Dairy Herd
Retailers and consumers have demanded quality, and dairymen across the country are improving their on-farm techniques to meet this demand.
Fifty-seven counties produce 50% of all Federal Order and California milk, down from 62 counties just five years ago.
Alfalfa export volumes surged 14% last year. But rising cow numbers and reduced alfalfa acres also played a role in rising hay prices.
ATaranaki dairy automation specialist is challenging New Zealand academic opinion that denies the relevance here of an American study of LED lights.
Melinda Olson has given her 12-year-old son raw milk for years. When he walked away virtually unscathed from a serious bike accident last year, she credited his healthy diet of raw milkdairy products.Matthew Caldwell fed his 2-year-old son, Owen, raw milk in the spring of 2010. The boy was hospitalized for 13 days, victim of an E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak traced to raw milk producer Mike Hartmann.The two parents’ stories are bookends to a debate that is on high boil in Minnesota. One farmer accused of breaking state law barring the off-farm sale of raw milk, Alvin Schlangen, is slated for trial in July. Hartmann was hit with the same criminal milk charge last month, and also faces a civil suit from Caldwell.Raw milk isn’t pasteurized -- heat-treated to kill pathogens. Advocates see it as integral to a superior diet, and decry what they see as heavy-handed attempts to limit its free flow and punish suppliers. “This is about the freedom to choose the foods we want for our families,” said Olson of Richfield.
BouMatic Engineers designed GlacierChill controls to respond to the slightest variation in milk load.
Petitions contend the state’s producers are losing millions of dollars due to an undervalued whey factor in California’s milk pricing system. One cheesemaker calls the petitions’ demands “obscene.”
The dairy portion of the bill eliminates milk price supports and the Milk Income Loss Contract program.
USDA also reported that veal production is at a record low
Dave Forgey is an Indiana farmer by day, but he’ll be a famous milkman during Memorial Day weekend.
To compensate for the difference, dairy producers should delay first cutting, say Michigan State University Extension specialists.
World Dairy Expo to offer free look at eight U.S. dairies Oct. 2-6.
Dan MacSweeney**Position:**chief executive**Age:**56**Family:**married to Miriam with two sons**Hobbies:**team sports.....**Carbery Group****Location:**Ballineen, west Cork**Employees:**520**Turnover:**EUR 256.5 million in 2011**Shareholders:**West Cork Co-Ops (91 per cent), milk suppliers (9 per cent).....The Carbery Group has been based in the picturesque west Cork village of Ballineen since it was established in 1964. But in the intervening years, it has expanded around the world, and now has subsidiaries in south-east Asia, South America, the US and Britain.
State imposed the quarantine May 10 after several people became ill from consuming the dairy’s raw milk.
No anomalies found at dairies or in feed records.
NMPF working with ag committee leaders to expedite vote in Senate.
A modest production increase in 2013 could help support prices, USDA says.
In a trial utilizing four pens of about 320 cows each, UC-Davis graduate student Nadia Swanepoel fed four levels of canola meal.
She replaces Peggy Biltz, who is retiring after spending 27 years with Dairy Council of CA, 22 as chief executive officer.
John Noble, a sixth generation dairyfarmer, got his first taste of the benefits of biogas about a decade ago, when he installed a small system on his Wyoming County farm.Now, Noble and a host of investors, including a handful of local farm families, are getting into biogas in a big way. Synergy Biogas, an entity owned by Florida-based renewable energy company CH4 Biogas, last week took the wraps off its new biogas power project, located on the 1,850-cow dairyfarm that Synergy owns in Wyoming County.
Rising inventories are expected to keep downward pressure on international dairy markets in the second half of 2012.
Due to the drought in our area, it has been necessary to feed ingredients we never expected to feed, and to pay a lot more than we ever expected to pay.
Weather is the primary determinant of feeds grown and utilized at our dairies.
Indonesia has suspended several types of beef imports from the United States after a confirmed case of mad cow disease was found in a dairy cow in the US State of California.
When Mitt Romney said months ago that enforcing laws against employing illegal immigrants could lead to “self-deportation” by those workers, many critics scoffed.But according to a new Pew Hispanic Center study, that may be exactly what’s happening.Mexicans have stopped pouring into the United States, the study says, and the net numbers even indicate that they’re going back home. More than half of Mexican-born people in the U.S. are illegal, and Mexicans make up nearly 60 percent of all illegal immigrants here.Their migration, over 40 years, is the largest immigrant wave in terms of numbers in U.S. history.Many factors contribute to the reversal of net migration, according to the study, which analyzed government data from both countries. Among them are the weakened American job market, especially the construction industry; stepped-up border enforcement; a rise in deportations; greater danger crossing the border illegally; and a decline in Mexico’s birthrates.