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Perhaps it is because it’s fall and students are returning back to school, but I’ve recently had flashbacks to my university economics class while reading e-mail responses from industry contacts.
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Arizona output recovers July 2009 pool receipts of milk in California total 2.986 billion pounds, 9.0 percent lower than last year. The July blend price, at a fat test of 3.51 percent, is $9.97, 9 cents lower than June and $7.86 less than July 2008.
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Hay prices well below 2008 July 2009 pool receipts of milk in California total 2.986 billion pounds, 9.0 percent lower than last year. The July blend price, at a fat test of 3.51 percent, is $9.97, 9 cents lower than June and $7.86 less than July 2008.
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Schools fill Class I orders Class I interest was stronger and handlers were having some, though minimal, problems filling orders. More schools opened this month.
Bottlers were active, between the usually stronger first-of-the-month sales and packaging sc...
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Milk supplies tighten Milk supplies are tight in the Northeast. Production declines are due to herd culling and typical seasonal reductions. Increased Class I demand, due to school openings, is also limiting the available milk supply. Short supplies are n...
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Anhydrous milk fat to be traded on global platform
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NORTH DAKOTA Dairy farmers struggle with low milk prices North Dakota dairy farmers packed a meeting room last month at a state Farmers Union conference on the woes in the dairy industry.
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Medium-impact: Milk quality and safety The following update is provided by Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), which manages the national dairy checkoff program, and is a producer-funded, nonprofit domestic and international planning and management organization ...
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Progressive Dairy Publishing recently brought home impressive recognitions from the Livestock Publications Council’s annual critique contest announced at Ag Media Summit held in Forth Worth, Texas, August 1-5.
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Even though Progressive Dairy Publishing received the award, we know our website, which was voted best Special Site, would be for naught if it wasn’t for our members.
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Profitability is a key measure analyzed in the Dairy Farm Summary (DFS), published by four Northeast Farm Credit associations. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2009, the DFS has presented individual herd data averaged in a benchmark since 1979. T...
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For years I’ve been fascinated by the 500-cow dairy. They’re not small, yet not large either. They are a growing dairy.
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Earlier this year the Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence (CDE) conducted a survey of dairy producers throughout the state with hopes that the information gleaned will help Pennsylvania dairy stakeholder groups provide support, direction and resource...
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Dairy operations from coast-to-coast in the U.S. and Argentina will be featured at the 2009 World Dairy Expo, held at the Alliant Energy Center, September 29 to October 3.
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The following is a list of the seminars that will be part of World Dairy Expo’s 2009 Education Seminars.
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Editor’s note: This is one of two articles that will describe the struggles and experiences of an American dairyman managing a dairy in Kenya.
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Nearly 100 women left their families and farms to fend for themselves while they attended an event geared just for them. Chick Day is an expedition organized by Vita Plus Corporation that allows its female clients an opportunity to come together for a day...
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Penn State University’s Ag Progress Days took place August 18-20 at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, nine miles southwest of State College, Pennyslvania.
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Progressive Dairyman Editor Walt Cooley recently asked Jim Tillison, Chief Operating Officer Cooperatives Working Together, about the effectiveness of recent CWT herd retirements and the future of the program.
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Study: Pampered cows are healthier, more productive A new study by Cornell University shows that dairy cows using the DeLaval Swinging Cow Brush register higher milk production and lower clinical mastitis cases. The study compared different groups of cow...
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