Current Issue of PD: December 16, 2008
(site updated 12.12.08)
News and Business
In the news
Market reports
More milk, fewer orders
Extra cream moving
around the Midwest
Cow numbers increase
Milk output trending higher
Progressive Dairy Publishing hires editor Karen Lee
Improve efficiency and quality with milking time evaluations
Got raw milk?
2008 to 2009 – Where are forages headed?
How does your dairy operation compare?
A concrete specialist’s economic outlook: ‘Things will turn around’
Industry news
Livestock wages update
Issue Focus: Christmas
Holiday wreaths adorn Cranberry Creek Dairy
If you’re missing baby Jesus
Three open minutes with Rolinda Stotts
New book prompts readers to reflect on the hope in the Christmas season
PD Book review
Timely Topic: Year-end review
2008 year-in-review: Events that made a big impact
18 reasons to read
Top 25 most-read stories
PD Departments
Guest Editor Leon Leavitt: The Constant Light
Yevet Tenney: Twelve days of Christmas
Brad Nelson: Too much fun
Baxter Black: Christmas shepherd
City boy cartoon
18 Reasons to Read
Adalaine's Home Cooking
Letters to the editor
Northwest/Southwest Editions
Smart planning makes winter feeding transition economical and productive
Maximizing dry matter intake when using a TMR
The cheap can turn out to be expensive – Stick to the basics!
The feeder’s job: When it rains
The history of artificial insemination
Milk transport security project team demos prototype to international audience
Engine block heater timers save money
Farm respiratory protection
The new era of herd management with today’s lower-cost identification systems
U.S. dairy products safe and economical
Feed more as the weather gets colder
In your own words . . .
Conserving fuel on the farm
Cliches and conundrums
Lifting and carrying safely
Risk management at the farm level
Mike Gangwer: A simple model
Baxter Black: King Kong the roping dummy
