Category: GENERAL

Are we seeing a seismic shift in the dairy industry?  Historically, herds have generated Holstein bull calves as a side effect of breeding their cows.  Now with sexed semen, the potential is to shift the calf population to...

  There was a nice jump is the price of protein for September.  Overall milk price should see a nice increase.    I II III IV Fat Protein Other Solids May 17.89 14.47 15.18 14.57 2.6239 1.8609 0.0742 June 18.70 15.48 15.21 14.91...

The October advanced Class I price rose by 8%.  Fat decreased 3%.   Class I Total Skim Butterfat Class II Skim Class II NFS Class I Skim BF Pricing Class III Skim Class iV Skim Prices Butter NFD Cheese Whey Sep-18 18.1 18.3 9.17...

Jim Aldrich posted a Pod Cast that he recorded and posted on the Consultant.  I made this post available on the General Industry side.  The link is below:...

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=dGhlY3d0Z3JvdXAxNkBnbWFpbC5jb20 Here is the link to the Calendar that is on CWT.   It should show up on your other Google Calendar at PUBLIC. I want to thank Tom Hickley (Feed...

Since we have a few new members in the “General” section,  I want to remind everyone that you receive a notification of a new post, but not for replies.  To see replies, click on your HOME page and you will see a...

I would like to know if those of you, who have used milk fatty acid analysis (De Novo, Mixed and Preformed) find it to be a useful tool to track responses to diet changes?  Do you think milk fatty acid profile can be used as a...

Class I decreased and Class III increased which means the PPD with decrease.  Fat increased a little but Protein and Other solids were the big winners. I II III IV Fat Protein Other Solids May 17.89 14.47 15.18 14.57 2.6239...

USDA released the advanced prices for September.   The NAS prices for butter was up 2.7%, NFDM and Cheese were up 4%  whey up 10%. Class I – $18.30/cwt up 4% Butter fat – $2.61/lb up 3% Overall, everything looks up  5-10% One of...

theCWTgroup is maintaining a calendar of major dairy events.  You can access it under the Calendar tab on the home screen.  If you want to integrate this calendar with your other calendars, you can click on the shareable link...