Dairy producers and their current employees stand to gain significant benefits from passage of a proposed immigration bill introduced in the U.S. Senate in late April.

Ed Taylor, Diane Charlton and Antonio Yúnez-Naude recently published new economic research using nationally representative household survey data from rural Mexico that tracks workers over 30 years.

Their work shows a decline in willingness of Mexican workers to seek ag labor – both in Mexico and in the U.S. Progressive Dairyman Editor Walt Cooley spoke with Charlton about the potential impacts of this trend on U.S. agriculture.

It stems from the book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead,” by Sheryl Sandberg.

In my last column for Progressive Dairyman, I discussed how lower SCC limits are being put in place by processors and how the system of premiums for quality milk is potentially going to be replaced by an expectation of quality milk.

Sometimes the most interesting and worthwhile films aren’t the ones on the marquee at your local cineplex.

That’s especially the case if you’re a farmer looking for a film you can relate to or are someone who cares about farming as a way of life.

One of the more unique items on the recent Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference schedule was the robot producer panel. The four different farms represented on the panel were of varying sizes with different robotic systems.