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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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.
July dairy cow slaughter is down 2,000 head compared to July 2009.
Cydectin, marketed by Boehringer Ingelheim, announced this week it became the livestock industry’s first sponsor of Wounded Warrior Project.
Dairy farmers sent 42,000 fewer cull cows to slaughter in June than they did a year ago, a 16% reduction in culling
Cooperatives Working Together will now include butter and anhydrous milkfat as products eligible for export assistance.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has are received a letter signed by 75 Members of Congress urging USDA to allow limited planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa.
“Is competition healthy enough to protect farmers, and if not, what do we do about it?” Sen. Herb Kohl’s question at the USDA–Department of Justice hearing on dairy industry consolidation sums up a never-ending debate.
National Dairy Shrine will provide more than $40,000 of scholarship awards
The University of Kentucky recently posted a series of videos to help dairy producers manage milk quality.
The National Milk Producers Federation provided more detail on the organization’s Foundation for the Future plan, which is intended to change U.S. dairy policy direction.
Cost-price squeeze worse than 1980s
HSUS donated less than 0.5% of its budget to local pet shelters and humane societies in 2008.
Ohio law enforcement officers converged on Conklin Dairy Farms Monday, this time to protect the owners, workers and property from threatened violence from animal rights groups.
Hartmann Dairy Farm, Gibbon, Minn., has been embargoed from selling dairy products following confirmation that E. coli bacteria in raw milk that sickened five people came from the farm.
Ohio dairy employee pleads not guilty to animal abuse case shown in Mercy for Animals video.