Natural Dairy Products Corporation has relocated from Avondale, Pennsylvania, to a new 30,000-square-foot facility in Newark, Delaware. It is Delaware's only certified organic dairy, according to an article by Karie Simmons in the Newark Post.

The first story that I wrote as a professional journalist was a feature story about a man who had prostate cancer. You never forget a first. And I will always remember that story.

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At the 2013 Western Dairy Management Conference,Joe Harner of Kansas State University presented a paperentitled “Scientific Data for Developing Water Budgetson a Dairy.”

Farmers, including dairy farmers, may act together in marketing their agricultural products. This includes collectively bargaining and establishing prices for their products. The Capper-Volstead Act of 1922 gives farmers the legal authority to do this.

For a dairy producer, the milk, feed and energy price fluctuations have a huge impact on cash flow, equity and profitability. So naturally, you want to know the outlook for 2014. If I used this space to write about what’s going to happen in the 2014 markets, the facts would change before the ink was dry.

Many people who work with cows on a daily basis have a solid understanding of cow behavior. Cows are fairly predictable. What about the people you work with? Is their behavior predictable? How do we influence co-workers to perform day-to-day activities in a way that continually improves such things as safety, cow health, production and profitability?