Current Issue of PD: December
(site updated 12.3.07)
News and Business
In the news
Market reports
Execute change in your business
A dairy farmer's responsibilities to his business
The power of people for your dairy
Developing effective job descriptions for farms
Farm Bill reformers' fair weather friend
Cultivating a healthy balance of work, leisure and rest
Two mounties and the Christmas Spirit
Re-establishing Afghanistan's animal agriculture
Do registered cattle still have a place?
Industry news
Issue Focus: Business & Finances
Evaluating options for change
Taking control of farm-family living expenses
Feed efficiency: Understanding it, measuring it
and profiting from it
Start investing in the future today
Dairy farm energy saving ideas
PD Departments
Editor's notes: It's payback time
Yevet Tenney: Christmas traditions
Baxter Black: Selling the show steer
Tales of a Hay Hauler
Northwest/Southwest Editions
Dairymen boost collegiate football fundraising
How do you tell them apart?
Mycotoxins and distillers grains
Balancing rations on the basis of amino acids
Use mineral and vitamin supplements to enhance reproductive performance
Transition cow facilities: Off-the-wall ideas that just might work
Characteristics of manure: What do they mean?
Carbohydrate feeding: A dairy producer's perspective
Corn silage pricing
How to understand and avoid fatty liver
Effect of clinical mastitis on production and reproduction
Understanding the market for Holstein steers
Mechanisms of inbreeding depression and heterosis for profitable dairying
Estrus: Basic biology and improving estrous detection
Track your milk prices and feed costs
A different look at somatic cell count control
Vaccine offers new control options for foot-and-mouth disease
Baxter Black: Born with the music in ya
Overall Wit & Wisdom: The long haul
The View From Here: Back to the Middle East