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1. In Focus: 2019 Dairy Margin Coverage program enrollment coming into focus: (Industry News); With the closing of the 2019 Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program sign-up period in late September, the USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) has been finalizing enrollment figures. As of Oct. 28, 22,928 ...; Created on 10 December 2019
2. Do you know: Holiday Time is Dairy Time: (Industry News); The year-end holiday season is an important time for dairy, especially for retail eggnog and cheese sales:; Created on 10 December 2019
3. Facility planning: (Management); Dairy farming is a constantly changing business. Farming for the long-term requires a facility that changes as well. Expansion, new technology and new enterprises may all be in every sustainable farm’s ...; Created on 10 December 2019
4. Grantson Farm uses Dairy Advancement Program funding to plan and expand for the future: (Management); David and Laurie Grant have infectious optimism and belief in the viability of the dairy industry. With financial and facility planning resources through a Dairy Advancement Program (DAP) grant, the ...; Created on 10 December 2019
5. Compensating top managers with equity and profit-sharing options: (Management); As dairy businesses continue to grow and evolve, it becomes increasingly important to attract and retain the best people to your management team. Not only do you need to be able to offer compensation ...; Created on 10 December 2019
6. Operational planning: (Management); How can we maximize efficiency and improve our dairy businesses by utilizing our current resources? Operational planning is a management approach that builds the framework for what your business will ...; Created on 09 December 2019
7. Siting manure storages revisited: (Management); To properly recycle nutrients, and to reduce the potential for nutrient and pathogen losses to the environment, dairy farmers will be planning, constructing, and using more manure storage systems. Nutrients, ...; Created on 09 December 2019
8. From the Editor - How a year of saying ‘thank you’ has forever changed me: (From the Editor); For the past few years, our editorial team has shared with you our “word of the year” based on the book My One Word. I definitely won’t be doing that for 2020. I think it either brings bad luck, or it’s ...; Created on 29 November 2019
9. Ask a Vet: VFD questions answered: (Herd Health); What is the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD)? A change to the guidelines by the FDA regarding antibiotics for food animals in feed or water took effect in January 2017. Under the ruling: All antibiotics ...; Created on 29 November 2019
10. Featured farm photographer: Travis Senn: (People); Where do you live? SENN: I currently live in Gainesville, Florida, with my beautiful wife, Bethany, and our daughter, Savannah – though I’ll always be a Wisconsin boy at heart. How did you get started ...; Created on 29 November 2019
11. What Happened? What's next? - USDA to purchase fluid milk; petition wants whole milk back in schools: (Industry News); You’re busy milking cows and meeting with your lender to review year-end financials. With that in mind, Progressive Dairy looks at issues in the news impacting you and your dairy business. In recognition ...; Created on 27 November 2019
12. 3 Open Minutes with Kay Johnson Smith: (Industry News); The Animal Ag Alliance recently attended the 2019 Animal Rights National Conference in Alexandria, Virginia. The nonprofit organization, which helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork, ...; Created on 27 November 2019
13. 2019: Dairy’s year in review: (Industry News); For U.S. dairy farmers, 2019 was dominated by two things many probably wished they had a little more control over: the weather and the government. On the weather front, some regions saw lengthy periods ...; Created on 27 November 2019
14. Dairy Margin Coverage program provides a better safety net: (Industry News); With a fair amount of fanfare and promotion to overcome negative experiences related to its predecessor, a new “dairy safety net” was launched in 2019. Approved in the 2018 Farm Bill and based on adjustments ...; Created on 27 November 2019
15. Trade Mitigation Program enters a second year: (Industry News); With U.S. agriculture feeling the brunt of trade and tariffs wars for a second year, the USDA rolled out the 2019 version of the Trade Mitigation Program (TMP). The $16 billion, three-pronged federal ...; Created on 26 November 2019
16. Wisconsin group hosts annual ‘Milk and Cookies with Santa’: (People); Each December, families make their way to the mall or town hall to visit Santa Claus. Wisconsin dairy producer and advocate Kelly Oudenhoven thought up a new way for kids to see Santa during the holidays. ...; Created on 26 November 2019
17. Pennsylvania dairy restructures the 365-day farming method through seasonal grazing: (People); When thinking about the typical work of dairy farmers, the number 365 comes to mind – 365 days of milking cows, feeding cattle, growing crops, raising calves and heifers – the list of work to complete ...; Created on 26 November 2019
