Top 10 dietary trends that could impact dairy
This week, the Dairy Council of California released an updated list of dietary and consumer trends that are likely to impact the dairy industry in the next one to three years.
Topping the list, an acknowledgement of skyrocketing diabetes rates and how they will impact the health of Americans.
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Put ag spending in perspective
Policy debates are currently dominated by the budget. While this is true regardless of whether or not the topic is agriculture related spending, the heat has been put on ag spending — specifically farm programs — in many recent popular press articles. It is not difficult to find criticisms of farm programs and claims of their partisan motivations, and attacks against proposals which seem light on farm program spending cuts.
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Try this dairy beef management tutorial
Dairy cows represent a major source of the U.S. beef supply. Cows marketed to slaughter can represent up to 15 percent of a dairy's income. In the Western states alone, over 800,000 head (worth about $500 million) are marketed to slaughter every year.
This is important to you because new demands on meat packers, resulting from implementation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point plans, have focused their attention on the quality of cattle coming into the packing plant. And that includes dairy cattle.
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Salmonella found inside Minnesota dairy
A grade B dairy in Winthrop, MN owned by the giant milk-marketing cooperative known as Dairy Farmers of America was found contaminated with Salmonella senftenberg during a routine inspection.
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Retail Dairy Prices: Milk Reaches New High For The Year With Nominal Gains
Retail milk prices improved by a little more than half a cent per fortified gallon in November, increasing to $3.327 per gallon. Milk increased for the second month in a row and remains above the 27-month average by 7 cents.
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Retail milk price comparisons
The American Farm Bureau’s recently-released quarterly market basket survey had some interesting retail milk pricing details.
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Retail Milk Prices Jump 13 Cents In January
Retail milk prices up to 3.24; highest in 10 months.
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Retail Dairy Prices: Milk Up; Ice Cream Down
Retail milk prices up 8 cents in December. Ice cream down 20 cents.
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Pa. dairy farmers get boost at retail level
The Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board has raised the retail milk price 4 cents per gallon in an effort to help dairy farmers. One farmer says it won’t work.
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Conspiracy theories begin to bubble up
Does the gap between farm-gate and retail milk prices bode something sinister?
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Schumer wants probe of retail milk prices
U.S. Senator asks why a decline in retail milk prices hasn't matched the drop in what farmers are paid.
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