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Did you have a great June Dairy Month? We sure did. Around the office there was free ice cream, yogurt, cheese and, of course, milk! We wrote about dairy queens, visited with Alice in Dairyland and celebrated the lives of dairy folk everywhere in our enewsletter.
My most embarrassing moment when courting my wife was bringing her home for the first time. And the awkward part had nothing to do with meeting my parents, as the movies are likely to portray.
Neil Peck of Welcome Stock Farm in upstate New York recently hosted writer Tim McDonald for a very hands-on farm tour. McDonald wanted to milk a cow as part of a fund-raising event for No Kid Hungry.
The visit resulted in both an article in the Huffington Post and a video of McDonald’s experience. We caught up with Neil to ask him about hosting the writer on his farm.
In today’s global marketplace, every successful cattle producer and importer knows the importance of planning when it comes to succeeding in their businesses.
The same value holds true for the producers and importers who volunteer to make decisions about how to invest folks’ hard-earned dollar-per-head investments into the Beef Checkoff Program.
The American Dairy Science Association recently held a Discover Conference in Itasca, Illinois, to review the present understanding of amino acid requirements for dairy cattle and consider the future opportunities for further research and application of knowledge in this area.
For anyone who has attended an annual Alltech symposium, it comes as no surprise the events are filled with music, huge video productions and a lineup of speakers that leaves normal conventions in the dust.
This year was no exception as the Alltech “REBELation,” as it was billed, took over the Lexington Convention Center and Rupp Arena.
Dan comes into the milking parlor. The members of his five-person milking team are all standing around in the middle of the parlor. Dan fumes and comes down the hall yelling, “Get back to milking, we are going to be late! What are you doing standing there doing nothing?”
As we all know, 2014 was a record year for farm milk prices, and this was reflected in a record average mailbox milk price of $24.04 per hundredweight (cwt) for various federal order reporting areas. The California 2014 mailbox average was $21.83 per cwt.
As a machinery salesperson and consultant in the dairy industry, I spend a lot of time on feedpads, from looking at how rations are mixed to suggesting what type of loader a farm should use.
In order to make qualified recommendations in the past, I have looked at mixer sizes, fuel usage, rations, loader owning and operating costs, and much more. In the end, my advice was based more on experience than on a quantifiable reason.
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