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One, two, three strikes you’re out. While this saying goes hand in hand with baseball, some farmers are wondering how many strikes until they let an employee go, as they deal with one issue after the next.

Tuesday’s spot dairy product session was higher and Class III milk futures surge forward.

MDVA took the initiative to implement proactive steps to better their community while achieving national environmental goals. These efforts helped MDVA to be recognized by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.

Markets can be driven by trader psychology for a period of time and can result in prices being overdone to one side or the other. In the end, fundamentals rule. Recent reports may indicate the market may see a change.

Crossbreeding for beef cows and the cost of raising heifers have added to the replacement heifer shortage.

Putting a value on corn silage, even when it never leaves the farm is also necessary. Gary Sipiorski says that most farms do not put any kind of a cost on planting corn for silage – and they really ought to.

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.