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National dairy leader Jerry Kozak points out the inadequacy of the current program and the need for better dairy policy.
Kraft expects the deal to be done by the end of 2012.
At $23.62 per cwt., June 2011’s overall monthly dairy cost of production is the highest since 2008.
Livestock and poultry groups commend senators for asking Senate leadership to terminate the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit and tariff on imported ethanol as soon as possible.
At a feeding rate of 19 grams/cow/day, AminoShure-L delivers 6.2 gm of metabolizable protein for 11¢/cow/day
The well-monitoring effort is the most ambitious in the history of California’s dairy industry, and is the first such program of this scale in the U.S.
The Small Business Administration has provided financing in the amount of $725,735 for the expansion of a dairy operation in Carlisle, Pa. The recipient is the Garman Partnership, owners of Creekside Dairy, which has been in the Garman family for three generations.
Expansion will reach 12 million additional customers.
Cheese will go to customers in the Asia, the Middle East, Central America, Europe and the South Pacific.
Cheese-laden pizza was the food of choice when late night budget meetings dragged on beyond the dinner hour.
After focusing on moving earth for agriculture and industry for most of its 174-year history, Deere and Co. now is fighting for its place in the skies.
Land O’Lakes CEO Chris Policinski came to Washington recently to a conference of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) to discuss the importance of the U.S. government’s investment in overseas markets. Tough economic times have made increasing the country’s foreign aid budget a hard sell, Policinski said.
Dairymen are calling Netanyahu’s decision cruel and idiotic, and said that it will destroy dairy farming in Israel.
Dr. Sun led the development of hybrid alfalfa
Jim Crowley, Jr. has accepted the position of Dairy Cattle Show Superintendent for the 2012 show.
After months of document collection and analysis, the family sat down with their Legacy Project advisers to start sifting through options. What their advisers found shocked the Moes family.
But strong global demand supports the dairy market.
The global situation is different now for U.S. suppliers than it was in 2008 and 2009, exporting agency says.
The thrust: To start a dialogue with 1,000 consumer “key influencers” about what is right about U.S. agriculture.
Beef cows were down 1 percent and replacement heifers down 5 percent. Meanwhile milk cows and replacement heifers numbers increased.
USDA forecasts dairy cow numbers to fall slightly in 2012, but milk production is expected to continue to climb.
Dairy’s nutritional benefits dovetail perfectly with aging-related health concerns, creating fertile ground for U.S. dairy sales.
FDA says Rhody Dairy administered drugs to its animals contrary to labeled directions and without a valid veterinarian-client-patient relationship.
The biggest concerns were over perceived unfairness of the margin protection insurance portion of the plan and market stabilization.
The New Zealand co-op, reportedly the largest milk processor in the world, has appointed Theo Spierings as its new CEO.
Most death losses were black coated cattle in open feedlots.
Cool, damp spring weather followed by the recent heat means that grasses are at increased likelihood of becoming infected with ergot bodies.
Grain futures prices traded on the Dalian and Zhengzhou commodity exchanges are expected to maintain at high levels though China has achieved an increase in summer grain output for the eighth year running this year, analysts say.
Mike Meier is a fourth-generation dairy farmer. Instead of feeding the cows all the grain they can handle, Meier uses an intensive grazing process that cuts his production costs dramatically.