file also contains the record highs years and quantities of frozen fruit and juice, vegetables, potatoes, red meat, and commodities in cold storage. [...]

Individual Cow Cultures

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