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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The key is to hedge regularly, but distant months.
Herds with 300 or more cows will need 180 days of manure storage.
The “30x20” effort hopes to grow the state’s milk production to 30 billion pounds by 2020, a 15% increase over the next eight years and a doubling of the annual rate of growth.
The program has gained widespread support from key organizations, including Elanco, the U.S. Dairy Export Council, the Center for Advanced Energy Studies/Idaho National Laboratory, USDA, the World Wildlife Fund, MilkPEP and the Dairy Research Institute.
Effective July 1, herds larger than the trigger levels will be required to have 180 days of manure storage, up from the current 120-day limit.
This online tool weights the answers to assess level of risk, depending on how a dairy actually implements antibiotic treatments.
Milking rations as low as 14% crude protein still yield 90 to 100 lb. of milk/cow/day.
If seasonally calved and housed outside year round, HoJos will produce 6% fewer greenhouse gases.
The High Plains Water District in the Texas panhandle is proposing to restrict water usage to 1.25 acre feet starting January 1, 2012.
8,000-cow manure processing center in Wisconsin has it all.