Jim Dickrell

Jim Dickrell is the editor Dairy Herd Management and is based in Monticello, Minn. He has 27 years of publication experience, and also operated his family’s Wisconsin family dairy farm for three years following graduation from the University of Wisconsin—River Falls. He also holds a Masters Degree from Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn.

Latest Stories
Where could the next food crisis occur: North Korea, Iran, Somalia—or even the United States?
Minneapolis newspaper editorial urges the banning of raw milk sales.
The afternoon panels testifying in the USDA and U.S. Department of Justice hearing on dairy market consolidation in offered a fascinating lesson in the dynamics of fluid milk markets.
The Internet lit up last week about a possible Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas tax on dairy cows that would amount to a $175 per cow annual fee simply for ruminating.
The cost of calling a local renderer is likely to go up in the very near future.
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Duane Alberts and his brothers David and Richard were in the eye of the 2013 maelstrom that left thousands of acres of Minnesota and Wisconsin alfalfa dead from winterkill.
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Supreme Court ruling could allow Roundup Ready Alfalfa planting in fall 2010
Imports from Mexico blamed.
Other areas of the U.S. aren’t so lucky. The Eastern corn belt have seen yields decline due to changing climate.
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled yesterday that pesticide drift is “intangible” and thus not trespassing.