Tag: dairy
Time for a checkup: Corn silage quality may be highly variable...
So for the feeding program on the farm, it's the time of the year when we need to do a checkup on the corn silage.
Better farm management in 30 seconds
Too many farms don’t have reliable systems in place to capture numbers that can help their bottom line. And sometimes, all it takes to track those numbers are 30 seconds, says OSU Extension Specialist Dianne Shoemaker.
Understanding the Margin Protection Program for Dairy
MPP-Dairy is more a partial protection against catastrophic losses than an effective risk management tool.
Dairy forums offer strategies for financial success
Penn State’s Extension Dairy Team will offer a dairy financial forum to help producers gain a better understanding of their dairy production and financial records starting in winter 2016.
Meadow Grove Farm: For Dan Hartzell, it’s not just family history,...
The Hartzell family broke ground for an addition to the freestall barn last fall and wrapped up construction this spring. The goal is to increase the herd to 300 Holsteins.
Without immigrants, milk prices would double
New report shows the significance of immigrant labor in the dairy industry.
It’s time for dairymen to get serious about tracking dollars
Milk producers are facing tight margins with today's low milk prices. Feed costs are certainly in the crosshairs, but all of the dollars are not disappearing into the feed mixer.
Team Reese
Memorial Day, 2014, the lives of a southcentral Pennsylvania dairy family were quickly turned upside down.
New York dairyman wins Obie Snider award
HARRISBURG — Douglas Evans, DVM, owner-operator of Sunny Acres Farm of Georgetown, N.Y., is the recipient of the 2015 Obie Snider Award, the top...
Watch your herd’s fuel (feed) economy
Milk prices are lower than they were a year ago, so marginal income over feed costs are going to be lower this year compared to last year. We really need to be managing input costs and feed efficiency on dairy farms.
