Tom Quaife
4 rules for growing a business or industry
It seems paradoxical: When a company or industry tries to diversify beyond its core business, it actually diminishes its chances of successful growth.
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Another missed opportunity to improve milk quality
For the seventh time in 16 years, the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments has turned down a request to upgrade the standard for somatic cell count.
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USDA renews sustainability efforts with dairy industry
"No producers have been more out-front on these issues than the dairy producers," U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said at a press briefing on Wednesday. .
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Commentary: Are activists really in it for clean air?
Rather than seeing the farms work proactively with regulators, the activists would prefer to see “us have our names splashed in the newspaper saying we are guilty of something,” says one Washington State dairy producer.
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Air-quality solutions ― despite the activists
A voluntary monitoring program and software simulation models were among the solutions discussed Wednesday at the Western Dairy Air Quality Symposium in Boise, Idaho.
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Over 30,000 comments on artificial sweeteners in chocolate milk
A proposal to put artificial sweeteners in flavored milk has generated a fair amount of controversy -- and misunderstanding.
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Name game: Dairy faces challenges on several fronts
The European Union is challenging U.S. exports of mozzarella, parmesan, Romano and other types of cheese. Meanwhile, imitation dairy products are causing a rift here at home.
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Meteorologists: Don’t say ‘goodbye’ to drought just yet
According to the meteorologists at Planalytics, the drought may hang on in many of the areas already significantly impacted.
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Bad publicity for the dairy industry
Thursday evening, one of the featured stories on the Yahoo! home page showed a picture of milk jugs with the headline, “Controversial ingredient may be added to milk.”
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In trying to lure dairies, only one state brought a governor
“We’ve got lower feed costs than California, higher milk prices — on average, about $3 a hundredweight, sometimes as much as $4 a hundredweight better,” that particular governor told Dairy Herd Management.
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ObamaCare decisions loom for some farms
Although the Act doesn’t go into effect until next Jan. 1, management decisions that farms make in 2013 will have an impact on what they need to do in 2014.
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