Dairy Herd
Livestock producers need to be well aware of exactly what goes into their livestock feed rations.
Connie Tipton challenged industry leaders to focus on policies that will promote growth and profitability.
California congressman Dennis Cardoza named ranking member of the subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
The program will reduce dairies’ water-quality compliance costs by pooling monitoring efforts.
Deadline for the college scholarships is April 15.
A Columbia County dairy is using an outside $1.65 million investment to purchase land, double its size and build a processing plant. Milk Thistle Farm, a Ghent-based milk producer and bottler that’s popular in New York City, will move its herd and operations to a 250-acre farm off Allendale Road in Stuyvesant, near Kinderhook.
“The Holy Grail” of the agricultural calendar each month is the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Report.
Dairy producers sent 265,000 cows to slaughter in Federally inspected plants in December, 34,000 more (15%) than in December 2009
Year-over-year milk production increases slowly adjusting supply to demand, holding the all-milk price near 2010 level.
Rain that caused billions of dollars of destruction in Australia could propel wheat output in the fourth-largest exporter to a record next harvest and boost irrigated crops after floods swept parched land.
DFA and DMS allege the settlement will allow plaintiffs’ attorneys to pick “winners and losers” among dairy farmers
Things couldn’t have gone better for Wisconsin corn and soybean producers in 2010. For milk producers, they went a lot better than they did a year ago, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists in their 2011 Status of Wisconsin Agriculture report.
The Democratic Caucus named 20 Democrats, including 13 returning and seven new members, to the House Agriculture Committee.
For the year, milk production came in at 192.726 billion lb., a 1.8% increase over 2009.
Midwest dairy producers began losing money in December due to lower milk prices and rising feed costs,
Awards include Guest of Honor, Pioneer, Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder, Progressive Dairy Producer, and Graduate Production Award.
Awards include Guest of Honor, Pioneer, Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder, Progressive Dairy Producer, and Graduate Production.
Minnesota officials want dairy producer Michael Hartmann fined on contempt of court charges
Bovance, the cloning technology and genetic preservation leader in the bovine industry, has introduced a scholarship essay contest.
The Food and Drug Administration decided yesterday to delay its plan to test milk samples for animal drug residues.
In order to receive Milk Income Loss Contract payments for January, dairy producers must sign-up today at their local Farm Service Agency offices.
With Rhea County schools closed Tuesday, teacher Kathy Shaver took advantage of her day off to try to use her double coupons to fill her weekly grocery list.The avid coupon-clipper from Evensville, Tenn., cut the $58 list price of her food items to only $28 with trips to both the Publix and Bi-Lo supermarkets in Hixson. But many items on her grocery list weren’t available and may not be available until weather conditions improve.
Two chain stores announced Saturday that they had pulled U.S.beef products from their shelves following the news that a banned drug used to promote leanness in meat had been detected in beef imported from the U.S.
Feed The World: Warnings of a global food shortage are cropping up in the news. This should not be happening in 2011. But while our technologies have advanced, our politics are still prehistoric.
The long-awaited report backs off on recommendations to support California milk solids standards nationwide.
SEATTLE -- After 70-some years and four generations of milking cows in Washington’s Snohomish Valley, the Bartelheimers were the latest in a long list of dairy families who have called it quits. But the long, low barns had been empty for less than a week last month when the cows came home again.Today, the dairy is in operation as one of four rented locations Jeremy and Jerald Visser are using to expand their herd.
Yes - Zippy Duvall, president, Georgia Farm Bureau - Americans enjoy the safest, most diverse and affordable food supply of any nation in recorded history. No - Brian Riedl, Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs, The Heritage Foundation - Farm subsidies are outdated, unnecessary and unaffordable.
The 2011 all-milk price is forecast to average $16.10/cwt. to $16.90/cwt.
Gov. Jerry Brown appoints longtime agricultural advocate Karen Ross to head California’s Department of Food and Agriculture.