As ag commodity prices fall, yet seed, chemical and equipment prices remain high and high land prices persist, agribusinesses continue to look at ways to consolidate. The Des Moines Register reports that the DuPont interim CEO, Ed Breen, confirmed that DuPont Pioneer is exploring the possibility of a merger.

Carlson Dairy is moving towards a fifth generation as brothers Chad and Carl Carlson, their wives, Kindra and Kellie, and parents, Curtney and Louise – along with the seven children between them – continue the legacy of dairy farming begun near Pennock, Minnesota, in 1891.

As Theo Scholze was preparing to write this month’s blog post, he was expressing concern over the marketing campaign that is currently being funded by our checkoff dollars through Dairy Management Inc. (DMI). He felt that they were missing the millennial audience, and he was concerned that while they are working with the NFL, they aren’t associated with any “one name” athletes or their sports – Lebron, Michael, Pele or Ronolodo.

In layman’s terms, what does NSC and NFC mean? NSC stands for non-structural carbohydrates, while NFC refers to non-fibrous carbohydrates.

At Thanksgiving dinner, always remember to compliment the chef. Just know that if you compliment your mother-in-law on the “turkey neck,” be sure she knows you meant the actual turkey. Tryptophan in turkey will only make you tired, but a mother-in-law has the ability to “put you to sleep” permanently.

If you saw a team roper with his hand behind his back, could you tell if he was a header or a heeler? I have done an extensive study on this very problem with a grant funded by the Pro Rodeo Ex-Wives Collection Agency and the Team Ropers Anonymous Halfway House. Here are the results of my findings:

Hey, watch out, there’s a rock the size of a loaf of bread about to go through the header!” I yell to my new hubby in the cab of our combine as we harvest in 1981.“Don’t worry, I saw it, and there will be more,” he confides to me.

Progressive Dairyman is proud to once again join in the MoDairy effort to promote men’s health during the month of November – or rather, Movember.

Trade sanctions, Russia’s retaliation and the European Union removing dairy quotas have combined to increase overall world milk production.

After falling steadily for 18 months, world dairy prices registered an impressive late-summer turnaround.