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Byline: Mindy Ward Editor's note: This is the first of two articles with a Missouri dairy farmer who runs a low-cost dairy operation. On Tuesday, he shares lessons for young [...]

Byline: Mindy Ward Editor's note: This is the first of two articles with a Missouri dairy farmer who runs a low-cost dairy operation. On Tuesday, he shares lessons for young [...]

Byline: Mindy Ward Editor's note: This is the first of two articles with a Missouri dairy farmer who runs a low-cost dairy operation. On Tuesday, he shares lessons for young [...]

Byline: Mindy Ward Editor's note: This is the first of two articles with a Missouri dairy farmer who runs a low-cost dairy operation. On Tuesday, he shares lessons for young [...]

Byline: Mindy Ward Editor's note: This is the first of two articles with a Missouri dairy farmer who runs a low-cost dairy operation. On Tuesday, he shares lessons for young [...]

Byline: Mindy Ward Editor's note: This is the first of two articles with a Missouri dairy farmer who runs a low-cost dairy operation. On Tuesday, he shares lessons for young [...]

Recent articles in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel raise questions about the salaries of top executives at Dairy Management Inc., the group in charge of the national dairy checkoff based in [...]

Byline: Andrew Meredith Dairy farmers who are celebrating improved profits from the past 12 months need to prepare for rising costs by paying down debt or investing in efficiency measures. [...]

Suffolk dairy farmer Jonny Crickmore and his father Graham have built a bridge to access an extra 22ha of marshland for grazing, knocking up to 10p/litre off their cost of [...]

Byline: Mark Astley Mineral and vitamin supplements should take the forage base into account and reflect the total feed eaten by the animal Hefin Richards' tips on cutting ration costs [...]

Byline: Michael Priestley Rex Ward has lost 220 cows to bovine TB in 16 years. A Cornish dairy farmer says TB has cost his business in excess of [pounds sterling]1m [...]

* Dairy farmers' average margin over purchased feed fell to 17.49p/litre in September - 5.72p/litre down year-on-year, according to the latest figures from Promar Milkminder. This was despite feed costs [...]

Byline: Rhian Price Youngstock management and energy use were two areas identified where improvements can be made on many Welsh dairy farms at a Gelli Aur open day. Debbie James [...]

Byline: Rhian Price Buffer feeding dairy cows should only be undertaken when there are severe shortages in grass supply. Rhian Price finds out why Dairy farmers are being told to [...]

Byline: Gemma Claxton All dairy farmers, irrespective of yield, have the potential to lower cost of production by increasing milk from forage, according to latest research.An analysis of 50 herds [...]

Never have so many been owed so much by so few--at least according to farmers, who for years have been arguing that they are underpaid for milk by processors and [...]

Byline: Gemma Claxton Two years into trialling lucerne and dairy farmer James Foote has successfully reduced his bought-in feed costs by 8.7p a cow a day by producing a quality [...]

Byline: Philip Case Hundreds of dairy farmers from across Europe will be travelling to Germany this week to demand more flexibility in the milk supply chain and protest against milk [...]

Byline: Jeremy Hunt Dairy farm margins are tightening and efficient use of feed inputs has never been more important. So, a range of mixer wagon models that cost a third [...]

Byline: Caroline Stocks A livestock farmer in Cornwall has taken steps to safeguard himself against rising energy costs by installing ammonia-proof solar panels on his dairy unit. Stephen Bone, who [...]

A triple whammy of milk price cuts, rising costs and wet weather will force dairy farmers to quit the sector, a report warns. The average dairy farmer is set to [...]

Monitoring cull cow rate as a measure of dairy unit performance is meaningless and instead producers and advisers should focus on the economic argument for when to replace a cow [...]

what is milkbench+? * Internet benchmarking service for dairy farmers * Focuses on financial efficiency of input use and aims to highlight areas for savings * Costs covered: overheads, labour, [...]

Byline: FW reporters Water isn't always a cheap and plentiful resource and dairy farmers could save money through more efficient use and recycling Dairy farmers could save thousands of pounds [...]

* Information lacking on costs and benefits By Alistair Driver THE Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers has demanded more `basic information' on how a new independent animal health organisation [...]

This year's Dairy Farmer of the Future, Rob Harrison, farms in partnership with his wife Emma at Greystone Farm, just outside Moreton in Marsh, North Gloucestershire, and also rents further [...]

The deepest economic depression in the California dairy industry since the Great Depression has bared a subject far more compelling than the cost of feed and the price of milk. [...]

Despite the recent tumult in the topsy-turvy world of banking, British milk producers who can make a good case for capital investment are unlikely to have trouble raising the finance, [...]

INCREASINGLY, the most important financial detail for dairy farmers' borrowing proposals will be a knowledge of their projected unit production costs over, say, five years, taking into account the new [...]

Byline: Ian Ashbridge at the Dairy Event and Livestock Show Farmers Weekly used this week's Dairy Event and Livestock Show to take worried dairy farmers' concerns over sensitive information required […]

THE high cost of milk quota is one of the main factors limiting expansion of cow numbers on Canadian farms, said Ben Loewith of Summitholm Holsteins, Lynden, Ontario. He said [...]

Many dairy farmers are over-feeding and wasting minerals, according to Trouw Nutrition, and a visit to the company's stand at the Dairy Event could offer many the opportunity to reduce [...]