Dairy Dispatch

• Under 20 Cows? $12.00/cwt of Your Cost Is You, Working for Free
  Your co-op check says you're losing $101,000 a year on 20 cows. USDA's own math says $12.00/cwt of that never left the checkbook. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:&n […]
• Holsteins Now Lose Milk at THI 69. Twenty Years Ago It Was 72.
  Your cows start giving up milk three points sooner than your father's did. That's not the weather changing — it's the genetics. And CDCB just skipped […]
• A Plant Closed, the Milk Kept Flowing, and Somebody Paid the Freight. Canterbury’s 204 Suppliers Are Next.
  St. Albans went dark today, and the milk still moves — the freight bill just changed hands. Canterbury's premium is 10 to 30 cents. Nobody has to anno […]
• Gay Lea Says $450 Million. BNN’s Host Said $250 Million. Nobody’s Reconciled It.
  Two numbers, $200M apart, for the same program. Meanwhile, $1.00/hL of retention runs $5,243 a year on an average Ontario farm — and nobody outside th […]
• $34.4 Million Later, the Rule That Hid Your Pay Price Is Still on the Books
  Private processors must itemize your deductions. Co-ops don't have to — and the exemption is one line of federal code. Two co-ops just paid $34.4M. Th […]