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Dairy Analyzer, LLC is selling licenses to its web-based MARGINSMART milk margin management software, which helps dairy farms manage price risk and overall profitability in today’s volatile commodity marketplace by providing real-time customized information specific to their operation.
The Galaxy Muddy Buddy from the Alliance Tire Group has introduced a super-deep-tread design to its lineup of skid steer tires.
The company says that the Muddy Buddy’s extra-deep tread, shallow lug angle and sharp shoulders provide better traction on slick or slushy surfaces and offer more high-durability rubber for longer service life.
Livestock producers may not be able to see the difference between stable flies and other flies at a distance, but they can definitely see the stable flies’ effect on their cattle as the animals stop grazing and bunch together to minimize the number of bites they’re getting.
While all farm types have hazards, dairy farms have added hazards to which workers are exposed every day – livestock, machinery, wet surfaces, hazardous cleaning chemicals, confined spaces, and more.
These all add up to the reason the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have begun taking a closer look at dairy farms. While most industries are accustomed to OSHA rules and audits, it is rather new and unfamiliar to agriculture.
University of Minnesota Extension in cooperation with the Center for Dairy Farm Safety (University of Wisconsin – River Falls) is offering a series of two-day short courses around Minnesota.
Tom Wall, president of Dairy Interactive, recently teamed up with dairy veterinarian Roger Thomson and dairy equipment specialist Paul Peetz to launch a new dairy blog.
The Almost Perfect Parlor, found at perfectparlor.com, is intended for anyone whose livelihood depends on healthy cows, quality milk and productive employees – dairy managers, veterinarians, milking equipment technicians and other milk quality specialists.
Most said falling off the dairy cliff wouldn’t happen because it never had before. For a short time, Congress let it happen. But what did it mean for your milk check and rising milk prices? Experts say very little.
Congress would have had to delay enacting a new farm bill for much longer for the effects of parity pricing milk to have been painful.
“I remember being in ag policy class and having this question: Why do we always have a farm bill?” dairy market analyst and Daily Dairy Report publisher Mary Ledman says.
In the weeks leading up to the end of 2012, the cost of a gallon of milk took center stage inside and outside of Washington, D.C.
Major media outlets reported that the cost of a gallon of milk could soar upward to anywhere from $6 to $8 a gallon after Jan. 1.
New York dairyman Skip Hardie was on camera for an NBC “Today Show” segment hypothetically asking a question that would have been on many dairy farmers’ minds: “What am I going to do with all this milk if people stop buying it?” Click here to read about how Hardie prepared for his TV interview.
When it comes time to plan the editorial calendar for the magazine each year, the obvious topics about growing forage – planting, fertilization, irrigation, testing, harvesting, etc. – are the first to go into the rotation.
