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Let’s take everything you know about feeding pasteurized waste milk and set it aside for a moment. There’s a lot of information out there, and I think we can all agree, it’s good to take a step back sometimes and reevaluate.
Growth in export markets has long been lauded as the measure of success in American agriculture. Last year, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue credited exports for being a “major driver of the rural economy, generating 20 percent of U.S. farm income and supporting more than a million U.S. jobs.”
The good news is that dairy farmers received more money from the market on their July milk production. And those signing up for the highest level of Tier 1 coverage under the 2019 Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program are ensured indemnity payments for a seventh consecutive month. However, with July milk prices climbing faster than feed costs, the July DMC indemnity payment will be the smallest of the year, and it could be the last.
Paying special attention to transition cows from the close-up or maternity pen to the fresh pen usually pays big dividends for the dairy producer. During no other time in a cow’s lactation cycle will she be more prone to diseases and setbacks than this short window. The big dividends paid to the dairy producer include higher milk production, maintain/minimize loss of body condition score, low incidence of metabolic disorders, minimize loss of immunocompetence, control/decrease days to first ovulation and maintain/enhance fertility after the birth of a healthy calf.
Maintaining a farm or ranch requires a lot of non-lateral movement, and operators should not have to slow down because they cannot reach high enough. The John Deere 344L High-Lift Wheel Loader option offers operators 12 more inches of reach with a maximum hinge pin height of 13 feet, 2 inches (compared to the 344L), making it more adept at stacking and dumping applications, while still remaining compact. This extra reach makes this option a good fit for ag material handling, or snow removal tasks.
As of Aug. 25, 17,677 dairy operations had signed up for the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program. That number represents about two-thirds of the 26,832 dairy operations with established milk production history and about 61% of the milk production history.
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