Note: The following are opinion commentaries.
No: The Dairy Security Act of 2011 and other sideshow plans are just another way for everyone to make money off of milk, except we farmers who produce it. We can all acknowledge there is not enough money in milk for everyone who touches it to be rich, so the popular answer seems to have the farmer buy expensive insurance.
Picture a pie chart … Now, in your mind, make the circumference of that pie larger (money from insurance claims). Now cut your piece – bigger piece, right? But at whose expense? Yours! Yes, your piece will be bigger too, but don’t forget to deduct the premium you paid to insure everyone else a bigger piece. You lose again.





















Dan Glickman hasn’t left Washington, even though his last public service office as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during the Clinton administration (1995-2001) ended in 2001.
In John Frey’s latest column, he talks about the necessity of self-improvement and how the 2012 Pennsylvania Dairy Summit is just one of many opportunities dairy producers and others have to focus on “Being Better.”
Calves are born with no immune system and rely on you and your employees to provide them protection from diseases. This protection is known as passive immunity and is provided through the form of antibodies.
Editor's note: We asked author Jim Quigley to provide an update to his April 2011 article, "What's new in colostrum research." 

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