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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Calculating margins on your dairy is not as easy as it looks.
The biggest problem may lie in margin insurance, not the market stabilization program.
Current Farm Bill dairy options could be a return of milk over-supply similar to the 1980s, all again financed by government.
Cross-vent barns offer more consistent performance, particularly during periods of summer heat stress.
This is the eighth time since 1997 that the 400,000 cells/ml proposal has been rejected. NCIMS meets every other year.
This is the third consecutive month dairy farmers will receive a MILC payment.
Closure of slaughter plant in Quebec, Canada last year could be distorting U.S. cow slaughter numbers.
Some 3,000 dairy farms are up for renewal in the coming months.
Year-to-date, some 27,000 more cows have been slaughtered than in 2012.
California production was down 3.3% in March from year earlier. Wisconsin, the No. 2 dairy state, was up 3%.
While the U.S. milk supply ranks among the top nations, it may not be the absolute best.
The gas is produced on farm through simple, but expensive, methane scrubbing technology.
Breeding your low-end cows to beef bulls now might make sense.
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