Dairy Herd
EMMETSBURG, IOWA - Each fall in corn country, big combines prowl through the fields, stripping the valuable kernels from ears and spitting out bits of cornstalk, leaves and empty cobs.The residue, which used to lie on the ground and rot, has become a money crop for the next generation of biofuel.Poet LLC, the nation’s leading ethanol producer, says it is determined to open a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in 2013 next to its existing corn-ethanol plant in this northern Iowa community. The $250 million project could be the first such plant in the nation. Last month, the U.S. Energy Department conditionally committed to a $105 million loan guarantee for it."The technology is there -- it is definitely to the point where we can build the best-in-class plant, and the trick is getting these plants up,” said Brooke Coleman, executive director of the Advanced Ethanol Council, which represents many of the approximately dozen U.S. companies working to commercialize cellulosic ethanol.
Three attendees and an exhibitor tell what brings them back to Expo.
Farmers from Egypt, China, the UK and Peru tell why they come to Expo.
July Class 3 milk prices have reached an all-new level, beating the previous record set in July 2007.
With the political mood in Washington focused on cutting federal programs, it’s imperative to get dairy economic safety net reforms done right, says this California dairy leader.
Rabobank research shows California dairies, processors uniquely positioned to capitalize on growing global demand.
USDA announced the July Class III minimum price at $21.39/cwt.—breaking the record by a penny set in July 2007.
Tour teams dairy farmers and Easton Hamlin, 14-year-old country musician.
Darigold, Inc.'s Board of Directors has selected Jim Wegner to succeed retiring John Underwood as President and CEO of Northwest Dairy Association (NDA) and Darigold. The selection was announced to the organization’s approximately 550 member-owners and 1,600 employees on Friday, July 29. Wegner, previously Darigold’s Senior Vice President of Technical Services, assumed his new role on August 1. Underwood will serve as Special Executive to the Board of Directors and will assist with the transition.
“This amounts to an unexpected, unfair and unwarranted tax on dairy producers.”
The 3,200-cow dairy is expected to increase Fonterra’s overall milk production in China to 360 million cups of fresh milk every year.
The U.S. is ideally positioned to take advantage of this gap if it can get dairy policies realigned to be focused on the export market.
National dairy leader Jerry Kozak points out the inadequacy of the current program and the need for better dairy policy.
Kraft expects the deal to be done by the end of 2012.
At $23.62 per cwt., June 2011’s overall monthly dairy cost of production is the highest since 2008.
Livestock and poultry groups commend senators for asking Senate leadership to terminate the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit and tariff on imported ethanol as soon as possible.
At a feeding rate of 19 grams/cow/day, AminoShure-L delivers 6.2 gm of metabolizable protein for 11¢/cow/day
The well-monitoring effort is the most ambitious in the history of California’s dairy industry, and is the first such program of this scale in the U.S.
The Small Business Administration has provided financing in the amount of $725,735 for the expansion of a dairy operation in Carlisle, Pa. The recipient is the Garman Partnership, owners of Creekside Dairy, which has been in the Garman family for three generations.
Expansion will reach 12 million additional customers.
Cheese will go to customers in the Asia, the Middle East, Central America, Europe and the South Pacific.
Cheese-laden pizza was the food of choice when late night budget meetings dragged on beyond the dinner hour.
After focusing on moving earth for agriculture and industry for most of its 174-year history, Deere and Co. now is fighting for its place in the skies.
Land O’Lakes CEO Chris Policinski came to Washington recently to a conference of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) to discuss the importance of the U.S. government’s investment in overseas markets. Tough economic times have made increasing the country’s foreign aid budget a hard sell, Policinski said.
Dairymen are calling Netanyahu’s decision cruel and idiotic, and said that it will destroy dairy farming in Israel.
Dr. Sun led the development of hybrid alfalfa
Jim Crowley, Jr. has accepted the position of Dairy Cattle Show Superintendent for the 2012 show.
After months of document collection and analysis, the family sat down with their Legacy Project advisers to start sifting through options. What their advisers found shocked the Moes family.
But strong global demand supports the dairy market.
The global situation is different now for U.S. suppliers than it was in 2008 and 2009, exporting agency says.