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Dec. 15 2014
This reader response references the following Hoard's Dairyman Intel item, "Dairy insurance has outpaced crop insurance." Sign-up in Wisconsin is slower, as it probably should be. Also, consider why LGM-D...
Dec. 15 2014
Reader Response: Some say "no" to MPP-Dairy This letter is in response to the "Be the ant, not the grasshopper" article in last week's Hoard's Dairyman Intel email: Could it be today's grasshopper can...
Dec. 15 2014
A reader response to Hoard's Dairyman Intel item, "Did sexist ads botch Coke's Fairlife launch?" Is it really surprising that the campaign failed? If this was geared toward women, what can you say? No...
Dec. 15 2014
by Corey Geiger, Managing Editor Chicken. Chicken. Chicken. Those competing against this animal protein know full well that chicken strategists have mastered a list of consumer must have's in today's fast-paced...
Dec. 15 2014
Most farms pay close attention to reproduction in the milking herd; heifers are often another story. Location, facilities and time in the day often impact the reproductive performance of the heifer herd,...
Dec. 15 2014
"We have a tendency to have a disastrous year in agriculture every 19 years, on average," noted Elwynn Taylor, an agricultural meteorologist with Iowa State University. Weather can make or break in agriculture....
Dec. 15 2014
High milk prices in late 2013 and early 2014 fueled a boom in cow numbers and production in New Zealand that now has Kiwi dairy owners pushed to the edge of a financial cliff in 2015. Falling currency...
Dec. 8 2014
This letter is in response to the "Walmart's organic promise" article in last week's Hoard's Dairyman Intel email: While the concepts of organic agriculture may mirror in many ways the farming approaches...
Dec. 8 2014
The latest Hoard's Dairyman Bull List, complete with rankings of the nation's top bulls for all seven dairy breeds, can now be downloaded by clicking the link found at the bottom of this Hoard's Dairyman...
Dec. 8 2014
Don't let the current decline in producer milk prices get you too far down. A major outlook report says that within 10 years, anyone who has milk to sell will find an eager and hungry global market
Dec. 8 2014
"Drink what she's wearing." "Milk with flair." "Swing in to something better." These taglines, developed to promote Fairlife, were accompanied by the text "milk with 50 percent more protein and calcium."...
Dec. 8 2014
November 28. December 5. Now December 19. With a third deadline for sign-ups for the Margin Protection Program for Dairy, (MPP-Dairy), one might guess that dairy producer acceptance of the program has...
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