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 fat-free TruMoo milk that will be offered in schools contains just 130 calories per serving and only 10 grams of added sugar. That meets the industry target of good tasting flavored milks that contain no more than 150 calories and less than 25 grams of added sugar per 8 oz. serving.
After months of document collection and analysis, the family sat down with their Legacy Project advisers to start sifting through options. What their advisers found shocked the Moes family.
The biggest concerns were over perceived unfairness of the margin protection insurance portion of the plan and market stabilization.
First-time visitors had the largest improvement in impression scores after their visits.
A summary of the most dramatic attempt to reform federal dairy policy in decades.
The numbers are positive enough for FFTF to move forward.
Before you take your neighbor’s word on the merits of Foundation for the Future, learn its provisions for yourself.
In 2009, the loss of $300,000 in dairy exports would have meant the loss of some 2,000 jobs.
But prospects for a successful conclusion to the Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations in 2011 are dim.
Once temperatures reach above 70ºF, high-producing Holsteins are at the threshold of heat stress.
If 400,000 SCC limit would be implemented today, some 8% to 14% of U.S. herds would not be in compliance.
El nuevo umbral para el estrés calórico es de 65 THI.
The International Dairy Foods Association proposal calls for the elimination of minimum class prices and end product price formulas, and the phaseout of Class I differentials over six years. Only Federal Orders auditing functions would remain.
The National Milk Producers Federation and the National Mastitis Council have both submitted proposals to lower the current federal SCC limit to 400,000 cells/ml.
Delegates to the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) voted 25 for, 26 against a proposal to lower the U.S. Grade A standard to 400,000 cells/ml.