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Dr. Paul Fricke plans and coordinates statewide Extension educational programming in Wisconsin to improve reproductive efficiency in dairy cattle through the development and evaluation of management practices and reporductive technologies.
News and Announcements
UW-Madison Dairy Science faculty awarded USDA AFRI Integrated research and extension grant to fund effort to solve dairy cow reproduction problems on farms
A team of dairy scientists/extension specialists at UW-Madison has landed a new $1 million grant to sort through all of the factors that influence reproduction such as nutrition, genetics, health, housing and management. Read the CALS press release here.
Wisconsin Dairy Statistics 2008: County level data
Sorted by number of cows per county
Sorted by milk production per county
Dairy Team News from the University of Wisconsin
 Dairy Team News
Read about the latest research
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dairy people are talking about
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Artificial Insemination Techniques in Dairy Cattle CD-ROM
Fricke, P. M., D. J. Brusveen, and J. N. Guenther, 2007. Artificial Insemination Techniques for Dairy Cattle. This CD-ROM is available in English and Spanish versions and offers an overview of the tools and procedures needed to understand artificial insemination in dairy cows including: an overview of reproductive anatomy, working with a nitrogen tank, how to store and thaw semen, how to load an AI gun, and a demonstration of proper insemination technique. Includes Flash and PDF files, for Mac and PC. Available for $25 through the Babcock Institute at: http://babcock.cals.wisc.edu/publications/reproduction.lasso.
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Paul
M. Fricke, Ph.D. Professor of Dairy Science