Jim Dickrell

Jim Dickrell is the editor Dairy Herd Management and is based in Monticello, Minn. He has 27 years of publication experience, and also operated his family’s Wisconsin family dairy farm for three years following graduation from the University of Wisconsin—River Falls. He also holds a Masters Degree from Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn.

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Minnesota dairy farm linked to E. coli outbreak from raw milk.
Four in Minnesota sickened, including children, from E. coli in raw milk.
Fair Oaks milk trucks no longer use diesel. Instead, they head to dairy manufacturing plants to fill up.
Large dairy operations tend to have lower green house gas footprints because of more efficient feed conversion.
Study will look if bacteria has antibiotic resistance and whether bacteria survive manure processing and storage.
For every gallon of milk shipped from the front door of a dairy farm, around 2 gal. of liquid manure is produced and must be managed out the back door.
The net return from an integrated energy approach could be $50 to $200 per cow per year.
The driving force behind Farm Smart is to develop an easy-to-use tool that gives an accurate estimate of a farm’s carbon footprint.
Net returns per cow averaged $293 in 2012, down from $524 in 2011.
The gas is produced on farm through simple, but expensive, methane scrubbing technology.