Jim Dickrell

Jim Dickrell is the editor Dairy Herd Management and is based in Monticello, Minn. He has 27 years of publication experience, and also operated his family’s Wisconsin family dairy farm for three years following graduation from the University of Wisconsin—River Falls. He also holds a Masters Degree from Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn.

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The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is pushing back hard against a statement by the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister on up-coming talks to re-negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Sign-up for the program begins next Monday, June 17.
The accuracy of fertility evaluation depends on properly accounting for whether a unit of sexed- or conventional semen was used.
Passage would put pressure on Europe and China to negotiate terms of trade, says former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
As the U.S. exports an ever increasing share of its milk production, so does its vulnerability grow to trade disruptions.
A non-inferiority trial, similar in methodology to the Cornell University study, found no differences in dry cow treatments.
Clean, dry, well-ventilated pens and adequate nutrition are crucial to coccidiosis prevention and control.
While grass-fed milk has a better ratio of fatty acids, the levels are still so low they don’t make much difference in human nutrition.
Study will look if bacteria has antibiotic resistance and whether bacteria survive manure processing and storage.
Plant should be operational in the fall of 2017.
New farm bill would establish a dairy margin insurance program and eliminate dairy price supports.
Three servings a day of dairy still recommended.
Threats from radicalized animal rights and environmental groups might be of greater concern than international terrorists, says this FBI veterinarian.
The proposal could lead to the erosion of Federal Orders if other specialty milk products claim similar exemptions.
The agreement involves 12 Pacific Rim nations and an untold number domestic constituents, all demanding either new market access or protection from other countries.