Preparing Your Farm for Winter

By Kim Clark, UNL Dairy Extension Educator

Although we may have seen tornado warnings for parts of Nebraska over Thanksgiving weekend, winter is coming soon which means cold temperatures, flying snow and ice.  If you haven’t started preparing for winter already, now is the time.  Below are some reminders as you prepare your animals and farm for the upcoming winter months. Continue...

NSDA Update

• 2017 NSDA convention is February 21 in Columbus, NE at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center.
• As we look forward to 2017, we will be watching activity at the Nebraska Legislature as it affects the dairy industry.  The NSDA has been participating in the Ag Leaders Working Group, studying the current situation with property taxes and working to develop solutions.  Watch for follow up information on this as we move into January. 
• I would like to remind everyone that entries for the Milk Production Awards were  recently mailed out and due back postmarked by December 31.  Awards will be passed out during the State Convention.
• We are also encouraging nominations for the dairy producer and dairy service awards.  If you have someone you feel needs to be recognized for their contribution to the Nebraska Dairy industry, please submit their names.

United Nations on Antibiotics: Huge Implications for Food

Health leaders around the world are using words like “historical” and “possible turning point” to describe a declaration passed by the UN General Assembly aiming to slow down the spread of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics. The declaration requires countries to come up with a two-year plan to protect the potency of antibiotics. Countries also need to create ways to monitor the use of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture, start curbing that use and begin developing new antibiotics that work. Continue...

• Analysis of balance sheets
• Cash-flow and budgeting
• Break-even cost analysis
• Analysis of investments
• Analysis of expansion
• Your cost/cwt