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1. Market Watch: Cattle: (Organizations); Click a link below to see updates on Cattle from a specific issue of Progressive Dairyman. 2019 Issue 20, 2019: December 12, 2019 Issue 19, 2019: November 29, 2019 Issue 18, 2019: November 7, ...; Created on 16 October 2019
2. Foundation Watch: Donations fuel conversations and collaboration for water quality: (Organizations); Dairy farmers established Professional Dairy Producers Foundation to ensure our dairy farms remain viable and socially responsible for generations to come. Dairy farmers and industry partners work ...; Created on 12 April 2019
3. Progressive Events: PDPW Business Conference moves ‘Dairy Forward’: (Event Coverage); Dairy farmers and industry representatives gathered to learn, strategize and position themselves for the future during the Professional Dairy Producers (PDPW) Business Conference, held March 13-14 in Madison, ...; Created on 12 April 2019
4. In Focus: Mapping the 2019-20 landscape of dairy policy: (Industry News); Even though the 2018 Farm Bill provided dairy safety net program changes for the next five years, Congress will debate issues directly impacting dairy farmers. Immigration, trade and environmental policies ...; Created on 12 April 2019
5. What happened? What’s next? - Despite tough year, DFA positioning for growth: (Industry News); You’re busy – milking cows, managing employees and making 2019 cropping preparations. With that in mind, Progressive Dairyman looks at issues in the news impacting you and your dairy business. In ...; Created on 12 April 2019
6. 2018 dairy financial results are in: (Management); For decades, our accounting firm has produced quarterly dairy farm cost studies for our clients and others to use for benchmarking and profitability improvement. The following is our preliminary report ...; Created on 12 April 2019
7. 2018 Farm Bill, midterm elections spurred dairy lobbying and political contributions: (Management); With the 2018 Farm Bill and midterm elections in play, dairy organizations spent about $7.4 million on lobbying efforts in 2018 and another $3.5 million in political contributions in the 2017-18 election ...; Created on 12 April 2019
8. Poisoned wells: New Mexico dairy dumps milk while dealing with toxins in drinking water: (Management); Art and Renee Schaap are living a nightmare. Last summer, their farm’s water wells were found to be contaminated with chemicals from the adjacent Canon Air Force Base. And things have quickly gone from ...; Created on 12 April 2019
9. 3 Open Minutes with Michaline Tomich: (People); Michaline (Micki) Tomich’s experience design firm, Mixdesign, assisted Fair Oaks Farms with the recent redesign of their agritourism and educational experiences. The new exhibits opened this spring. Progressive ...; Created on 12 April 2019
10. Right-size your herd to lower expenses: (A.I. & Breeding); Raising heifers today is about having the right ones, not keeping every one. Do you need an inventory of heifers to maintain your milking herd? Of course. But are you confident your heifer inventory contains ...; Created on 10 April 2019
11. What is a four-event cow?: (A.I. & Breeding); Meet cow 8968. She lives on a 1,500-cow dairy farm in Wisconsin, where she’s milked three times per day through a double-20 parallel parlor. She’s fed a well-balanced ration and spends her time resting ...; Created on 10 April 2019
12. How to maximize IVF investment in commercial dairy herds: (A.I. & Breeding); Advanced reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) offer significant opportunities for genetic advancement in your dairy operation, but if you’re like most commercial producers, you ...; Created on 10 April 2019
13. Removing ration minerals gives false impressions: (Feed & Nutrition); With current low milk prices and negative profit margins, dairy farmers and bankers are asking nutritionists to reduce feed costs. On some farms, all feed additives have been removed, which may save 30 ...; Created on 10 April 2019
14. The most inexpensive way to optimize milk: Feedbunk management: (Feed & Nutrition); As nutritionists and dairymen, our goal when feeding dairy cattle is to provide each group of cows with the nutrients needed to support their milk production, maintenance, growth, health and reproduction. ...; Created on 10 April 2019
15. 7 steps to start a moderate DCAD program: (Feed & Nutrition); If you already do a good job with feeding management and monitoring pre-fresh cows, then implementing a moderate negative dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) diet is just adding some minerals. Cows ...; Created on 10 April 2019
16. Fatty acid impacts on immune balance: (Feed & Nutrition); Fatty acids are one of the last major nutrient categories to be truly “balanced” in our dairy cow diets. Several factors have come together recently to make now the era of fatty acid balancing. First, ...; Created on 10 April 2019
17. Milk quality: You’re in control: (Management); Milk quality matters beyond quality premiums. It can help secure your milk market and bring more money back to your dairy by reducing mastitis treatment costs and labor, along with milk withholding times. ...; Created on 10 April 2019
18. Producers optimizing payables: Trend data show milkfat up, SCC down for top herds: (Management); Top producers have optimized two key parameters to generate significantly more milk revenue despite the long-running down dairy market, as shown in a unique database of milk processor records. The ...; Created on 10 April 2019
19. How to benchmark milk production records: (Management); How do you use the mountain of information that is at your fingertips every month? How do you find the next opportunity or efficiency in the data you collect? Very few dairy farms have systems in place ...; Created on 10 April 2019
20. Just dropping by ... Prayer to heal our land: (Yevet Tenney); The Lord promised: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their ...; Created on 10 April 2019
21. Equipment Hub: Correct mixer use – part II: (Barns & Equipment); As you work to provide a consistent ration to your cows at the same time each and every day, the mixing operation is critical to your success. Today, I want to talk about getting the feed mixed and some ...; Created on 10 April 2019
22. The Milk House: Your brief guide to Brexit: (Ryan Dennis); For the last three years, the word “Brexit” has dominated international headlines. Most Americans know that it deals with the United Kingdom (UK) leaving the European Union (EU) but, beyond that, the details ...; Created on 10 April 2019
23. HERd Management: Maybe it’s not all as bad as it seems: (Guest Blog); When you look online at articles, blogs and comments, it can feel like the whole world is against animal agriculture. Just this year, we have seen the EAT-Lancet Commission report and the Green New Deal. ...; Created on 10 April 2019
24. The Manure Spreader: Mystery meat: (Tim Moffett); Food marketers are constantly throwing catchphrases and specialty food labels at us like a politician running for office. Grass-fed, gluten-free and cow-fart-free, just to name a few. When did deciding ...; Created on 10 April 2019
25. How to make milk for less than $15 per hundredweight: (Management); We are all feeling the pinch (or gut punch) of low milk prices these days, but the blow doesn’t have to be as bad as it seems. In fact, it is actually possible to make money right now at a Class III base ...; Created on 06 March 2019
26. Stabilizing the rumen microbial population during feed changes: (Feed & Nutrition); Many dairy production operations have achieved very high levels of performance, and a change of any type can have a significant impact on milk production. Dairy cows perform at their highest levels of ...; Created on 18 February 2019
27. Walking a mile in another farmer’s boots: Gaining insight into my mental health advocacy: (Guest Blog); Those who know me well know that I’ve dealt with mental illness in some form since childhood. After surviving an abusive parent and a very traumatic divorce, I remember having my first panic attack in ...; Created on 07 February 2019
28. Beyond generic: Why you should create custom genetics: (A.I. & Breeding); “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” —General George S. Patton Jr., one of the top U.S. commanders in World War II Although not necessarily directly in combat, dairy producers ...; Created on 24 January 2019