Milk components and component pricing will be featured at Marshfield Dairy Day, Dec. 5 at the University of Wisconsin Marshfield Agricultural Research Station.

Everyone knows that Wisconsin is the Big Cheddar in U.S. cheese production. And now we’re on our way to becoming the First Feta, the Major Manchengo, or the Radical Roquefort.

About 60 years after it sold its dairy cow herd, the Spooner Agricultural Research Station is back in the dairy business.

The nation imported 66 million pounds of sheep’s milk cheese in 1994, valued at $118 million.

Most dairy producers did a good job of chopping haylage and corn silage to the recommended particle length, but forages often lost their “tickle factor” by spending too much time in the total mixed ration mixer, according to a survey by Irv Possin, Fond Du Lac County dairy/livestock agent.