Dairy Herd
Sassy Cow Creamery was just a dream for the Baerwolf families until 2008 when they changed that dream into a business reality. Working with the state and federally funded Dairy Business Innovation Center (DBIC), they finetuned the skills they would need to build a successful farmsteaddairy business.
Six global dairy organizations have formed the International Dairy Research Consortium for Nutrition and Health
Wisconsin’s Endres elected president of National All-Jersey Inc.
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.
The Israeli company S.A.E. Afikim (brand name afimilk) – and now S.A.E. Afikim USA, Inc. (afimilk USA) has announced that it is setting up an independent business to serve North America dairy farmers.
Crossbred Normande and Montbeliarde cows are well suited for grazing conditions.
DFA members and staff nationwide join fight against hunger.
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.
Following its move into China, the New Zealand dairy giant explores the possibility of building dairies in India.
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.
Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold will sell 1.354 million pounds of Cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack cheese to customers in Asia and Europe.
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.
Fair Oaks Farms’ new fleet will be nation’s largest long-haul operation using renewable energy.
Korea is currently the No. 2 export market for U.S. cheese.
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.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted seven requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold.
Repro Money is team-based and farmer-directed with reproduction at the center of the program.
Oregon has adopted what some say are the strictest toxic water pollution standards in the United States.
Wisconsin health officials apparently have found the source of bacteria that sickened 16 people attending a school event this month in Raymond.
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.
Ron Gibson, who milks 1,500 cows and farms 1,200 acres, has about 400 acres of land underwater.
Farmers cut back on herd rations because of ‘rock-bottom’ milk prices they receive.
While the U.S., Europe remain the world’s leading cheese producers, other countries are making inroads – and it’s still not enough to meet demand.
California Milk Advisory Board celebrates the nation’s leading dairy producers with Governor’s Proclamation.
School board also approves adding more vegetarian entrees to student menus.
Good review and refresher for every dairy producer and dairy employee who administers antibiotics to cattle.