Dairy Herd
A ruling Thursday by France’s competition authority makes for rich reading, detailing a web of secret meetings, hand-written charts and phone exchanges over six years to fix prices on many of the yogurt-related goods on French supermarket shelves.
NAFTA provides unfettered access to Canadian market for U.S. high-protein milk ingredients—at least for now.
Yesterday the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed the birthdate of the beef cow in Alberta detected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Shipments of nonfat dry milk/skim milk powder rose, with sales to the Philippines approaching record highs.
Although most operations are back to normal, some dairies are dealing with barn damage from roofs that collapsed under heavy snow loads.
Jim Mulhern: A commitment to humane care is not only good for dairy cows but for consumers and dairy farmers as well.
Food prices are falling amid an outlook for bigger grain crops, rising milk output as well as a recovery in U.S. pork production.
Challenges related to the evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria have led to a new multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaborative endeavor, The Task Force on Antibiotic Resistance in Production Agriculture.
September’s decline was triggered by several worldwide developments, which have put U.S. dairy exports at a clear disadvantage.
A new advertising campaigning no longer ask consumers if they’ve ‘got milk?’, but instead tells them to “Milk Life.”
The global dairy manufacturer is using 15% less water to make its milk powder products.
Honoring their significant contributions to the beef and dairy cattle industry, David Bechtol, D.V.M., and Maarten Drost, D.V.M., were inducted into the Cattle Production Veterinarian Hall of Fame.
With prices slashed to below their cost of production, UK dairy producers fear for their future.
Nevada dairy producers now have security, say the Perazzo brothers.
Farmers, state officials and dairy industry experts are gathering at Cornell University for the 2014 Yogurt and Dairy Summit.
Help keep parasites from eating into profits with these simple steps.
Most producers were unaware their herd was at risk.
How long will it take for imports of cheese and butter to start to dampen U.S. dairy product prices?
As an independent consultant who works lockstep with cattle producers, I am impressed with the resilience and resourcefulness that stretches across cattle country.
The state Board of Animal Health has voted to adopt standards that align Indiana with a federal livestock identification program.
Grassland Dairy Products Inc. has been ordered to pay a $300,000 penalty to Wisconsin for violating state water pollution laws.
With an expanded portfolio that includes ELISA and PCR tests, IDEXX now offers BDVD testing solutions to fit every need.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the American Association of Extension Veterinarians are co-hosting the Extension session of the 2014 U.S. Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Symposium Aug. 3 at Texas A&M University.
Bob-White Systems recently added Milk ELISA testing for Pregnancy, Johne’s Disease and Leukosis to its offering of tests available from its Private Dairy and Food Lab.
University of Missouri student named 2014 National Winner of the Bayer Excellence in Communication Award.
A south-central Idaho milk processing company has agreed to pay a $170,000 fine for dumping wastewater with acidity levels high enough to damage Jerome’s wastewater treatment plant.
Just one supershedder in a feedlot pen can spread the bacteria to the hides of most of the other animals in the pen.
The New York Senate’s debate about declaring yogurt the state’s official snack was intended to teach a fourth-grade class about government. But it became a lesson on legislative silliness from David Lettermen and Jon Stewart.
Land O’ Lakes is planning to close one east-central Wisconsin cheese plant and expand another.
An Ohio-based cheese processor is investing nearly $20 million in a plant its purchased in central Wisconsin.