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Progressive Dairymen Articles

Article Name	Publication Date	Summary/Topics
1309 PD: What does a Gallon Milk Cost	25-Aug-09	1309 PD: What does a Gallon Milk Cost
Nailing down a milk price	7-Oct-09	Nailing down a milk price
Let’s agree on a few things about MPCs	9-Dec-09	Let’s agree on a few things about MPCs
Patty the milkmaid and other dairy fables	19-Jan-10	Patty the milkmaid and other dairy fables
Does DMI's MOU mean an IOU for producers?	3-Feb-10	Does DMI's MOU mean an IOU for producers?
A cat, travel through time and the price of milk	22-Feb-10	A cat, travel through time and the price of milk
My Farm for a Form	16-Mar-10	My Farm for a Form
Looking forward to a milk price	8-Apr-10	Looking forward to a milk price
You cannot coast down the hill in a broken cart	27-Apr-10	You cannot coast down the hill in a broken cart
Why dairymen absorb the CME's rough price ride	14-Mar-10	Why dairymen absorb the CME's rough price ride
A fight for the right to unite	6-Jun-10	A fight for the right to unite
A hand at stopping milk spilling	30-Jun-10	A hand at stopping milk spilling
What producers can learn from the Packers and Stockyards Act	13-Jul-10	What producers can learn from the Packers and Stockyards Act
Don’t look past the statehouse on issues affecting dairymen	11-Aug-10	Don’t look past the statehouse on issues affecting dairymen
Focus on the right thing	30-Sep-10	Focus on the right thing
Help where you find it; don’t move it to the table	21-Sep-10	We have to take life where we find it.
Chickens, chicken feed and power of government to control our farms	11-Oct-10	This article discusses the constitutionality of requiring producers to reduce production.
Humpty Dumpty and breaking eggs	28-Oct-10	Efforts at producers seeking relief from cooperatives and others under antitrust will end up costing producers
Be careful what you call it	12-Nov-10	Using Windell Willkie's comment "A good catchword can obscure analysis for 50 years" the article talks about volatility and price stability.
Good, better and best books for the New Year	7-Dec-10	Suggests a number of books to read
Cost plus a profit: The Holy Grail of dairy producer economics	27-Dec-10	A quiz regarding cost of production in various regions begins a discussion of what it means when some one talks about cost of production for milk in formulas.
Setting dairy policy priorities: A choice of failure or success	11-Jan-11	Success for dairy farms begins and ends on the farm, not with what Congress can do. There is too little money for farm programs to make a real difference for dairy farmers.
Will dairy’s dream of immigration reform happen?	3-Feb-11	Immigration reform does not look like it will be happening for dairy.
How much cheese is there in a hundred pounds of milk	25-Feb-11	Discusses how cheese prices translate into producer milk prices with end product pricing, yields and other factors. Shows how to derive an approximate percent of butterfat recovery from CDFA cost of manufacturing studies
Parity price: A policy of the past, a past full of history	16-Mar-11	People continue to compare current milk prices to "parity" but parity is based upon values a century ago and are irrelevant to any discussion.
Milk Quality: Who sets the rules?	7-Apr-11	The FDA and Federal government is increasingly replacing local and state goverments and the PMO in milk quality and safety.
Small Ball Can Score as Well as the Long Ball	27-Apr-11	Using the 1975 World Series as the narrative, explains how efforts at legislation can be as successful with small steps, small ball, as efforts that swing for the fences.
Elephant in the Milk House	17-May-11	Explains how the untenable position of dairymen as employers of immigrants is forcing them to relook at their hiring practices
Salvation from Disaster	7-Jun-11	Discusses how program payment limits are being imposed on programs.
Treatments that Kill	27-Jun-11	Ill advised treatments cannot solve problems, but can often be the problem. Likening the old effort to bleed patients to health this article sees milk supply controls drain production and profits from producers and a treatment that will kill the patient.
Batten down the hatches against 'freak' waves	15-Jul-11	The dairy industry is now sailing on a world ocean economy, not a domestic lake. It will face large waves with higher dairy exports and will be susceptible to world events ad much as domestic ones in setting producer prices.
Avoiding old wars	11-Aug-11	Generals always fight the last war. Details how things have changed dramatically since the last big farm bill of 1996 and how the old issues are no longer relevant. Uses the Overture of 1812 and Napoleon's wars to explain how it is important to look at the new farm will with a look at what is the dairy industry today.
Conservative showdown and a new dairy bill	26-Aug-11	The conservative Congress poses challenges to those seeking radical change to dairy legislation or even traditional payment programs. Recent dairy policy proposals illustrate how Democrats’ Paygo and Republicans’ Cutgo budget programs work differently.
Simplifying the system to find the money	20-Sep-11	Dairy farmers pay a lot due to the inefficiency of the marketing. Because they are not organized, those costs are pushed on to the farmers.
Make the right kind of investments	7-Oct-11	Dairy farmers need to build barriers on both sides to protect against the risks of price and cost of goods
Are you a victim or a victor?	1-Nov-11	Using the Johnstown Flood as an historical basis, this article challenges producers to be victors, not victims
How much does the farmer get when a consumer buys milk?	18-Nov-11	The program analyzes how a person can estimate what share of the retail bottle goes into producer's pockets
Progressive Dairyman Editors' Picks of 2011	20-Nov-11	Progressive Dairyman Editors' Picks of 2011
Finding our place in the world: A reading list for 2012	6-Dec-11	Reading list for 2012
The growing reach of child labor laws	30-Dec-11	This article addresses the proposed changes to farm employment of minors and the history of child labor
Are you ready for the secret ingredient?	19-Jan-12	This article poses the question to readers as to whether they are ready for the unexpected change in ownership of the family operation.
Selling the curds and whey	8-Feb-12	The different pricing and non pricing of whey in the various marketing systems in the US is causing disruption of the market
When is a pig not a pig?	1-Mar-12	This case discusses the Supreme Court case of Nat’l Meat Ass’n v. Harris which found portions of the California non ambulatory or downer law in violation of the Supremacy Clause

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