Forum: Dairy Management

Hi, The daily dairy report said that income over feed costs has now reached $9.07/cwt. I am curious how this compares between conventional and...

I was just wondering if anybody knows of any research projects going on with once-a-day milking in the United States. I've seen many data sheets and...

Wondering how many people have Dairy comp and how they like it.

I send my calves to a heifer grower to be raised and bred until calving. To save a little I am looking at keeping a few of my crossbred calves here...

Hi, How many of you use LGM Dairy insurance for risk management? How does it compare to using options/futures? Thoughts?

What is it costing some of you to feed a holstein heifer from birth to breeding age and till first freshening? I just wondered approximatly, what...

Hopefully, things are looking up for the coming year. Dairies should be profitable again by Nov-dec. After some hard lessons this year, how will...

Anybody use seasonal intensive grazing systems? I have read some stuff on the internet about this, however, most is pretty old info (2007 and...

Why do we have to pay for advertizing and promotion? While in the meantime we don't have anything...0=zero= none to say about the price our products...

I am monkeying around with modeling Class I milk prices from 1918 to present. From 1918-1946 the milk prices averaged $2.62/cwt (SD = 0.58) with...

Lets say you have $X for investment in a farm and the balance would be loans. You can divide that money among the land, livestock, or other...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced that they will be scaling back their farm/business raids and focus their attention on Audits. The...

Does this program still exist, if so do any of you participate? If not, what happened to it?

We have seen an increasing number of dairyman visitors to Georgia looking to relocate dairies from CA, NM, Iowa, and LOTS from NZ. 5 NZ grazing...

Hello all we live in North Florida. We have 80 acres and are considering a dairy as a supplement to my retirement. I figured this may be a good time...

OK, easy, easy. I said easy!! I will not, repeat, I will not be held accountable for any regretable actions you decide to take following this...

Just currious.. What kind of electricity bills are we looking at? With rising costs of everything now days and such low milk prices... how much of an...

I have been selling our milk the last few years through D.M.S. We have the opportunity to sell direct{Dean] Our milk is mostly going there...

Does anyone currently farm like this or have knowledge of this practice? Another question does anyone think this would be a good way to try to start...