Dairy Herd
Tepidly supports ‘growth management,’ urges SCC level reduced to 400,000
CWT accepted four requests for export assistance from Foremost Farms and Land O’Lakes to sell 683,000 lb. of Cheddar cheese to customers in Central America and the Middle East.
Dairy producers will welcome continuing strong demand and firm prices for their products in 2011-12. Rising incomes in China, the Russian Federation, the Middle East and Asia mean a greater appetite for dairy foods.
Lameness, hock lesions and hygiene scores were all better on deep-bedded recycled fiber.
Re-insemination of cows based on visual signs will usually result in more pregnancies than resynchronization protocols.
The Dairy Industry Advisory Committee voted today to approve a final report to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack offering recommendations on dairy farm profitability and milk prices.
A coalition of 90 agricultural businesses have sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging Congress to let the refundable Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit expire and to resist calls for spending on infrastructure for conventional biofuels.
The NMPF analysis shows that dairy farmers would have received at least $3 billion more revenue had the stabilization program been in place in 2009.
USDA announced this afternoon that the U.S. all-milk price for February was $18.40/cwt., up $1.70 from January and up $2.50 from a year ago.
Chairman and CEO Gregg Engles to assume operating responsibilities at leading U.S. dairy company.
Program recognizes and rewards graduating seniors planning a career related to dairy production.
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation applauds the Wisconsin State Senate for its passage of a bill that will help grow and modernize Wisconsin’s dairy and livestock industries.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement regarding today’s quarterly forecast for U.S. agriculturalexports, which are expected to reach a record $135.5 billion in fiscal year 2011:
A recovering global economy is good news for U.S. dairy exports, with 2010 U.S. sales growing 39% over 2009 to 1.5 million tons.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted two requests for export assistance from Darigold to sell 276 metric tons of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese to customers in Asia.
India, Feb. 23 -- After years of political wrangling by European Union policy makers, rising food prices may be putting genetically modified, or GM, food on the menu.Officials are set to vote later Tuesday on whether to allow trace amounts of unauthorized GM material in animal-feed imports, a move campaigners say could herald a shift in the bloc’s attitude to biotechnology and would mark a victory for the GM lobby, which has been pushing for a relaxation in the EU’s zerotolerance rules on imports for years. The pro-GM lobby argues current restrictions are hurting the profitability of raising livestock, in some cases making it uneconomic. The lobby says this puts thousands of jobs at risk by contributing to a supply crisis that is likely to raise meat prices for consumers already struggling with food-price inflation. Anti-GM groups, meanwhile, say the EU measure, should it pass, is the thin end of the wedge toward easing other safety regulations.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 10 requests for export assistance to sell 1.475 million pounds of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese to customers in Europe, the Middle East, Central America, and Asia.
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Bill Wailes’ passion for improving agriculture underscores his induction into the Colorado Agriculture Hall of Fame.
Alfalfa fiber technology, inoculant 11AFT, offers producers higher forage performance.
Purchase price is $270.5 million for Saputo, 12th largest dairy processor in the world.
The major food and beverage company expects dairy prices to climb through first half of 2011 before flattening out or declining in third and fourth quarters.
In Britain, surging grocery prices are painful, but not life-threatening. For much of the rest of the world, by contrast, food prices are a matter of life and death.
The January report also revealed that Idaho moved up to the Number 3 milk producing state in 2010, out producing New York by 66 million pounds of milk.
Consumers reported a slight preference for the nutritionally enhanced (California) milk over the federal standard milk overall (44% vs. 42%)
Modest herd expansion, robust exports also expected.
National Dairy Producers Organization says dairy farmers have not been properly represented in the industry.