180205_ph5
Article
Feb. 12 2018
Just because some record lows are happening in Wisconsin, as noted in the Hoard’s Dairyman Intel article “The change in climate is undeniable,” doesn’t mean climate change is real
171023_ph3
Article
Oct. 30 2017
I’m not from Vermont, but I am a dairy farmer from neighboring Massachusetts and want to weigh in on the Hoard’s Dairyman Intel “Ben & Jerry’s action not new.”
171016_ph4
Article
Oct. 23 2017
Reaction to employee conditions
170828_ph2-crop
Article
Sept. 11 2017
Even at costs of $18.74 per hundredweight of milk on 1,000-plus-cow dairies, no one appears to be making any money, at any size, as detailed in the item, “Size matters more to dairy than crop farmer
170807_ph3
Article
Aug. 21 2017
Getting too low of SCC in the tank is only a look at the entire herd, in response to the item “Can SCCs go too low?” Of great importance is driving down the new mastitis infection rate per...
Bauer-VistaVerde_ph
Article
Aug. 14 2017
Great news on this initiative, and thanks for publishing the story, “Dairy gives inmates a second chance.”
170619_ph2
Article
June 26 2017
Why do you people stomp all over the idea of consuming raw milk? You would think a dairy magazine would try and promote as much good publicity for dairy products as possible. But instead, you are agai
Intel-tractor
Article
April 24 2017
I grew up on a dairy in Wisconsin before there were slow-moving signs on the hay wagon or fenders on the John Deere, and I am still alive
170410_ph1
Article
April 24 2017
I would like to say that I agree with Anne Van Dijk’s “Reader Response: Canada restored its markets”
170410_ph1
Article
April 17 2017
I beg to differ with your article “U.S. farmers lose milk markets in Canada.”
cheese_ph2
Article
April 10 2017
In the April 3 Hoard’s Dairyman Intel article, “Author says we’re addicted to dairy crack,” you cite a book by Dr. Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine...
170320_ph1
Article
March 27 2017
Your take on the number dairies is interesting, but the industry isn’t declining as discussed in the Hoard’s Dairyman Intel, “Where is the dairies decline trend going?”
dairy-farm_ph3
Article
March 20 2017
When thinking about the MPP-Dairy (Margin Protection Plan for Dairy) . . . Why can’t there be a margin incentive to respond to the markets correctly by reducing production when there is a surplus
fluid-milk_ph5
Article
Feb. 13 2017
I enjoyed your information on fluid milk sales in the Hoard’s Dairyman Intel “Northeast fluid sales are evaporating.”
fluid-milk_ph5
Article
Feb. 13 2017
Three cheers for much-needed observations at the end of the article “Northeast fluid sales are evaporating” on declining Northeast fluid sales
Bachelor_Knigge_100-ED2
Article
Feb. 6 2017
We too have had contact with nonfarming consumers in Canada as discussed by the author of Reader Response: Bachelor extends our reach. My wife and I bought the 200-year-old stone house next door
Bachelor_Knigge_100-ED2
Article
Jan. 30 2017
My husband and I dairy farm between Fox Lake and Beaver Dam, Wis., and I also work full time for East Central/Select Sires in Waupun, Wis. From my firsthand experience, I applaud the Knigge family
survey_ph1
Article
Dec. 5 2016
“Of course dairy farmers are against trade” {link} was a good article. The growth in exports, as a percentage of U.S. milk production, needs to also be factored by the growth in annual milk...
survey_ph1
Article
Dec. 5 2016
Thank you for pointing out, and standing up for the truth, in the survey from a Wisconsin-based association in your item “Of course dairy farmers are against trade.”
161003_ph3
Article
Nov. 7 2016
California lawmakers are idiots. That’s my take after reading the article dated October 3, 2016, titled “Is California telling farmers to leave?”