Reports and Data Releases
Reports and Data Releases from Texas Dairy Dates: 12 articles for readers in Texas and beyond.
2026: A Year of Record Production and Price Pressure
What record milk production means for prices and margins, how Texas dairies can read market reports, and steps to…
Key Dates for the 2027 Farm Bill Debate
How the farm bill process works, where to confirm the real calendar of hearings and votes, and what dairy producers…
The Best Time to Harvest Corn Silage in Texas
Learn how Texas dairies decide when to chop corn silage, what moisture and kernel clues to check and how timing…
The Best Time to Vaccinate Your Herd
How to build a vaccination calendar for a dairy herd, tied to calving, breeding and calf age, and why your…
The Best Time to Test Your Forages
When and how to test forages on a Texas dairy: sampling at harvest, after fermentation and at feed-out, plus how…
The Best Time to Hire New Employees
When to hire on a Texas dairy, how to plan around seasonal workloads, where to find workers and what rules and safety…
The Best Time to Service Your Tractors
The best time to service tractors is before the work season, not during it. A practical timeline for oil, filters…
The Best Time to Review Your Feed Rations
When to review dairy feed rations: at set points each year and whenever feed quality, prices or herd condition…
The Timeline of the Next Co-op Merger
How a dairy cooperative merger usually unfolds, from rumors to member vote to integration, and the questions Texas…
The Timeline of the Next Farm Auction
From the decision to sell through auction day and settlement, here is how a farm auction unfolds and what Texas dairy…
The Timeline of a Bull’s Breeding Career
From selection and development to service and retirement, here is a plain timeline of a bull’s breeding career and how…
The Timeline of Ice Cream’s Production Process
Follow ice cream from milk and cream through mixing, pasteurizing, aging, freezing, hardening and delivery, with notes…