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This month’s announcement that Thiel Cheese & Ingredients of Hilbert was acquired by the Irish Dairy Board might have struck some people as a bit odd. Have the Irish run out of dairyfarmers or lost their historic knack for making cheese?Fear not. Cheese-making in Ireland is in tip-top shape, as they might say in Dublin. The purchase of a Wisconsin company by the Irish Dairy Board, a commercial cooperative, represents a strategic investment in a high-quality partner with strong research and innovation tools. For Thiel Cheese and its 66 employees, it means better access to markets in North America and abroad.

Executives shared how working through the dairy checkoff and its Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy helps drive dairy sales and protect dairy’s image.

These high producing herds netted $1.35/cwt in October, based on a milk price of $19.96/cwt, corn at $6.28/bu, soybean meal at $280/ton and alfalfa at $190/ton.

The farm bill process could revert to “normal,” meaning it could require hearings from the Ag Committees and mark-up procedures that have been part of all farm bills.

Implementing Johne’s control measures must become a part of daily routine, and followed year after year.

Our goal is to make disciplined and consistent decisions.

The single largest risk to any of our businesses is death. We have chosen to purchase life insurance to avail me or my partner the flexibility to unwind each other’s position in the business.

USDEC chairman: “South Korea is a classic case study in long-term, integrated market development programs executed collaboratively with processors to ensure dairymen have markets for our growing U.S. milk supply.”

National Milk Producers Federation’s annual event was the first cheese competition that utilized grading standards to improve cheese quality.

En una granja lechera todos los días hay que tomar múltiples decisiones respecto a lo que comerán las vacas, cuanto comerán, cuales vacas comerán determinado alimento y como se les va a mezclar y presentar el alimento a las mismas.