Current Issue of PD: April 13, 2009
(site updated 4.10.09)
News and Business
Balancing plant intake varies
Retail features on milk continue erratically
Weather impacting herds
Reduced cow numbers keep processing plants in balance
Market reports
In the news
Women are making it in a predominantly male workforce
Capture dairy's opportunities
USDA forecasts lower dairy prices
Progressive Events: PDPW
WMDC presenters address hot-button issues with research
Midwest well represented at 2009 Dairy Challenge
New hires – March
Progressive Dairyman co-founder passes away
Bruce Bradley: He found a better way
Industry news
New products
Issue Focus: Women in dairy
3 Open minutes with Marion Barlass
Reinhart serves as an activist for dairy
Award-winning dairywoman retired from
teaching to continue her husband’s dairy
She’s got cheese and $100 hundredweight milk
WIFE unites farm women to speak out for agriculture
Utah authoress has a passion for dairy youth
Timely Topic: Calf and heifer raising
Mycoplasma may improve with colostrum replacer feeding
Keep calf feeding functional
Dyecrest Dairy loses only 1.5 percent of bull & heifer calves
Facts and fantasies about calf feed
Viable options for pasteurizing and feeding colostrum
Manage your calf health through nutrition
Is it time to bring heifers home from the grower?
How to identify a premium heifer developer
Raising calves and heifers for peak milk production
PD Departments
Editor's notes: When we can’t borrow our way out?
Yevet Tenney: As a mustard seed
Brad Nelson: The “Teddy Bear” and the “head job”
Baxter Black: One-man job
City boy cartoon
18 Reasons to Read
Analaine's Home Cooking
Northwest/Southwest insert
Convention attendees discuss tough economic times
Come on, let’s do the locomotion
Milk clean, dry cows to avoid seasonal mastitis
The keys to successfully using pasteurized waste milk
Is positive human contact beneficial to dairy heifers?
Baxter Black: A cold outhouse cleaning day
Mike Gangwer: Reporting to you from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq
