{"id":3304,"date":"2013-11-26T10:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T18:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ext100.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/?page_id=3304"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:28:43","slug":"livestock-dairy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/agriculture\/livestock-dairy\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestock &amp; Dairy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--sidebar-right\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"396\" height=\"396\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13020\" src=\"http:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-extension\/uploads\/sites\/2053\/2015\/09\/livestock-four-396x396.jpg\" alt=\"livestock-four\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2015\/09\/livestock-four-396x396.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2015\/09\/livestock-four-792x792.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2015\/09\/livestock-four-198x198.jpg 198w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2015\/09\/livestock-four-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/extension\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2015\/09\/livestock-four.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">While the number of large livestock and dairy operations in Snohomish County has decreased over the last decade, during that same period we&#8217;ve seen a steady rise in the number of small livestock and dairy operations. These new operations often approach livestock from a long-term sustainability point of view embracing new forages, feeds, and techniques to ensure a high quality product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This page contains links outside Washington State University which provide an option for finding further information.No endorsement of products or information at these sites is implied.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Livestock Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csanr.wsu.edu\/publications-library\/livestock\/\">WSU CSANR Livestock<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vetextension.wsu.edu\/dairy\/\">WSU Dairy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vetextension.wsu.edu\/\">WSU Veterinary Medicine Extension<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vth.colostate.edu\/poisonous_plants\/\">Guide to Poisonous Plants&nbsp;<\/a> by Dr. A.P. Knight, Colorado State U. Also has links to several other poisonous plant sites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fortress.wa.gov\/ecy\/publications\/documents\/0507034.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fortress.wa.gov\/ecy\/publications\/documents\/0507034.pdf\">On-Farm Composting of Livestock Mortalities (pdf)<\/a> &#8211; Dept. of Ecology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dairy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/agr.wa.gov\/departments\/food-safety\/food-safety\/dairy\">WSDA Dairy Program<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/agr.wa.gov\/departments\/laboratories\/microbiology-laboratory\/dairy-testing\">WSDA State Central Dairy Laboratory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/skagit\/agriculture\/volunteer\/\">Livestock Advisor Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n<section  class=\"wsu-section wsu-spacing-before--none\"  >\r\n        \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick Links<\/h2>\n\n\n    <nav class=\"wsu-navigation-vertical wsu-vertical-menu\">\n        <ul id=\"wsu-site-menu\" class=\"wsu-menu-collapse wsu-menu-collapse--style-vertical\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/agriculture\/\">Agriculture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/agriculture\/beginning-farmer\/\">Beginning Farmer Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/agriculture\/cultivatingsuccess\/\">Cultivating Success<\/a><button aria-label=\"{Open submenu Cultivating Success\" class=\"wsu-menu-collapse--action-toggle\"><\/button>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/agriculture\/cultivatingsuccess\/wfp\/\">Whole Farm Planning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/agriculture\/cultivatingsuccess\/agent\/\">Agricultural Entrepreneurship<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/agriculture\/cultivatingsuccess\/growing-farms-with-a-future\/\">Growing Farms with a Future<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/agriculture\/compost\/\">Compost in Agriculture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/agriculture\/livestock-dairy\/\">Livestock &amp; Dairy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/agriculture\/agriculture-links\/\">Agriculture Links<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>    <\/nav>\n\n    <\/section>\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the number of large livestock and dairy operations in Snohomish County has decreased over the last decade, during that same period we&#8217;ve seen a steady rise in the number of small livestock and dairy&amp;hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_expiration_date":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43758,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3304\/revisions\/43758"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.wsu.edu\/snohomish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}