dairy production

Achieving profitability in the dairy industry today can seem like a game of dominoes. Every decision connects other aspects of your operation; sometimes in unforeseen ways. Profits require high levels of milk production, which requires a large amount of high-quality feed ...

Even before the financial challenges of the last two years, contraction of small and even medium sized dairies had been underway for some time.According to the 2017 Consensus of Agriculture, there were over 30,000 operations with fewer than 200 dairy cows, a drop of roughly 10,000 in roughly a decade... Read More ...

The trend of consolidation of dairy farms over the last two decades has primarily been steady. At the same time, the trend of the number of small dairy operations declining has been steady as well. That's not surprising information within a recent USDA study of  dairy industry consolidation. Re ...

According to the latest USDA projections, dairy production and prices are expected to increase later this year into 2021. "Pretty strong increases in our forecasts for cheese, for butter, and for non-fat dry milk," said World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair, Mark Jekanowski ...

Go on-line, or check out your social media feed, it seems like the livestock and production agriculture are among the first industries to come under fire for greenhouse gas emissions and environmental footprint. But one scientist at the University of California-Davis says that’s all wrong. ...

More dairy cows and more like per cow than a year ago. That adds up to U.S. production up 1.4% from April a year ago. "We expect production to continue to increase in to 2021," said USDA Outlook Chairman Mark Jekanowski. He added the dairy herd in April was slightly smaller than March, still 0 ...

What can the dairy industry expect in the coming year on the national level?   USDA analyst, Jerry Cessna, expects slow growth in milk production in 2020, at roughly 1.4%.  Cessna said despite more output, milk prices this year could be a little higher than they were in 2019.   “We shoul...

The USDA released its latest Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates on Friday.  Rod Bain has some of the highlights.       If you have a story idea for the Washington Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekradio.com  ...

Higher production generally means lower prices, but that might not be the case in the dairy industry.   USDA Outlook Board Chair Seth Meyer said they’ve seen some pretty spikes in production.   “Those cow numbers, we’re somewhere in the range of the highest cow numbers, or near the highest cow numbers, in the last 20 years. We’re looking at about 4.5...