The Milkweed
Dairy’s best information and insights
P.O. Box 10, Brooklyn, WI 53521 · (608) 455-2400 © 2002 - 2013 The Milkweed all rights reserved

Inside the May issue: U.S. & global Dairy Walking Tightrope with No Safety Net … Wet, Cold Spring Clouds 2013 Crop Outlook … USDA to Start Issuing MILC Funds; Tight Money Stalls Fieldwork … April 2013 Class III Price $17.59 – Class IV Price $18.10 … DFA Hammered by Record $133,000,000 Loss in 2012 … Reflecting Critical Global Dairy Situation … NCIMS Again Rules Against 400,000/ml SCC for Grade A Milk … Q1 2013 Cheese Exports & Revenues +8%: But NO Price Increases Per Unit … China’s Protein Supply (Dairy, Meat) Facing Serious Challenges … China’s Infant Formula Demand Spike Explained: More Babies! … MPC “GRAS” Safety Petitions Withdrawn Due to Infant Formula Questions … Would FDA GRAS Approval for Infant Formula Open Door for Substandard, Imported MPCs? … A2 Milk – New Chapter of Dairy Health from an “Old Gene” … SMA Bleeding Southeast Members’ Milk Checks … Commodity Prices Up/Down: Industry Gauging “Spring Flush” & Global Events … Chinese “Organic” Imports: Not Good Enough for Pet Food … California’s Feb.-Mar. 2013 Milk Flow: -4% … Dairy just part of Farm Bill foolishness … Obama White House politics thick, troubling in D.C. … Global Dairy Prices Continue to Beat U.S. CME Prices by Wide Margin … Drought in NZ, Central U.S. Estimated to Persist Through 2013 … and much more!

The Milkweed reports what’s really happening in the U.S. dairy industry. You can’t afford to miss the real news affecting your bottom line!

Every month for the past 33 years, The Milkweed has been providing subscribers with facts and insights about events determining prices for dairy commodities and farm milk. No other dairy paper matches the high-caliber reporting found in The Milkweed.

Controversial? Yes! You’ll find that this paper names names and backs up its reporting with hard-to-find facts. Over the years, The Milkweed has documented:

You’ll read about trends in milk supplies and demand for dairy products, analysis of dairy animal price trends, the weather … and many other factors that influence milk prices and the dairy farmers’ profitability.

The Milkweed is written for the dairy farmer and other interested persons in the dairy industry. This paper is now in its 33^rd year of continuous publication, and counts about 6,000 subscribers. No advertising revenue influences this publication.

Get smart about your milk price. Put dairy’s best publication to work for you. Subscribe today.