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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Of the 22 recommendations proposed, 18 passed, two failed and two were tabled. Sixteen of the 18 recommendations that passed garnered at least two-thirds “yes” votes.
A state judge yesterday ruled against a Minnesota farmer who denied responsibility for an outbreak of illness from raw milk.
Strong export demand will mitigate downward dairy price pressure. But rising feed costs will still deteriorate margins in the first quarter of 2011.
USDA reported this afternoon that November milk production was up an estimated 2.7% nationally (3.1% in the top 23 dairy states).
New NMPF plan protects income over feed costs.
A new effort shows consumers real life on a dairy.
A panel of global dairy insiders says that the first half of 2011 could be troublesome for producers, but things will improve markedly by the second half—maybe.
Las cámaras infrarrojas detectan el calor en el alimento almacenado
U.S. milk production shifts to the West and Upper Midwest while the Southeast and New England see large declines.
Over the next three years, Domino’s outlets in Australia and New Zealand will be serving 12 million pounds of California mozzarella cheese to their customers.
Through the first three quarters of 2010, U.S. milk production is running 2.1 billion pounds ahead of the same period last year.
500-cow Dairy Herds Account for 60% of Production
The milk-weighted geometric mean of bulk tank somatic cell counts (SCCs) was 227,000 cells/ml in 2009 in the four Federal Milk Marketing Order areas in the central U.S. That’s according to data released by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service this summer.
U.S. dairy producers will have 722,000 more heifers available from 2008 through 2012, thanks to sexed semen technology that started coming online in 2006.
With today’s high-volume silage choppers, it’s imperative that you sample corn silage several times a day to ensure the material is being adequately processed. If corn kernels are left unprocessed, you’ve essentially wasted a whole growing season of effort and your cows will be unable to fully utilize the feed.