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 estimated health care cost attributable to low dairy product consumption is comparable with total spending on public health in Australia.’
Year-to-date, they have sent 1,523,000 cows to their demise, 65,000 more than last year (+4.5%).
Harvesting drought-stressed corn silage will take extra testing for moisture and nitrates.
Nestle is the largest global dairy company; American brands Dean Foods and Kraft are seventh and ninth, respecitively.
USDA expects 95,000 fewer dairy cows by the end of the year.
Animals vaccinated with the new vaccine can be differentiated from naturally infected animals.
If it’s harvested, ensiled and fed correctly, drought-stressed corn silage can have up to 70% of the feed value of normal.
Elanco, which markets rBST both in the United States and globally where it is registered for use, welcomed the news in a statement released this week.
The dairy provisions are similar to those in the Senate bill, but the MILC program would be immediately ended.
Temperatures have exceeded 100°F several days this week, dew points have been above 70°F, and worst of all, nighttime lows rarely fell below 80°F.
Leaner, more dairy in appearance.
The SAMMY winners each receive a $7,500 scholarship and an awards weekend at Walt Disney World Resort.
Year-to-date, nearly 1.3 million cows have been sent to slaughter in Federally inspected plants in 2012.
The suit began in late 2004, when a Louisia farmer alleged that Cargill had switched feed ingredients in a customized dairy feed.
The number of Michigan dairy farmers using risk management to protect milk prices has risen nearly threefold since 1999.