18. Life on the family farm under an open heaven: So much to be thankful for: (Guest Blog); With Thanksgiving here, it’s a good time to look back on the year and see how the Lord has safely brought us through another year and blessed us. This year certainly wasn’t an easy one. We had a hard ...; Created on 25 November 2019
19. Just dropping by ... Thank heaven for dreamers: (Yevet Tenney); Cursing the internet for taking too long to download or upload is easy. If it takes a few extra minutes, we are in a panic and do our frustration dance. After all, it is wasting precious minutes of our ...; Created on 25 November 2019
20. HERd Management: Selfless ambition: The virtues of an unsafe woman revisited: (Guest Blog); Last year, a National Public Radio broadcast inspired me to write about women’s leadership roles and what I consider the virtues of being an unsafe woman. The article ended with a challenge: Be an ...; Created on 25 November 2019
21. The Milk House: An agri-cultural phenomenon: The Persian qanats: (Ryan Dennis); We have tractors that can connect to GPS and drive on autopilot. An offsite mechanic can use telematics to access the onboard diagnostic system of a machine. Cows can wear sensing collars that send messages ...; Created on 25 November 2019
22. The Manure Spreader: Bald eagle: (Tim Moffett); I remember the first time I ever saw a man with a toupee! Our family was coming out of church on a windy Sunday. A gust of wind came by; I just happened to look over and there was a man whose entire ...; Created on 22 November 2019
23. Family recipe sparks idea for yogurt plant next to New Mexico dairy: (People); Yogurt-making comes natural to the van der Ploegs, who own Mid Frisian Dairy located in Clovis, New Mexico. The dairy is home to 2,000 milk cows with a small yogurt plant on the side. The family originated ...; Created on 22 November 2019
24. On The Edge of Common Sense: The anti-smoking device: (Baxter Black); Many years ago, Dr. Erfan called to tell me his story. He’d spent 17 years inventing and testing a device to help people quit smoking. It involved a small battery-operated unit that clips in your ear like ...; Created on 22 November 2019
25. The NDF alphabet: (Feed & Nutrition); This month, we’ll talk about the new alphabet of fiber: a, pe, om and ICP. Don’t worry, you haven’t wandered into an academic spelling bee. But seriously, have you recently submitted a forage sample to ...; Created on 22 November 2019
26. Cheese Advent 2019: (Industry News); The grocery store chain ALDI made headlines last year when it released a cheese advent calendar. Given all the buzz, we decided to create our dream advent calendar with cow and goat milk cheeses from farms ...; Created on 22 November 2019
27. Top 25 of 2019: (Industry News); Progressive Dairy is pleased to bring you the most popular articles, according to pageview metrics from Google Analytics, published between Oct. 1, 2018 and Oct. 1, 2019. When possible, we reached ...; Created on 21 November 2019
28. Leading the Way: Four dairy exhibitors rocking their junior days all the way to the end: (Organizations); From the early 4-H years all the way to graduating from a junior breed association, the dozen years or so that span a junior member’s career are sprinkled with opportunities to learn, compete and succeed. ...; Created on 19 November 2019
29. Talview: New facility planning: (People); Twelve years ago, Brent Copenhaver had the opportunity to buy into a local dairy farm. While not your traditional path to ownership, Copenhaver – who did not grow up dairying, but began working on ...; Created on 18 November 2019
30. How I’m getting a second wind for advocating: (Guest Blog); I was sitting there in the doctor’s office as the nurse went down a list of questions for my son’s checkup. I was doing my best to listen to the questions, but I had also been sick all morning, so I was ...; Created on 23 October 2019
31. Trio of Topp brothers to tap World Dairy Expo champions: (People); Brothers Eric, Keith and Phillip Topp are no strangers to the colored shavings at World Dairy Expo, where each is taking a turn judging the international dairy cattle shows. At the 2019 World Dairy ...; Created on 23 September 2019
32. Conventional to grazing: Making it work: (Management); According to economic data gathered from 60 Maryland dairies between 1995-2009, grazing dairies posted a higher per-cow profit than confinement dairies – $156 more per cow. The farms surveyed included ...; Created on 05 August 2019
33. Bringing your ‘A’ game: A1 vs. A2 milk: (Management); The Dairy and Functional Food Research Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service had planned on determining whether or not milk processing affects the functional properties ...; Created on 10 May 2019
34. What do Santa Claus and dairy farmers have in common?: (Guest Blog); We at Bremer Farms were bustling about as fast as Santa’s elves earlier this month. While the elves were building toys at the North Pole, we were creating a Christmas extravaganza on our dairy farm. Daughter ...; Created on 12 December 2018