Dairy Herd
Despite spot cheese moving lower, class III milk futures rallied.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 DFA CoLAB Accelerator program. The 2023 program will focus on AgTech and help bring new technologies to DFA’s family farm-owners.
There are two key things you can be prepared with to support someone struggling mentally.
Despite having a current expiration date of Oct. 31, 2022, employers should continue using the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification until further notice.
Oftentimes, estimating cow value around the time of culling is oversimplified.
Freed up labor needs to be redirected toward cow management to make robot milking successful.
Aggressively consuming dry feeds is the gateway to healthy weaning for young dairy calves.
Prior to the release of the USDA Dairy Products report, the CME spot trade and futures kept the momentum moving higher.
Labor shortages are no longer a stark headline, but instead a continued headache dairy farms are faced with. Recently on an Ag Future podcast, Dr. Luke Miller with Alltech spoke about training and retaining labor.
Connecting dairy’s story and products with consumers is a key ingredient when partnering with retail stores. Midwest Dairy was recognized for its efforts in this area by a leading Midwest retailer earlier this fall.
Dairy products were steady to higher Thursday in the CME spot dairy product auction.
One year ago, a tornado completely devasted Wellacrest Farms, New Jersey’s largest dairy farm. Community support outpoured from a group of Amish to a GoFundMe account that helped with the rebuild.
In the middle of an uncertain economy, dairy producers might be forgiven for saying “Haven’t we seen this movie before?”
Head to Georgia and you’ll find a farmer with a New York accent and no dairy in his DNA. Nevertheless, Pete Gelber is a dairy farmer who offers a unique, firsthand perspective on succession planning.
The Generic vs. Brand Name Debate: How Does It Apply to Feed Additive Use?
“Similar to Staph aureus and mycoplasma, Prototheca [mastitis] is hard to detect, has no known cure, and is contagious by intermittently shedding from cow to cow.”
Through this economic swing between bull and bear markets, risk management becomes paramount to negate volatility.
Conflict. Everyone wants to avoid it, but experts say that’s never a good move.
For the second month in a row, Dairy Margin Coverage payments will be issued. USDA’s Farm Service Agency announced that September’s DMC income over feed costs calculation to be $8.62/cwt.
DMI is modernizing the checkoff strategy with a fresh organizational structure and a new three-year plan and budget that delivers immediate results and lays ground for long-term benefits for farmers and importers.
The CME spot dairy auction saw butter take the dip that most had expected for quite some time.
It certainly has not seemed like there’s been a seasonality to cheese prices this year, but price movement shows otherwise. However, milk futures have not reflected that due to an overall bearishness in the market.
Giving a second feeding of colostrum to dairy calves can help increase successful passive transfer.
On June 11, 2023, over-the-counter antibiotics will no longer be available through traditional retail channels. Instead, these antibiotics will now require a prescription from a licensed veterinarian.
When you hire a new employee, you have two responsibilities: Make sure the employee fills out a W-2 and a form I-9, and then verify, to the best of your knowledge, the identification cards they show you are real.
Park the tractor. Even if that means you’re in bib overalls and are literally walking from the cow barn to the school gymnasium. Sit in the stands. When your children spot dad in the gym, their smile will stretch wide.
Condensed milk typically takes a backseat when compared to other dairy products, but its immense utilization in the food and confectionary industry may soon propel this commonly overlooked product into the spotlight.
Lallemand Animal Health is introducing its newest product, MAGNIVA Platinum. MAGNIVA Platinum is part of the MAGNIVA line of forage inoculants.
Class III milk futures slid 32 cents lower for the month of December.