Hilrose Advent Anna-Red EX-94, an eight-year-old Red & White Holstein bred and owned by Hilrose Holsteins of Sherwood, has been named the 2018 Wisconsin Cow of the Year.
Calls to the Wisconsin Farm Center, which helps distressed farmers, were up last year, including a 33 percent increase in November and December compared to the same two months the previous year.
“The dairy business hadn’t been very good,” Mark Baker says. “My sons and my wife we’re all in this together, and we saw this as an opportunity we shouldn’t let pass.”
Wisconsin Republican legislators want to join two lawsuits before the state Supreme Court that will determine the extent of environmental regulators’ powers.
A judge has restored Wisconsin’s authority to protect water quality after ruling it was improperly given up in a settlement with a dairy industry group.
Dairy economics, policy, robotic milking, performance benchmarking, heifer development, genomic selection and more are on the agenda for a broad range of educational seminars at the 2018 World Dairy Expo.
Wisconsin has seen 449 dairy farms exit the business, a loss of 6% so far this year. Meanwhile, 10,000 dairy operations across the country could begin to see their Dairy Margin Coverage payments arriving in the mail.
Raising replacement heifers is a long-term investment, to be sure. In most herds, the cost of raising heifers from birth to calving far exceeds their market value, especially at today’s prices.
