Dairy Herd
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.
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.