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MilkPEP’s recent decision to replace its “got milk?” slogan with a message of “milk life” made waves across mainstream and agriculture media outlets alike. Many questioned the need for the milk processors’ check-off organization to tweak a campaign with more than 20 years of iconic status.
Spokespeople for MilkPEP indicate the “milk life” slogan will help convey the message of milk’s protein content and its place in a healthy lifestyle.
We asked several of our Facebook and Twitter followers to weigh in with their thoughts regarding the change.
Click here to download a PDF of the "InFocus" image from the April 1, 2014 issue of Progressive Dairyman magazine to view these comments.
More than 1,500 dairy farmers and allied industry professionals gathered for the 2014 Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) Business Conference held at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin, March 12-13.
As an attorney living in Ohio and working largely in the area of federal law and regulation, I have not read very many court decisions from Idaho.
Although I am certain that I have read some, I cannot specifically recall any of them. But in late January, the Idaho Supreme Court rendered an opinion in a case involving dairy farming that caught my interest.
The second annual Global Dairy Summit was held Feb. 6 at the Canadian Dairy XPO in Stratford, Ontario. Six producers gathered from Canada, the U.S., Israel, the Netherlands and China to enlighten others to what dairying is like around the world.
As this issue hits your mailbox, the Dairy Calf & Heifer Association’s annual conference is taking place in Green Bay, Wisconsin (April 1-3). New to this year’s conference format are several tour stops, each of which will provide additional, focused training from industry experts.
We reached out to tour presenters and asked them to share what they hope attendees will take away from their presentations and their perspective of the calf and heifer-raising industry this year.
I think my coaching adventures started when I was a young child on a Midwest row crop, pig, chicken and dairy farm. I followed my dad around the farm from a very early age, asked a lot of questions, observed how the work got done and received the responsibility of doing chores.
It takes only one.
One employee. One video camera. One YouTube post. One minute to destroy a hard-earned reputation.
The risks dairymen face today go far beyond crop failure and commodity market volatility. Producers are tasked with protecting their livelihoods from agenda-driven activists trying to sneak through the door and onto our dairies.
We in the dairy business at times seem to just go through the motions without thinking about the cost of our daily routine, good or bad. So let us consider a few areas in which our daily routine may be costing us big money.
Cattlemen are leaning on their counterparts in the dairy industry to beef up the supply of quality red meat.
“The beef industry has its eyes on nine million dairy cows,” Jerry Wulf told dairymen at the 2014 World Ag Expo. “Hopefully, you can help us produce high-quality feeder cattle from that cow supply.”
