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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Los productores de leche a lo largo y ancho de los Estados Unidos han hecho un buen trabajo reduciendo la presencia de residuos de medicamentos en la leche.
CRI has grown five-fold in financial firepower, from $23 million in assets in 1993 to $116 million in assets last year.
While still pleading innocent, DFA felt the court settlements would put an end to the millions paid to attorneys and cap the risk of possibly even higher penalties if DFA lost.
DFA makes no admission of wrongdoing but will pay $46 million to the plaintiff class.
CWT has budgeted $30 million to incentivize dairy exports in 2013. Year to date, it has already spent $7 million.
Year-to-date, 556,000 dairy cows have been slaughtered, up 8% over last year.
European dairy quotas are scheduled to end in 2015, though recent action challenges that notion.
‘For the 20,000 lb./cow budget, income rose by about $340 and variable expenses rose by about $40.'--Robert Tigner, University of Nebraska Extension
A loss of even a portion of the Chinese market would be felt worldwide as more Aussie and Kiwi dairy products would become available for sale elsewhere.
The groups note that expenditures for animal health are just 7% of those spent on human health initiatives.
The groups are most concerned with unfettered access to U.S. markets by Fonterra, New Zealand’s large dairy company.
Florida dairy vertically integrates.
Returns to management are a negative $5/cwt for 20,000 lb. Midwest herds and a negative $2.50/cwt for 24,000 lb. herds.
Even Federal Milk Marketing Orders could be affected, says Cornell economist.
Milk production climbed 2.1% to an even 200 billion lb. of milk in 2012. The average production per cow was 21,697 lb.