Current Issue of PD:
December 11, 2009
(site updated 12.10.09)
News and Business
Seasonal demand on the rise while milk supply tightens
Upper Midwest cream sent to supplement California supply
Plants scramble for supply
Cream prices bidding higher
Market reports
In the news
Proud to intern on a dairy
Challenge stretches students, yields better future
Let’s agree on a few things about MPCs
How to work with your lender during difficult times
Some things we can (and cannot) learn from squirrels in ’09
Ag bankers discuss opportunities in current challenges
Manage parlors for efficiency, health and productivity
How do you make buying decisions?
The boogey man in the milking parlor
It’s in your blood: The language of dairy farming
Progressive Events: Cow, people skills combine at Herdsperson Training
Progressive Events: Tours, workshops engage youth at leadership derby
New hires – December: Steve Schumacher
New hires – December: Elmo Wendorf
Children’s book focusing on dairy released
Industry news
New products
Dairy equipment innovator, marketer passes away
Issue Focus: Christmas
5 Things I can't do without
A Soldier’s Christmas
Merry Christmas in other languages
Dairy Christmas cards connect families across countries
Christmas Acrostic
A Kansas Christmas season in 1932
It’s Christmas Time
Timely Topic: Best of 2009
2009 year-in-review: Events that impacted dairy producers
Top 25 most-read 2009 articles
PD Departments
Editor's notes: Why a Nativity scene?
Yevet Tenney: Symbols of the Christmas story
Brad Nelson: Tales old and new
Baxter Black: Two kinds of dairymen
City boy cartoon
18 Reasons to Read
Analaine's Home Cooking
Crossword puzzle
Midwest/Northwest/Southwest insert
Communicate well during stressful times
How do you respond to a health crisis?
Improve reproductive performance with these opportunities
What is the structure of your family business?
Save electricity on the dairy
Smooth, supple, healthy teats – How to get them, how to keep them
Exploring possibilities
What are you going to give your dry cows for Christmas?
Baxter Black: Swine recycling
Mike Gangwer: Growing alfalfa in the desert
