Dairy Herd
Under revised air-quality Rule 4570, California dairies must cut silage emissions.
2011 prices could reach their second-highest level ever.
The state needs 60,000 more dairy cows to supply Leprino’s new cheese plant.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted 10 requests for export assistance to sell 1,637 metric tons (3.609 million pounds) to North Africa, the Middle East, Central America, and Asia.
Cheese provides only 5 percent of the calories in the U.S. diet, yet 21 percent of the calcium.
A bill to be introduced Feb. 21 in both houses of the Texas Legislature would allow raw milk producers to make home deliveries of their product and sell it at farmers’ markets.
If 2009 was the bottom and 2010 was a year of stability, this could be the year of recovery for Yakima Valley dairy producers.
A total of $18,000 was awarded today to the winners of the 2011 World Ag Expo Forage Challenge, presented by Mycogen Seeds.
The World Ag Expo, in Tulare, Calif., uses social media to connect with attendees.
Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act may impact cooperatives’ ability to offer price risk management tools to dairy producers.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 12 requests for export assistance from Darigold, Dairy Farmers of America, and United Dairymen of Arizona to sell 5.106 million pounds of Cheddar cheese to customers in North Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Europe, and Asia.
The return of global food inflation is one of 2011’s big stories, with much focus rightly turned to grain prices.
A cooperative project among Michigan dairy producers, educational institutions and government is providing practical lesson in controlling Johne’s disease.
An unprecedented private-public partnership signs a historical agreement with a committment to child health and wellness.
Republican Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Oklahoma’s Frank Lucas, has indicated a desire to address dairy policy this year.
USDA is reminding livestock producers that Federal assistance may be available to compensate for weather-related death and other losses.
A flush-flume sand settling system simplifies sand removal at 3-D Dairy.
The Midwest dairy processor paid out $6 million in cash patronage and equity revolvements in 2009 and the rest in 2010.
When Super Bowl XLV kicks off Feb. 6 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, football fans may be surprised to know how agriculture plays into the gridiron game plan.
Many factors contribute to rising feed costs: diet formulation, feed wastage, ingredient selection and purchasing. One frequently mentioned cost-cutting measure, because it is a direct cash cost, is to eliminate minerals and particularly trace mineral supplementation. However, all dairy diets need some supplementation as natural, home-raised feeds are usually low in most required trace minerals. Not supplementing will result in a moderate deficiency.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted seven requests for export assistance.
The new 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans encourages three daily servings of low-fat or fat-free milk and milk products for adults and children nine years and older.
Year-to-date January through November 2010, Egypt imported $99 million worth of U.S. dairy products.
The NMC Board of Directors voted to submit another proposal to NCIMS, again recommending a reduction in the SCC limit in the US to 400,000.
David Rings is a Kentucky farmer with about 200 head of certified Angus cattle. Last fall he sold seven steers to Eastern Livestock, one of the country’s biggest cattle brokers, for a total of $7,200. When Eastern’s check bounced, Rings discovered he was one of hundreds of sellers across 30 states who’d sold to the company, was out his money and was left with the distinct impression that something doesn’t smell right in cattle country.
JerseyBid.com, a new real-time online auction service, will be highlighted at the winter US Jersey seminar in Columbus, Ohio.
Mozzarella production accounted for the largest share.
Each year, U.S. federal inspectors find illegal levels of antibiotics in hundreds of older dairy cows bound for the slaughterhouse. Concerned that those antibiotics might also be contaminating milk, the Food and Drug Administration intended to begin tests this month on the milk from farms that had repeatedly sold cows tainted by drug residue. But the testing plan has met with fierce protest from the dairy industry,