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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Every morning at 4, Jim and Greg Moes meet in their office at their dairy’s new milking center to plan the day’s activities. It’s quieter then, before feed wagons and skid steers and milk trucks roar through the operation.
With today’s largely Hispanic work crews, finding a midlevel manager to lead the team is never easy.
Employees might not be who they say they are.
The DREAM Act passed by the House of Representatives yesterday does not contain AgJOBS, which suggests passage of either is unlikely.
Keys to a highly engaged work force.
The goal is to have at least 20 producers per state participate to get a more accurate picture of dairy labor rates.
“The withdrawal of the proposal is a victory for common sense,” says Jerry Kozak, President and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation.
NMPF CEO Jerry Kozak says agreement is positive step forward in securing agricultural work force.
Despite years of debate in Congress and the country, the Senate immigration bill is really just the beginning salvo.
The Minnesota minimum wage jumps to $9.50 by 2016. Maryland’s jumps to $10.10 by 2018.
Four in Minnesota sickened, including children, from E. coli in raw milk.
Fair Oaks milk trucks no longer use diesel. Instead, they head to dairy manufacturing plants to fill up.
Judging will be done August 10 - 12.
Activity, Rumination Monitors Big Time Labor Savers
High stocking density and restricted feed access increase the risk of sub-acute rumen acidosis with greater time spent below rumen pH of 5.8.