Ever since Wisconsin’s lawmakers budgeted nearly eight million dollars per year into the Dairy Innovation Hub a couple of years ago, new research projects have been underway at three University of Wisconsin campuses.
Dr. Sylvia Kehoe is a professor of dairy science at the University of Wisconsin River Falls. She tells Brownfield they are developing an applicator to put a consistent amount of dehorning paste on calves. “It’s sticky and it’s got the stuff on the inside, and so you put the stuff that’s caustic on the horn bud tissue, and then the rest of it around it just sticks to the calf.
