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Readers will notice we’ve made some changes this month to Progressive Dairyman. We think our new combination of headline and body text typefaces are more reader-friendly. The combination also allows us to fit more information-packed words on a page.
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Higher corn prices decreasing milk-feed price ratios A recent USDA report shows rising feed prices, especially for corn due to increasing ethanol production, are squeezing milk-feed price ratios and are likely to continue to do so well into 2007.
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Butter The butter market tone is unsettled as the CME cash butter price edges lower. Churning activity in many locations across the country is heavier, although lighter than most desire.
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Editor’s note: The following is the second of a two-part series discussing basic financial statements and analysis tools.
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I have been a Spanish teacher for 20 years. A while ago, I was asked to help local dairy producers with their Mexican employees. I started working and have never, ever looked back. I love what I do. As I gain experience in this world of milking cows, scra...
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Thomas Friedman wrote an excellent book on globalization with the provocative title The World is Flat. Friedman points out it is the free flow of information through communication technologies such as the Internet that has greatly advanced globalization.
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Marketing is becoming an important tool to help dairy producers reach maximum profitability. I interviewed Scott Stewart who recently wrote a book, New Times, New Rules – Take Control of Your Farm Marketing, about agriculture marketing. I asked him how ...
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Today it takes more than hard work to operate a profitable dairy. Financial measurements help make it possible to not only understand and measure but to sustain profitability despite expense rates that have risen from 50 percent of gross income in 1980 to...
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In the fall of 1983, my sister Nina and I devised a plan for her family to join our family in Jerome to embark on a Christmas trip to visit our two brothers living in Arizona. I had acquired a previously fire-gutted, 15-passenger Dodge Maxi-van that only ...
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Jim and Laura Lee Albers decided to leave the hustle and bustle of Chino, California, in September 2005. Their move to the west Texas town of Dalhart made Covenant Dairy a pioneer in one of the fastest-growing dairy regions in the nation.
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Brent Duncan of Franklington, Louisiana, is most grateful this Christmas for normal weather. To a dairy producer in the Louisiana panhandle, cool temperatures and wet fall days are critical for winter survival. Both have been fantastic this fall, and opti...
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The new discovery of a lethal gene may explain why pregnancy rates in dairy cattle have dropped sharply in recent years, a University of Wisconsin – Madison researcher says.
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Somatic cell count (SCC), bacteria count and antibiotic or chemical residues are some factors that determine milk quality. Generally speaking, high quality raw milk is free of all antibiotic or chemical residues and low in SCC (less than 200,000) and bact...
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PACE success reaches new levels with November sire summaryAccelerated Genetics continues to maintain an active lineup full of leading genetic sires in all breeds that graduate from the PACE young sire program. Topping Accelerated Genetics lineup for both...
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One of the most important drivers of profitability on a dairy is a successful reproductive program. The regular generation of pregnancies provides the constant supply of fresh cows required to maintain a high level of production as well as the heifer calv...
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Here’s a short Christmas story about a fictional character named Jimmy. Hope you enjoy!
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New online course teaches the mechanics of ethanol A new online training course for ethanol provides an understanding of ethanol fuel and how it affects engine performance and the environment.
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Spanish Language Software for temperature and humidity data logging available Spanish-speaking personnel and organizations with quality concerns requiring accurate monitoring of temperature and humidity can now access a Spanish language version of Dickson...
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The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
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This year-end marks a political changing of the guard. It was a year of mixed blessings. The economy is booming, unemployment is down, the results of No Child Left Behind’s accountable education are encouraging, the prescription drug benefits program is...
Re: Second annual Latinos in Agriculture forum deemed a success
Posted on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 by Agriculture in the Black Sea Region.This project is for and about agriculture in countries aroung Black Sea...
Re: Mastitis prevention and control: A prevention methodology
Posted on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 by Justo Calderon.Great article, nice explanation, easy and interesting to reading And...
Re: Documentary shows struggles of Maine co-op
Posted on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 by David Bright.One correction. MOOMilk is not a co-op. It's an L3C corporation, a...