Dairy Herd
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) A dramatic increase in the price of hay and corn and low milk prices are putting some New Mexico dairies out of business.Dairy Producers of New Mexico President Luke Woelber tells the Albuquerque Journal (http://bit.ly/L7ZCIv ) that he knows of five dairies in the eastern and southern part of the state that have closed in the face of feed costs that have doubled in the past few years.
The Seattle-based Darigold, Inc. is closing its Salt Lake City milk processing plant by the end of July, laying off 96 employees.
The agreement combines the technical expertise of DeLaval representatives and dealers with the reproductive expertise of Genex staff.
Recent research indicates that the lysine availability of AminoShure-L is lower than originally projected.
The Novartis Cattle Vaccine Literature Library app provides fast and convenient access tomore than 50 product brochures, technical bulletins, journal articles and other reference tools.
Cornell University’s David Galton receives top award. Several others honored.
With European partner, the New Zealand company will establish a new cheese plant and a dairy ingredients factory in the Netherlands to supply its European and Asian customers.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 14 requests for export assistance from Darigold, Foremost Farms, Land O’Lakes, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative and United Dairymen of Arizona.
At the Litchfield academy, Lloyd Metzger, a dairy food scientist at South Dakota State, explains what’s required to produce and sell high quality milk.
Dairy’s baseline is $432 million over the next 10 years. That sounds like a big number. But not when it comes to government expenditures.
Lely introduces a robotic TMR mixer/feeder/pusher all-in-one, hands-free robotic machine.
But unfortunately, we have seen a decline in fluid milk sales, so we have to continue to find new ways to promote the product.
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.