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In the July 19 issue of Progressive Dairyman, my colleague Peggy Coffeen confessed to us readers that she has felt like kind of an outsider. She’s writing for a commercial dairy magazine, but she not-so-secretly (at least anymore) loves flashy show cows.
Ken Nobis is an active member of the Nobis Dairy Farms team, which milks 1,050 cows and farms 3,400 acres in Clinton County, Michigan. He is also the president of the Michigan Milk Producers Association.
A nutritious diet including dairy is just one part of the equation to assure healthy schoolchildren across the country.
Students also need 60 minutes of physical activity each day to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This nutrition-exercise combination is the cornerstone of the Fuel Up to Play 60 (FUTP 60) program founded by America’s dairy farmers in partnership with the NFL and supported by the USDA.
Around the world and back again, the eighth annual Kentuckiana Dairy Exchange on July 29-30 covered a lot of ground.
Not only did 100 attendees from both states visit five central Kentucky farms selected for top-notch management, high production, low somatic cell counts and great on-farm innovation, they also heard about dairying in Europe and early lameness detection with keynote speaker Dr. Nicola Blackie, Writtle College, England, and about a recent Indiana Department of Agriculture trade mission to Asia from Indiana Dairy Producers executive director Doug Leman.
In today’s busy world, with all our electronic forms of communication, conflict can arise very quickly. Workplaces have evolved from authority-controlled (where people are told their specific tasks) to participative-style (where employees work as functional teams).
It is impossible to live without conflict. As with all things, it is about how you handle the situation. We have all heard the comment, “Roll with the punches.”
During several in-depth interviews with dairy owners and managers regarding personnel management, we often heard about challenges and the difficulties associated with managing people.
However, in most cases, mixed in with those challenges were bits of human resource (HR) “gold.” The purpose of this article is to highlight a few of those best practices and provide some insight into how you might incorporate something similar on your dairy.
A proposed organic agriculture promotion program has rankled some organic dairy producers. But what is really at stake for organic dairies in the possible creation of an organic promotion program?
When Congress passed the recent farm bill, one of the new provisions authorized the USDA to create a promotion, or checkoff, program applicable specifically to organic agriculture.
Several months ago, I wrote an article discussing the relationship between milk price and several economic factors to determine if there was a correlation between these economic indicators and the Class III milk price.
This article is a follow-up to my last piece as I drill down further into some agricultural factors and prices to see if there are any better correlations and indicators of the upcoming milk price.
Two dairymen who are test-driving web-based margin projection software both say the program is giving them increased confidence in their management decisions. One of the two is even taking steps to lock in his margin up to one quarter in advance.
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