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Chip Flory is host of AgriTalk

After last week’s fireworks, CME markets got off to a relatively quiet start this week.

Among the mix of technologies, management factors, and strategies to raise healthy calves: genetics. There is growing evidence that calves can inherit the ability to resist calfhood diseases like pneumonia and scours from their parents.

Move over, lactating ration. With its myriad of nutrition benefits and relative affordability, cottonseed makes great heifer feed, too.

Butter had the third-heaviest trade week in history, with 103 loads exchanged.

The USDA said it will expand bird-flu testing of beef entering the food supply as part of its response to the ongoing outbreak among dairy cattle, adding that U.S. beef and dairy products remain safe to consume.

Lower milk solids could mute the impact of faltering sales.

Spot butter trades reached a new record, with 51 loads changing hands – the heaviest single day since daily trading began in 2006.

The current animal traceability system and the ability to rapidly respond to a real disease outbreak is insufficient to protect ranchers and their livelihoods, says NCBA president Mark Eisele.

Learn more from the leader of the Northeast’s premier dairy farmer cooperative.