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.

Latest Stories
Total costs, excluding labor and management, are running about $17.63/cwt for tie stall herds and right at $16 for midsized freestall operations.
Cow numbers were down 4,000 head from April, however.
“No consistent evidence that checkoff funded projects were more likely to support an obesity prevention benefit from dairy consumption.”
Forty-six million Americans rely on food stamps to meet their nutritional needs. Most of the recipients are the unemployed, the elderly and children.
If you protect your margin between nine and 12 months to contract maturity, you will likely obtain a [milk-feed price] margin between $8 and $10/cwt.
Co-op officials don’t expect many, if any, farms to go out of business as a result of non-compliance since they expect USDA will readily grant derogations.
CWT has accepted eight requests for export assistance from Bongards, Darigold, Foremost Farms and United Dairymen of Arizona.
At the Litchfield academy, Lloyd Metzger, a dairy food scientist at South Dakota State, explains what’s required to produce and sell high quality milk.
Dairy’s baseline is $432 million over the next 10 years. That sounds like a big number. But not when it comes to government expenditures.
Fifty-seven counties produce 50% of all Federal Order and California milk, down from 62 counties just five years ago.
The dairy portion of the bill eliminates milk price supports and the Milk Income Loss Contract program.
USDA also reported that veal production is at a record low
Once again, western states led the surge in milk production.
In a trial utilizing four pens of about 320 cows each, UC-Davis graduate student Nadia Swanepoel fed four levels of canola meal.
Lecherías de Wisconsin a la vanguardia de las inspecciones de seguridad.