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Dairy princess recipes

Monday, May 10, 2021 2:14 PM

At one time, the Princess Kay of the Milky Way and county dairy princess programs emphasized cooking with dairy as a way to promote our industry’s products.

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Average feed costs rise more than $5 from 2020

Monday, May 10, 2021 1:35 PM

U.S. dairy farmers are feeling the squeeze. Average feed costs are up more than $5.00 per hundredweight compared to a year earlier, according to the April 23 Dairy and Food Market Analyst (DFMA).

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Photographs with memories

Monday, May 10, 2021 1:05 PM

Pictures surround us these days. They are on our screens, phones, papers, magazines and hanging on our walls. It wasn’t always so, at least not to the extent it is now.

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Fixing what is broken

Monday, May 10, 2021 1:04 PM

It’s been one of those weeks at our farm. No, it’s been one of those years or maybe a decade or possibly a century where there is always something in need of repair.

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Super facts about Minnesota’s super cows

Monday, May 10, 2021 12:45 PM

Minnesota DHIA published a list of the 64 top cows ranked by total lifetime pounds of fat and protein combined for 2020

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Graduation blues

Monday, May 10, 2021 12:44 PM

Ever since I can remember, I wanted to be a farmer like Dad. This might explain why I hated school.

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Roller coaster

Monday, May 10, 2021 12:38 PM

Five months ago, a doctor looked at my husband and I and spat out those forbidden, detested, ugly words that no one ever wants to hear: “Keith has cancer.”

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Bark, bark, the birds are back

Monday, May 10, 2021 12:38 PM

I take notice when I see the first of our killdeer return in early spring. Killdeer have brown upper feathers and white undersides with black bands around the eyes and chest and little white eyebrows.

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TEFAP to replace Farmers to Families Food Box Program

Monday, May 10, 2021 10:52 AM

The Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program will replace the United States Department of Agriculture Farmers to Families Food Box Program.

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Projected 2021 Class III, Class IV prices raised

Monday, April 26, 2021 2:23 PM

As I reported last week, the Agriculture Department raised its estimate on 2021 milk production in its latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report issued April 9, based “primarily on increased cow numbers.” Projected Class III and Class IV milk prices were also raised.

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