Earlier this month, announcement of the big drop in the May Class III price hardly came as a shock. But the outlook for where prices are going from here may startle some producers
Will today's record milk prices lead to new price lows? The billion dollar question every dairyman would love to know: how long will these historical milk prices last? In April, USDA announced Class III...
America wasted 31 percent of its available food supply in 2010. That's right . . .of the 430 billion pounds of food produced by American farms that eventually reached the supply chain, 133 billion pounds...
Outstanding profit margins that dairy producers have enjoyed so far this year have begun to fray around the edges. It's a pattern uncomfortably similar to what was seen in 2007, so keep your eyes on it....
The latest Hoard's Dairyman bull list has many new names on it. That is in large part due to the accelerated progress being made in genetics these days. The threshold to even crack the Top 50 Net Merit...
Even though Livestock Gross Margin-Dairy Insurance (LGM-Dairy) only first came on the scene in 2008, it quickly became an effective tool to minimize milk price risk for a small group of the nation's dairy...
Two global economic forces have converged to propel milk price projections even higher for 2014: Continued strong demand for dairy and higher production costs. As a result, USDA's latest All-Milk price...
December 2013 Hoard's Dairyman Bull List. Click the image or here for the December 2013 Hoard's Dairyman Bull List. This summary appears on pages 809 through 812 of the December 2013 issue
The latest Hoard's Dairyman Bull List is a sure sign that breeders and dairy producers across the U.S. are buying into the science of genomics. As you may recall, we can learn 60 to 70 percent of the genetic...
Right now, California dairy producer groups say with total certainty that they were lied to and knifed in the back by dairy processors. On October 22, yet another producer petition to adjust the state's...
The four highest average Class III milk price years in history have all happened since 2007. This year is virtually certain to make it five … and be the third highest ever. As seen in the table...
Prices over on the beef side of the cattle world are sizzling and may not be quite done yet, which is tasty news for dairy producers. Live cattle futures prices, which have the most relevance to cull milk...
The dairy world is a tiny place these days, so when the largest dairy exporter tells its producers to expect the highest milk prices in history in 2014, it probably means good things for U.S. producers,...
Click to open the August 2013 Hoard's Dairyman Bull List This bull list appears on pages 577 to 580 of the September 10, 2013 issue of Hoard's Dairyman
The nearly nationwide drought in 2012 alone cost the U.S. economy $30 billion, according to recent estimates from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Dairy producers bore the drought's...
New faces and familiar ones mark the latest sire summary. by Patti Hurtgen, Hoard's Dairyman Online Media Manager Sire summaries occur three times each year. Sometimes it seems the top bulls rarely change;...
But the latest token increase comes with a stunning admission by the ag secretary. Producer milk prices will go up 12.5 cents per hundredweight for six months in California starting July 1, the result...
"C'mon Charlie Brown, I'll hold the football and you kick it." The latest installment of California's longest-running dairy soap opera, "We're Begging You For More Money," unfolded again this week. On...
While genomics is new to Ayrshire breeders this April, and it has gradually made inroads in Brown Swiss circles, the DNA-based science has completely transformed how we mate and market Holsteins and Jerseys
Compared with the most recent August genetic evaluations, and even last December for that matter, the dizzying pace of escalating breeding values has seemed to slow to a more traditional pace as the top...
