Dairy Dispatch

• USDA Publishes Two Costs for the Same 200-Cow Herd. S.4906 Prices Milk Off One of Them.
  USDA reports two costs for a 200-cow herd: $27.21/cwt on full economic cost, $14.53 on operating costs alone. S.4906 would set price floors from produ […]
• $43,758 for Zero Extra Pounds — and 40 Dry Stalls That Pay Back in Months, Not Years
  The lights measured zero. The dry pen didn't. On a 250-cow herd that's 41 freshenings a year at $459 each — and one hour in the herd software to find […]
• Clark County Has 609 Dairy Herds and Pays 44¢/cwt to Haul Milk. Juneau County Has 36 and Pays $1.29.
  Wisconsin fell below 5,000 licensed herds on August 1. Federal payroll data shows what that thinning costs on a 120-cow milk check — and it depends on […]
• $51 to $90 a Cow in Wisconsin. Zero in Ontario. Same Tariff, Same Week.
  Canada's counter-tariffs are live. Extension puts Wisconsin at $51–$90 a cow. Ontario's formula has no tariff line at all — which sounds like protecti […]
• Finding a New Buyer Took Days. The $3.25/cwt They’d Already Lost Took Ten Months.
  Every one of Harrisburg's remaining shippers found a new processor within days. Not one of them got the unpaid milk back. Executive Summary: Penn […]