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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. 2020 Issue 2, 2020: January 19, 2020 Issue 1, 2020: January 1, 2020 2019 Issue 20, 2019: December 12, ...; Created on 16 October 2019
2. What happened? What’s next? - Taxes on the sale of ‘base’: (Industry News); You’re busy – milking cows, managing employees and preparing year-end financials. With that in mind, Progressive Dairymanlooks at issues in the news impacting you and your dairy business. In recognition ...; Created on 11 December 2018
3. Critically examining prepaids as the go-to tax strategy: (Management); Paying taxes is painful. We all hate to write a check to the IRS; however, sometimes paying taxes is more important for operational health and long-term wealth generation than spending profits to avoid ...; Created on 11 December 2018
4. Marriage fitness: Build a stronger team: (Management); All too often it seems spouses may pay more attention to crop production than they do to their marriage partnerships, and the cracks can really show. I challenge you to spend time this upcoming New ...; Created on 11 December 2018
5. Successful habits of top farmers: (Management); As a principal in the Agri-Food Management Excellence program and owner of his own consulting business, Larry Martin has worked with a lot of farmers across Canada to analyze and improve their businesses. ...; Created on 11 December 2018
6. Evaluate strategies for Dairy Revenue Protection insurance: (Management); The Dairy Revenue Protection (Dairy-RP) insurance program has been in place for nearly two months. Some farmers have written endorsements, some are hoping there will be milk price increases before stepping ...; Created on 11 December 2018
7. What do we do when our neighbor calls and tells us ‘it’s over’?: (Management); Recently, a friend sat down beside me at dinner and asked, “What do you do when someone calls you and asks about this crisis we are going through? What do you say when one of your neighbors calls you and ...; Created on 11 December 2018
8. 3 insurance endorsements for winter storm-related losses: (Barns & Equipment); April 15, 2018, is a day brothers Chad and Darren Van Camp say they will never forget. Not because it was the annual income tax deadline but because it marked the most severe winter snowstorm either men ...; Created on 11 December 2018
9. 3 tips to prepare robots for extreme cold: (Barns & Equipment); Just as parlors may be challenged by below-zero temperatures, robot barns are at risk of freezing too. However, according to Whitney Davis, capital sales director for Finger Lakes Dairy Services in ...; Created on 11 December 2018
10. Is your barn engineered to carry the load?: (Barns & Equipment); Dave Bohnhoff’s frustration still surfaces when he recalls the dates of April 14-15, 2018. On those days, a heavy spring snowfall resulted in the collapse of numerous dairy barns in Wisconsin. Bohnhoff, ...; Created on 11 December 2018
11. All galvanization is the same, right?: (Barns & Equipment); When buying equipment for a freestall barn, all owners want equipment that will stand the test of time, bringing them the most value for the money spent. Shy of purchasing stainless-steel headlocks ...; Created on 11 December 2018
12. Progressive Dairyman's Top 25 of 2018: (Industry News); Celebrating 10 years of Top 25: The top 25 of 2018 For a decade, Progressive Dairyman has presented readers with an annual list of the top 25 best-performing articles. In those 10 years, our online readership ...; Created on 10 December 2018
13. Declining fluid milk consumption pulls down the dairy category: (Industry News); TRENDING: DAIRY CONSUMPTION The downward trend line in fluid milk consumption continued in 2018. And for the first time in years, the decline pulled down the entire dairy category on a per-capita basis. ...; Created on 10 December 2018
14. FDA finally looking at labels: (Industry News); TRENDING: LABELS Efforts to regulate use of dairy terms on plant-based imitation dairy products gained momentum in 2018. In late September, FDA Secretary Scott Gottlieb pledged to prioritize the ...; Created on 10 December 2018
15. Agriculture, dairy feel the pain of retaliatory tariffs: (Industry News); TRENDING: EXPORTS, TRADE Having ended the previous year on a high note, many dairy analysts believed exports would be key to reversing slumping U.S. milk prices. On a total milk solids basis, U.S. ...; Created on 10 December 2018
16. Other news and events that shaped the year: (Industry News); TRENDING: NEWSWORTHY IN 2018 New York summit supports dairy supply management About 350 participants, about half of whom were dairy farmers, attended a summit to explore dairy policy and marketing ...; Created on 10 December 2018
