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Global food: Waste not, want not
Suggestions offered for minimizing food waste.
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Heat stress in dairy calves
We can't control the weather, but we can make management changes to improve calf comfort and performance as the mercury rises.
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AFBF president issues statement on U.S.-EU trade negotiations
Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation issued a statement regarding the lauch of U.S.-EU trade negotiations.
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Buckle your seatbelt for the House consideration of the farm bill
The farm bill had a cakewalk through the Senate two weeks ago. Now it is swimming in a swamp infested with crocodiles as it tries to survive in the House of Representatives.
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Study: Federal milk marketing order would help Calif. producers
The findings of a five-month long study commissioned by California Dairies, Inc., Dairy Farmers of America, Inc., and Land O’Lakes, Inc. indicate that a properly written federal milk marketing order for California would provide a regulatory structure that would potentially result in higher farm gate prices, which would benefit California dairy farm families.
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Ag markets were generally mixed overnight trading
After rallying strongly to start this week, corn futures slipped in Tuesday night trading. The decline was partly a reaction to the preceding gains and partly a response to favorable growing conditions across the Corn Belt.
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Winterkill losses put pressure on forage supplies
In areas of Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, and Iowa, alfalfa winterkill is widespread. Agronomy professor Dan Undersander of the University of Wisconsin estimates that at least 1 million acres of alfalfa in Wisconsin and 0.75 to 1 million additional acres were winterkilled in Minnesota and the Dakotas.
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Weather report: Cool and rainy in the Plains
In the West, an enhanced wildfire risk persists in the Four Corners States, where hot weather prevails. On the Plains, scattered showers and thunderstorms continue to provide local drought relief in a few areas, including Texas’ northern panhandle and western sections of Oklahoma and Kansas. In the Corn Belt, dry weather favors late-season soybean plan ting. In the South, isolated rain showers are occurring from the central Gulf Coast region to the southern Atlantic Coast .
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Ag markets mixed again Tuesday
Tight old crop conditions seemed to support corn futures Tuesday morning, with wire service sources citing cash market strength, particularly in the western Corn Belt, for early CBOT gains.
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Behold, the power of Greek yogurt’s whey
Greek yogurt may have earned New York the title of “yogurt capital” of the country, but it is also helping the state harness energy through an unlikely product – whey.
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Milk and dairy product prices remain stable
The USDA showed in its latest "Livestock, Dairy and Poultry" report that June-projected corn prices were raised from May to $6.75 to $7.15 per bushel for 2012-2013. The 2013-2014 corn supplies were tightened in the June USDA forecasts.
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