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3 Pennsylvania Farms to Harness Power of Manure
California’s carbon credit program may wind its way to Pennsylvania’s dairy farms. Three local farms have installed manure digesters that will produce electricity by burning methane gas.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Amul to Take Taste of India to US, Europe
ANAND: The cradle of India’s White Revolution, the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd - better known as Amul Dairy - will now take the big leap of entering the US and European markets. The ‘Taste of India’ would reach the doorsteps of ethnic South Asians living abroad as the country’s premier dairy cooperative plans to set up manufacturing bases outside India.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to $8 Million Cattle Fraud Schemes
The following information was released by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri:Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Howard County, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to operating two cattle fraud schemes in which 28 victims, including The Callaway Bank in Fulton, Mo., as well as numerous individuals, lost nearly $8 million.Kevin Ray Asbury, 44, formerly of Howard County, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Matt J. Whitworth to a federal information that charges him with bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Op Ed: Victor Davis Hanson: Tear Down the Bloated USDA Bureaucracy
The Department of Agriculture no longer serves as a lifeline to millions of struggling homestead farmers. Instead, it is a vast, self-perpetuating postmodern bureaucracy with an amorphous budget of some $130 billion -- a sum far greater than the nation’s net farm income this year. In fact, the more the Agriculture Department has pontificated about family farmers, the more they have vanished -- comprising now only about 1 percent of the American population.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Extreme Weather, Food Shortages Move onto Agenda at Disaster Management Conference
The first six months of 2011 have brought image after image of human misery and ecological upheaval.Droughts, wildfires, twisters, floods, heat waves, extreme blizzards - just about every natural disaster you can imagine has hit just about every place on the planet.How to handle them, survive them and how to clean up and rebuild after them are among the many issues that will be on the agenda for the 21st World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM), to be held in Toronto Sunday through Wednesday.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Raw Milk Source of Illnesses at Wisconsin Eent
Wisconsin health officials apparently have found the source of bacteria that sickened 16 people attending a school event this month in Raymond.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Louisiana Dairy Farmers See Higher Prices, Higher Costs
KENTWOOD, La., June 14 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release:Louisiana dairyfarmers say this was beginning to look like the year they would make a little money, but now they are not so sure.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Greek Yogurt to the Rescue for NY Dairy Farmers
A decade ago, the domestic market for Greek yogurt, a thicker, more protein-laden version of traditional mass-market yogurt, barely existed. Within the past five years, however, it has exploded, and that’s been great news for New York’s dairy farmers. That’s because it can take three pounds of milk to make one pound of yogurt.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Op Ed: Canada’s Food Policies Wilting
OTTAWA -- With rare exceptions, discussions of food policy in Canada are limited to the joys of eating organic and how hard-pressed farmers need more help from the government. What you never hear is this: As a result of rising population and wealth, global demand for food is soaring and the world faces a food crisis unlike anything seen since the 1970s if food production does not grow rapidly. Canada is among the very few nations with the capacity to dramatically boost production.But we’re not. In fact, Canadian agriculture is stagnant. And politicians will not even discuss how we can change that.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Milked Dry in Montana
Brad Kamerman’s dairyfarm sits along a dusty and rolling road in western Gallatin County, his black-and-white Holstein cows visible to the occasional passerby. Milking there starts daily at 3 a.m. as cows file into pens where rubber tubes simultaneously do the work of a several farmhands, pumping the milk into refrigerated vats.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Larger Wisconsin Farms Keep Safety in Transition
MADISON, Wis. Cheryl Skjolaas’ morning routine is something that can either make or ruin her day. Over a cup of coffee, Skjolaas fires up her computer and pores over news from around Wisconsin, hoping that no news is good news .Skjolaas is an agriculture safety specialist for UW-Extension, and each day checks to see if there has been a farm accident somewhere in Wisconsin.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Treading Water; For Mississippi Delta’s Farmers, Great Flood of 2011 Is Far from Over
This was supposed to be a big year. Crop prices were up. The weather had cooperated, mostly, in the fall and the spring. Mid-South farmers had their fields ready and were looking to cash in. In fact, a lot of farmers were depending on 2011’s crop to make up for the low prices and bad weather of the past two years. Then the water came.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Washington Farm Exports Reach Recod Pace
Exports of Washington-grown products have reached a new high. From October 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011, the value of Washington-origin farm and seafood products set a record pace.Washington food exports were worth $1.91 billion in the last quarter of 2010, a figure matched in the first quarter of 2011.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Dairy Growth Fed By Goats
Fluctuating milk prices have long made dairyfarming a risky business, and when milk prices crashed in 2002, Chris Lekberg gave up. He sold his cows and bought goats. It turned out to be a wise decision. He now has more than 50 goats, and with growing demand for goat cheese, he gets a steady price for their milk from a nearby cheesemaker. While the big dairy states of Wisconsin and California have the most dairy goats, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, the industry is growing in New England as well.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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Corn Prices Fall as US Export Sales Plunge 35%
Corn prices fell Friday on concerns about global demand after the government reported a drop in export sales.
November 19, 2020 08:26 PM
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