By 2023, U.S. milk output could reach a record 246 billion pounds, projected USDA economists. That would be a 22 percent expansion of milk supply when compared to the 201.2 billion pounds of milk produced...
Bulldozers are busy again in California's Chino Valley. It's the resumption of the sad but inevitable end to what for decades was the center of the dairy world. The remnants of what used to be a sea of...
Stray voltage is still lurking around the countryside, said Doug Reinemann, University of Wisconsin-Madison milking equipment specialist, when he spoke at the Midwest Rural Energy Conference last week....
As many milk buyers push producers toward a 400,000 somatic cell count (SCC), the national average for DHI herds is already well below that level. This past year, the DHI test herd SCC dropped under 200,000...
Continued high-feed costs and tight overall margins caused 2,321 dairy producers to hang up their milkers last year. Not only was that the most dairies since 2007, but it also tied that year on a percentage...
Soil sampling do's and don'ts. A soil analysis is only as good as the sample on which it was based. Therefore, sampling should be done by either the farm's crop consultant
Here is some additional information to compliment the March 10, 2014, article on page 170 of Hoard's Dairyman. photos by Paul Queck, a free-lance agricultural writer
Handy Hint: March 10, 2014 Barrel gives float protection Our cattle were constantly licking the bottom of our float and getting it out of socket, letting the water free flow and making a big mess. To prevent...
As printed in our March 10, 2014 issue... THE ICONIC "GOT MILK?" CAMPAIGN was shuttered by the national Milk Processor Education Program, or MilkPEP, as it launched a new tagline, "Milk Life." First utilized...
Proper integration of the farm bill's new insurance program will offer dairy producers meaningful options to reduce price riskThe House Ag Committee was instrumental in creating the revamped dairy policy
Dairy once again proved it can be a divisive issue. Reportedly, the farm bill's dairy provisions were still being hammered out just hours before the final bill was filed with the House Rules Committee....
Long-term trade prospects gathered a lion's share of the attention as marketers from across the U.S. and around the world joined in the conversation at IDFA's Dairy Forum. An in-depth discussion took place...
Dairy producer attitudes towards margin insurance were revealed during a series of workshops across Missouri designed to teach producers to insure their margins. In the process, we learned that margin...
Take a stand for cows that can't Down cows deserve special care to bring them back to health or, if necessary, to a humane end. by Geof W. Smith, D.V.M. The author is at the College of Veterinary Medicine,...
The problems with the public perception of GMOs are difficult to deal with, as noted in the February 17 Hoard's Dairyman Intel item, "Food E-Vangelists don't want truth on GMOs." As the article says, it...
There was a further drop in pick-up tanker milk samples testing positive for antibiotics in the United States last year . . . 445 out of 3.2 million samples, or 0.014 percent, were positive. This represents...
Cooling cows is a simple-sounding idea that is hard to do well. The cost and attention to detail it requires can be great, but its financial rewards are even greater. An intriguing new approach –...
Healthy cows with healthy hooves are the most productive and efficient in a robotic milking system. "Healthy feet are critical in a robot milking situation," said Jack Rodenburg from DairyLogix Consulting...
"If we took the best haplotypes (genes) from all the cows genomic tested to date, we would have a cow at $7515 Net Merit," said Paul Van Raden with USDA's Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory
Launched in 1993, "Got Milk?" has been the dairy industry's slogan stronghold. One of the first iconic images, featuring Rice Krispies' Snap, Crackle and Pop, was created by Goodby Silverstein & Partners...
