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Monday, May 16, 2022 2:16 PM

Spring has finally arrived. It is not because the robins are busy bouncing across my yard.

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Class III futures at record high of $25.05

Monday, May 16, 2022 2:03 PM

The Agriculture Department announced the April Federal order Class III milk price at $24.42 per hundredweight, up $1.97 from March, $6.75 above April 2021, highest Class III since July 2020, and 18 cents shy of the record high.

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Milk’s new look

Monday, May 16, 2022 1:46 PM

Not surprisingly, I sometimes feel I am obsessed with milk on our farm and household. I haul it, pour it, feed it to calves from a bottle, watch it stream from our cows’ udders into the milking system and listen to it get pumped into a tanker every other day.

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The shoe cobbler’s children

Monday, May 16, 2022 1:45 PM

There’s a saying I’ve heard from time to time that the shoe cobbler’s children are the worst shod.

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Milk per stall

Monday, May 16, 2022 1:44 PM

I am just going to say it right here. Milk per stall is not an appropriate measure of efficiency to use on a dairy farm. There seems to be a trend to use milk per stall this way, and I do not like it. Why not?

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Wedding woes

Monday, May 16, 2022 1:40 PM

Of all the fearsome creatures to inhabit the planet – and I am including such things as lions, tigers and IRS agents – none is more frightful to the average male than his wedding.

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Getting better

Monday, May 16, 2022 1:39 PM

I missed writing an article for the month of April. Previous articles were centered around the concept of how we get better. Well, for me April was, “How do I get better?”

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Hot mess

Monday, May 16, 2022 1:23 PM

People use the phrase, “Hot mess,” to describe many situations, but rarely is it used in the literal sense. We had a literal hot mess on our hands two weeks ago here on the ridge. Our machine/commodity shed went up in flames.

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What happens in May

Monday, May 16, 2022 1:22 PM

There are a lot of things that happen in the month of May. We usually finish planting but not this year.

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What dreams are made of

Monday, May 16, 2022 11:05 AM

This morning I woke up in a home that I share with my husband and four children. I got the kids on the bus while sipping hot coffee, and then headed out to the barn to milk cows with the new puppy trailing me.

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