Challenges for Today’s Dairy Industry Producers As we all know far too well, high corn prices, by-product costs, and other feed expenses create challenges for producers in the dairy industry. Prices have continued to increase and are predicted to take a chomp out of 2022 profits. While feed costs may vary from year-to-year and region-to-region,…
It’s Unavoidable. So What Can You Do? Like death and taxes, there are some things on the dairy that are just unavoidable. Mycotoxins are a good example. There are more than 400 different strains of mycotoxins that could be present on a dairy farm, so avoiding them is usually a losing exercise. However, there are…
Tell us a little bit about yourself – family, hobbies, etc. I have a son, a daughter, and two grandchildren aged five and four. My son is a certified marine technologist and operates a marina on Long Island. My daughter is a Pre-Kindergarten teacher in Iowa. I lived on a boat on Long Island Sound…
Sustainable Dairy Award Winners – June 2022 VPP dairies honored for Sustainability: Name City State Year T & K Dairy Snyder TX 1st Goff Dairy Hobbs NM 2nd Southwind Hagerman NM 6th
Sustainable Dairy Award Winners – May 2022 VPP dairies honored for Sustainability: Name City State Year Descanco Dairy Hale Center TX 2nd Gold Star Dairy Hereford TX 2nd Andersen Dairy Declo ID 2nd Ted Baar Dairy Jerome ID 2nd Under the Hill Dairy Myton UT 2nd TJ Dairy Amherst TX 4th Rio Vista Farms Coolidge…