Falling milk prices virtually wiped out profits for Northeast dairy farmers in 2015, delivering close to break-even results on average, according to Farm Credit's Northeast Dairy Farm Summary. In addition...
The math on the semi trailer found in paragraph three was updated on June 22 Dairy plants in some parts of the Northeast and Midwest have resorted to "dumping milk" either due to oversupply from dairy...
"You can't manage something you can't measure." At the recent Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference, Perdue AgriBusiness' Normand St. Pierre one-upped this old saying. "A number is meaningless unless you...
Hoard's Dairyman Webinar Archives May 9, 2016: Strategies for nonpregnancy diagnosis in dairy cows presented by Paul Fricke, University of Wisconsin-Madison Brought to you by: Parnell (www.parnell.com)...
For years, preweaned dairy calves were housed individually as a means to reduce the spread of disease and monitor feed intake. Yet, over time, researchers have suggested that calves may benefit from socialization...
What is "normal" anymore? The start of each new year brings uncertainty about what lies ahead. Like being in front of cows or behind them, how things look depends upon your perspective. For dairy producers,...
As printed in our November 2015 issue... CULL RATES HAVE PICKED UP MOMENTUM as 14,100 additional dairy cows were sent to packing plants in September compared to the same month last year. Through the first...
Aggressive management yields impressive statistics. The Hoard's Dairyman Farm has been in existence since 1899. Numerous advancements have been made in technology and management since those early days....
Aggressive management yields impressive statistics. The Hoard's Dairyman Farm has been in existence since 1899. Numerous advancements have been made in technology and management since those early days....
Editorial: North American's future in a fog Dubbed the largest all-breed, purebred livestock exposition in the world, the 42-year-old North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) now appears...
California irrigation districts sue the state water board after it demanded they stop using pre-1914 water rights. As California's drought woes worsen and tempers keep climbing, you just knew it would...
As printed in our November 2014 issue... A RECORD 11 MONTHS OF $23-PLUS per hundredweight All-Milk prices should be complete once November's final numbers have been calculated. Prices ranged from $23.20...
Maggie Seiler tells the interesting story of Windsong Dairy LLC on page 724 of the November issue. The New York dairy is operated by a young man, Diesel Hitt, who did not grow up on a dairy farm but has...
The dairy industry is quickly evolving around the nation. That also includes the Northeast. In May 2006, farms that sold over 1.5 million pounds per month represented a mere 13.5 percent of the region's...
The educational program is packed with tours, people and fun. The Hoard's Dairyman staff works with the National 4-H Dairy Conference's youth delegates. For many of them, coming from close to 30 states,...
Few dairymen readily admit when the time has come to retire. After pouring decades of blood, sweat and capital into their business, hanging up the milkers is likely the most difficult decision they will...
Dairy-wise, nothing even remotely as big as the just-opened Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) processing plant has ever happened in Fallon, Nev., before. And for the 19 milk producers in the area, it means...
Over the past 12 years, the milk produced by cows and sent to plants in the Pacific Northwest Federal Milk Marketing Order has become significantly higher in components. As a result, that milk with higher...
Hoard's Dairyman Webinar Archives December 9, 2013: "Growing high yield and high quality corn silage in the northern Corn Belt" presented by Joe Lauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Brought to you by...
