The author is a past managing editor. His degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison combined dairy science and agricultural economics.
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Nov. 30 2020
“We utilize Dairy Comp 305 for our record keeping and record health events weekly,” said Andy Fisher of the importance of herd health records
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Nov. 23 2020
“We have made several improvements over the past few years to help our cows and heifers that are safe in calf,” said Travis Holmes, the lone repeat winner in the 13th Annual Dairy Cattle Reproduction...
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Nov. 16 2020
“We are extremely particular about the nutrient balance in our prefresh and postfresh rations,” explained Paul Colgan of Patterson Farms
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Nov. 15 2020
What am I most proud about in 2020? That was the question posed by Lucas Lentsch to dairy farm leaders of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), and USDEC
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Nov. 12 2020
Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the November 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman
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Nov. 9 2020
The health pandemic induced by the novel coronavirus has upended plans throughout the world, and the agricultural community has not been immune to the situation
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Nov. 5 2020
For three decades, Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) ranked among the handful of politicians who truly understood agriculture in Washington, D.C.’s Capital Beltway
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Oct. 19 2020
From a business standpoint, the U.S. Dairy Export Council’s decision to open its U.S. Center for Dairy Excellence this October in Singapore . . . in the heart of Southeast Asia . . . just may be...
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Oct. 13 2020
Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the October 25, 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman
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Oct. 12 2020
Just how much U.S. milk goes into U.S. dairy exports? A few readers posed that question after reading the October 10, 2020, Editorial Comment "Should we cull all the cows in Wisconsin?"
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Oct. 5 2020
U.S. cheese consumption posted another new record. In 2019, every American, on average, consumed 38.3 pounds of cheese
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Sept. 28 2020
After logging 3,400 miles of windshield time through the heart of America’s cropland from September 14 to 18, I came away with this finding — this could be a banner crop year
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Sept. 25 2020
Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the October 10, 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman
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Sept. 17 2020
At the beginning of the decade, spanning from 2010 to 2019, the average American consumed 32.7 pounds of cheese
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Sept. 14 2020
Consumers have been flocking back to butter. That’s because evidence continues to mount that all dietary fats are not equal
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Sept. 10 2020
The 2019 fluid milk sales data has been tabulated by USDA and its doesn’t bode well for dairy. Fluid milk sales fell another -1.75% when comparing 2019 to 2018
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Sept. 9 2020
Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the September 25, 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman
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Sept. 7 2020
“Dairy sales have been around 14% above year-ago levels for several weeks now,” said Abrielle Backhouse, research coordinator with the International Dairy Deli Bakery Association
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Sept. 3 2020
Whether measured on the domestic or international stage, dairy’s top processor list has a different look and most of the changes involve Dairy Farmers of America (DFA)
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Aug. 25 2020
Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the August 25, 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman