Dairy Herd
New study says short-term impact will cause rise in prices and drop in competitiveness.
$1.8 million effort will work to eliminate hunger and promote healthy food choices.
June’s milk output estimate shows the largest year-over-year increase since 1999.
The three-dairy family operation will ship all its milk to Texas plant.
Surplus milk, high feed costs push 2012 Pennsylvania average milk price $2.14 per cwt. below 2011.
Total costs, excluding labor and management, are running about $17.63/cwt for tie stall herds and right at $16 for midsized freestall operations.
“No consistent evidence that checkoff funded projects were more likely to support an obesity prevention benefit from dairy consumption.”
Genex Cooperative, Inc. introduced NuLife® ReBOUND™ and NuLife® Oral Electrolyte to Midwest cattle producers in fall 2011 and has now expanded product marketing throughout the U.S.
Editor:As a dairyfarmer in Pennsylvania for the past 30 years, I’ve lived through the ups and downs of this extremely volatile industry. In the past decade, dairyfarmers have experienced the highs of 2008 and 2010 and the extreme lows of 2003, 2006 and 2009, which was the worst year in the lifetime of most dairyfarmers, because the price we received for milk plummeted while production costs reached all-time high levels.
Bipartisan legislation would enable U.S. companies to expand exports to Russia when it joins the World Trade Organization this year.
Robert Switzer tells the story of his family’s dairy farm and captures the experience of millions of other family farmers over the course of the 20th century.
Regular, candid contact makes a big difference in how your lender can help you.
Dairies encouraged to apply for the $10,000 award.
Forty-six million Americans rely on food stamps to meet their nutritional needs. Most of the recipients are the unemployed, the elderly and children.
As governing Council opens, member countries briefed on world food situation.
The Senate is expected to begin debating this and other amendments to the Farm Bill this week.
The new $3 million facility will manufacture the company’s encapsulated lysine, marketed under the name LysiPEARLTM.
“We are on track to create a standalone Animal Health company by our previously stated target of July 2013.” --Ian Read, Pfizer Chairman and CEO
One identified offspring of a BSE cow has tested negative for the disease; calf ranch is also under investigation.
If you protect your margin between nine and 12 months to contract maturity, you will likely obtain a [milk-feed price] margin between $8 and $10/cwt.
Milk is long. Demand for cheese and butter is strong. Where does the market go from here?
Total U.S. dairy export value was $460 million, up 17% from year-earlier levels.
Influx of younger dairy farmers bodes well for the economy and environment.
Product is an extender for cottonseed in dairy feed.
Sarah Leonard joins several young farmers in Washington, D.C., to discuss the importance of the farm bill for the next generation of ag producers.
‘We created programs that can be customized by each dairy.’
Co-op officials don’t expect many, if any, farms to go out of business as a result of non-compliance since they expect USDA will readily grant derogations.
CWT has accepted eight requests for export assistance from Bongards, Darigold, Foremost Farms and United Dairymen of Arizona.