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The Department of Agriculture no longer serves as a lifeline to millions of struggling homestead farmers. Instead, it is a vast, self-perpetuating postmodern bureaucracy with an amorphous budget of some $130 billion -- a sum far greater than the nation’s net farm income this year. In fact, the more the Agriculture Department has pontificated about family farmers, the more they have vanished -- comprising now only about 1 percent of the American population.
Fair Oaks Farms’ new fleet will be nation’s largest long-haul operation using renewable energy.
Korea is currently the No. 2 export market for U.S. cheese.
The first six months of 2011 have brought image after image of human misery and ecological upheaval.Droughts, wildfires, twisters, floods, heat waves, extreme blizzards - just about every natural disaster you can imagine has hit just about every place on the planet.How to handle them, survive them and how to clean up and rebuild after them are among the many issues that will be on the agenda for the 21st World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM), to be held in Toronto Sunday through Wednesday.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted seven requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold.
Repro Money is team-based and farmer-directed with reproduction at the center of the program.
Oregon has adopted what some say are the strictest toxic water pollution standards in the United States.
Wisconsin health officials apparently have found the source of bacteria that sickened 16 people attending a school event this month in Raymond.
KENTWOOD, La., June 14 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release:Louisiana dairyfarmers say this was beginning to look like the year they would make a little money, but now they are not so sure.
Ron Gibson, who milks 1,500 cows and farms 1,200 acres, has about 400 acres of land underwater.
Farmers cut back on herd rations because of ‘rock-bottom’ milk prices they receive.
While the U.S., Europe remain the world’s leading cheese producers, other countries are making inroads – and it’s still not enough to meet demand.
California Milk Advisory Board celebrates the nation’s leading dairy producers with Governor’s Proclamation.
School board also approves adding more vegetarian entrees to student menus.
Good review and refresher for every dairy producer and dairy employee who administers antibiotics to cattle.
Recent research reveals how Kentucky’s dairies regularly keep their somatic cell counts below 250,000.
First-time visitors had the largest improvement in impression scores after their visits.
USDA forecasts soaring feed costs, strong demand and high milk prices this year and next.
This is the third consecutive month where percentage growth trailed year earlier increases.
New online tools can help Wisconsin farmers know when conditions are right to spread manure on their land
A decade ago, the domestic market for Greek yogurt, a thicker, more protein-laden version of traditional mass-market yogurt, barely existed. Within the past five years, however, it has exploded, and that’s been great news for New York’s dairy farmers. That’s because it can take three pounds of milk to make one pound of yogurt.
OTTAWA -- With rare exceptions, discussions of food policy in Canada are limited to the joys of eating organic and how hard-pressed farmers need more help from the government. What you never hear is this: As a result of rising population and wealth, global demand for food is soaring and the world faces a food crisis unlike anything seen since the 1970s if food production does not grow rapidly. Canada is among the very few nations with the capacity to dramatically boost production.But we’re not. In fact, Canadian agriculture is stagnant. And politicians will not even discuss how we can change that.
CWT accepted 11 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold to sell a total of 1,587 metric tons of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese.
Brad Kamerman’s dairyfarm sits along a dusty and rolling road in western Gallatin County, his black-and-white Holstein cows visible to the occasional passerby. Milking there starts daily at 3 a.m. as cows file into pens where rubber tubes simultaneously do the work of a several farmhands, pumping the milk into refrigerated vats.
Shipments will head to Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Central America.
Nominations are now being accepted for the title of the Innovative Dairy Farmer of the Year,co-sponsored by IDFA and Dairy Today magazine.