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Here’s a fun look at summer ag shows from the other side of the vendor’s table.
Get there the day before, check in, set up, see old faces and friends, ask myself what MacGyver would do to fix what was forgotten, broke in transit or left behind at the last show, and be glad someone else set up the tent.
I have dedicated this space for this issue to thank Progressive Dairyman’s longest-running columnist for his years of dedication and contributions to the magazine. Mike Gangwer, the author of “The View from Here,” retired earlier this year. His final regular column appears here.
The New York Times recently spotlighted O.A. Borden & Sons dairy in Schaghticoke, New York, which has switched to a robotic milking system. Seventh-generation dairyman Mike Borden talks about the experience of being interviewed for the article.
The Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) export assistance program in 2015 continues to protect export market share as well as expand markets for U.S. dairy products.
The program continued to focus on dairy products that most directly impact producers’ revenue stream – American-type cheeses and butter containing 82 percent butterfat.
The extent of our lives can be told in stories. The art of composing the story, as essay or poem or detailed biography, are together the composition of a life.
The stories of loss and then redemption, the essays of cognition and then art, the poems of metaphors and then enlightenment, and the biographies of chronology and then honest reflection, are together the validation and acknowledgment of a life lived and given.
With 362 attendees representing 23 states, six countries and more than 500,000 head of calves and heifers, the 2015 annual Dairy Calf and Heifer Conference (DCHA) was one of the better-attended conferences in the past several years. This year, DCHA hosted the event in Madison, Wisconsin, on March 31 and April 1.
Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, said: “McDonald’s is not in the hamburger business but the real estate business.” There have been several books written on Mr. Kroc’s life and the founding and establishing of McDonald’s I find fascinating.
Have you ever come across a word that means something different to almost everyone that you might ask to define it? Have you ever tried to get a definitive answer to a question that doesn’t have just one?
Dairy truly is a global industry, as economist Dr. David Kohl explained during the 2015 Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) Business Conference, where he moderated a panel featuring dairymen Michael Murphy and Eckhard Meiners and shared his economic outlook for the coming year.
The federal milk marketing orders have existed in one form or another for more than 80 years. Twenty years ago, Congress mandated a full review and reform of the order system, which was completed in 1999. California was then offered the opportunity to join the federal system.
