Newsletter Articles
Importance of quality colostrum and water availability
Sheila McGuirk from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine shared the importance of quality colostrum and water availability in pre-weaned calves at the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association conference in early April.
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Tips for handling an increase in calves
Gary Geisler, Land O'Lakes Purina Feed Calf and Heifer Specialist offers tips for handling an increase of calves during the summer months.
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Investments worth cultivating: Employees and training
Chuck Schwartau, Extension Educator, University of Minnesota was recently asked, “Is employee development a cost or an investment?” Find out what he had to say.
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Markets still focused on the hot weather
Heat remains the topic of choice and it’s not going away as DMN cited large drop-off in milk production and a recovery that might not materialize until fall. But weather markets often fade as quickly as they emerge. Still, sellers have stepped this week back on concerns over product availability later this year. In order for prices to cool, the weather might have to do so first.
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Commentary: One less thing to worry about
If you were worried about teaching your kids good eating habits, don’t be. There is absolutely no need to worry about instilling good eating habits into your children anymore because the government is going to take care of that for you. At least that appears to be the gist of some potential regulations on food and beverage advertising for children. Oh, and if any business tries to sell your child anything unhealthy, it will probably be sued.
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Poll: Have you taken any additional measures to deal with the recent heat stress?
- Added more waterers
- Increased fan/mister usage
- Added more shade
- Haven't done anything differently
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Dairy cash markets stable Wednesday; futures consolidate
Many dairy market participants began pricing August milk yesterday, and as such they brought August futures up from their discount to move toward the still firm cheese market pricing calculations. There were no price increases in spot today — a break in the upward trend that began last Friday, but they were unchanged with two remaining bids. Right now, though, heat is the talk of the town, and it has brought to mind that some buyers are “stockpiling” just in case production decreases hit hard.
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Monetary policy not driving high ag commodity prices
A steep climb in agricultural commodities in the past year has been driven by supply and demand factors, not monetary policy, the U.S. government's chief economist said Tuesday.
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CME to push ahead with higher corn trading limits
The CME Group made it clear at a meeting that the exchange would go ahead with plans to raise the daily trading limits on corn futures despite strong opposition from many grain-handling companies.
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Bulls lose steam amid modest news Tuesday
Class III futures traded mostly lower early as the heavy volume trade continued. The spot market once again saw an uptick as buyers were aggressive but sellers brought more product to the exchange. When we settled, the block was up 2 cents at 2.1400 with 5 trades and barrels were up ½ a cent at 2.1150 with no trades. The spot sales that hit bids seemed to have deterred futures from rallying hard and instead helped inspire more of a consolidation trade at these lofty levels. Heat in the Midwest also underpinned futures.
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Nearly 50 percent of milk supply now under FARM umbrella
Today’s consumers want to know that the food they purchase is safe, wholesome, nutritious, and produced with integrity.
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- 4 rules for growing a business or industry
- Corn planting pace turns from record slow to record fast
- Ag markets seemed to follow gold higher Monday afternoon
- Online systems keeps exporters abreast of market regulations
- April milk production up 0.3 percent
- New crop cottonseed market rallies in face of tight supplies
