Dairy Dispatch

• Washington Confirms 43 H5N1 Dairy Herds. Check Your ELAP Dates.
  WSDA's table now lists 43 herds, each dated by confirmation. ELAP looks back 14 days from sample collection. Start your removal log there, and file 20 […]
• Preventing Three Departures at US$4,000 Each Leaves a US$20,000 Retention Program Short
  Three targeted departures, US$4,000 saved on each. Stop all three and you've saved US$12,000 against a US$20,000 bill—US$8,000 short. Bullvine's math […]
• Lactanet’s Valacta Split Covers 45% of Recorded Cows and Has No Start Date
  Valacta's 2025 territory held 2,807 herds and 255,062 recorded cows. Lactanet says Valacta relaunches there, but names no start date. Get price and da […]
• In Memoriam: Bill Peck, Who Bred No. 1 Bulls in Two Breeds at Welcome Stock Farm, Dies at 90
  William H. "Bill" Peck, who bred No. 1 bulls in both the Guernsey and Holstein breeds, died peacefully at his home in Bacon Hill, New York, on Novembe […]
• USDA’s LRP at 95% Pays on a Steer Index, Not Beef-on-Dairy Calf Prices
  LRP insures your newborn calves at 60 to 99 lb. The index it pays on is built from 700- to 899-lb feeder steers. Pull your last settlement and see whi […]