17. Some fixes implemented; a new one created: (Industry News); TRENDING: SAFETY NETS The heavy lifting on dairy safety net reforms – which many were targeting for the 2018 Farm Bill – got some advance help when program changes were inserted in a federal budget bill ...; Created on 10 December 2018
18. Drying hay in a new way: (Barns & Equipment); With a desire to feed top-quality nutritious hay and increase their return on investment, Lars and Ingrid Steunebrink from Kirkton, Ontario, found themselves a new way to dry hay. The couple decided ...; Created on 10 December 2018
19. Skid-steer loader: Tried and true meets new routines: (Barns & Equipment); A well-maintained skid-steer loader can be one of the most dependable, versatile and highly productive machines in a busy dairy operation. Although you’ve heard it before, I’ll say it again: You can ...; Created on 10 December 2018
20. Getting top dollar for used equipment: (Barns & Equipment); There are many reasons a person might sell farm equipment. You might have become an executor to an estate; you may be a farm operator wishing to liquidate for cash, upgrading, downsizing or retiring. A ...; Created on 10 December 2018
21. Service tips to extend the life of utility tractors: (Barns & Equipment); Regardless of the season, utility tractors are typically the workhorses in many operations. Keeping tractors serviced properly is time and money well spent to ensure efficient operation and peak performance. ...; Created on 10 December 2018
22. Getting a grip on tractor ergonomics for smaller-stature operators: (Barns & Equipment); Most of us can relate to what happens when a man tries to get behind the steering wheel of a vehicle after a woman’s been driving. He has to slide the seat back. It doesn’t seem to matter what country ...; Created on 10 December 2018
23. Just dropping by ... Traditions for Christmas: (Yevet Tenney); Year after year, we listen to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and swoon with wonder at his understanding of the human condition. The three ghosts, Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future, ...; Created on 10 December 2018
24. The Milk House: Returning to the Peasant Poet: (Ryan Dennis); In 1939, Patrick Kavanagh left his farm in County Monaghan, Ireland, and moved to Dublin to become a writer. When he was young, he would recite poetry while working in the fields or scribble down ideas ...; Created on 10 December 2018
25. On the Edge of Common Sense: I should’a brought a raincoat: (Baxter Black); As Noah said when he went out on the deck to check the windshield wipers, “I should’a brought a raincoat.” Paul’s day started out with a drum roll. Every morning for months, as he went into the machine ...; Created on 10 December 2018
26. Got space?: (Barns & Equipment); Farm transitioning can be a very stressful time. Change is never ceasing, but it still comes with more than a little heartburn for those of us who have been in the production side of agriculture on the ...; Created on 07 December 2018
27. 3 things you can control on your dairy: (Management); As 2018 comes to a close, I’ve been asked to write about “balancing cow comfort and the bottom line.” This has certainly been a year when the focus has needed to be on making sure your operation was in ...; Created on 07 December 2018
28. Identifying the four D’s of scours and how to treat it: (Calves & Heifers); On average, dairies lose 5 to 15 percent of their calves in the first three weeks of life due to scours, making it the number one killer of calves. However, it doesn’t have to be this way. With the right ...; Created on 21 May 2018
29. 7 signs calves are headed down a bad health path: (Calves & Heifers); Many calves show subtle signs of sickness before it becomes clinical. The “look, listen, smell and feel” strategy will help you identify those calves much earlier and can be used in all calf-raising systems. ...; Created on 01 March 2018
30. Planning for equipment purchases: (Barns & Equipment); At Farm Credit East, we are often asked about equipment purchases – what constitutes a “major” equipment purchase, how to plan for them and whether to buy new or used. Paul VanDenburgh, an experienced ...; Created on 14 December 2017
31. 5 tips for when your robot freezes: (Guest Blog); Winter is a tough time of year regardless of how you milk your cows. Things freeze. Snow, ice and cold are here. Things take longer than they should. Winter was tough when we milked in our parlor, but ...; Created on 30 November 2017