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Dairy outlook: Prices for the year decidedly better than at this time last month
Nearby milk and dairy product prices have risen, and the outlook for the rest of the year is decidedly better than at this time last month.
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Poll finds concern about animal welfare, doubt about new regulations
Nearly 70 percent of rural Nebraskans define animal welfare in terms similar to those promoted by advocacy groups, but most don't think increased regulation of the state's livestock practices is necessary to ensure proper care of animals in the state, according to the latest Nebraska Rural Poll.
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Dairy trade isolated from financial market declines, but not ignoring them
Sunday’s evening session started higher, but the debt downgrade panic that inspired a 600 + point drop on the DOW crept ever so slightly into dairy and prices slipped early. Once the spot cheese session kicked off and buyers were nowhere to be found, the futures slide began in force.
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Study shows nutrients in milk decrease threat of skin cancer
KMVT-TV reports nutrients in milk, including Vitamin D and Calcium help to prevent skin cancer by up to 57 percent.
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Block cheese unchanged at $2.1325
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How to deal with whiners
We all have different trigger points when the hair on the back of our neck rises and we have the strong desire to flee the room.
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Quantifying nutrition’s influence on reproduction
A dairy cow’s nutrition program has a profound effect on reproductive success. Although poor heat detection, insemination practices, diseases, toxins and other management-related problems can cause declines in reproductive performance, an inadequate ration with nutritional deficiencies and imbalances can be just as detrimental.
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Monitor what heat stress may be doing to milk
This has been a hot summer in many parts of the U.S.
In addition to monitoring impact of heat stress on dry matter intake and milk production, it’s important to monitor milk composition, points out Maurice Eastridge, professor and extension dairy specialist at Ohio State University.
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Freeze syringe guns to retard pathogens
At a holstein feedlot in Atkinson, Neb., Kip Lukasiewicz encourages employees to keep syringe guns in the freezer in the treatment barn to help retard the growth of pathogens and molds between uses.
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Connect with consumers
Consumers are hungry for information about where their food comes from, since most consumers are three or four generations removed from the farm.
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Block cheese drops slightly to $2.1325
For the first time in months, open interest soared on a big price-declining day and it appeared that after having been quiet, producers came in selling yesterday. Nearly 400 of the 1,928 Class III contracts that traded Thursday did so Wednesday night in an unusual display of activity in the deferred contracts of 2012
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