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Year-to-date January through November 2010, Egypt imported $99 million worth of U.S. dairy products.

The NMC Board of Directors voted to submit another proposal to NCIMS, again recommending a reduction in the SCC limit in the US to 400,000.

David Rings is a Kentucky farmer with about 200 head of certified Angus cattle. Last fall he sold seven steers to Eastern Livestock, one of the country’s biggest cattle brokers, for a total of $7,200. When Eastern’s check bounced, Rings discovered he was one of hundreds of sellers across 30 states who’d sold to the company, was out his money and was left with the distinct impression that something doesn’t smell right in cattle country.

El periodo de transición, un momento critico

Many factors contribute to rising feed costs: diet formulation, feed wastage, ingredient selection and purchasing. One frequently mentioned cost-cutting measure, because it is a direct cash cost, is to eliminate minerals and particularly trace mineral supplementation. However, all dairy diets need some supplementation as natural, home-raised feeds are usually low in most required trace minerals. Not supplementing will result in a moderate deficiency.

Cooperatives Working Together has successfully reached an out-of-court settlement in its herd retirement program lawsuit.

Producer leaders of Dairy Management Inc., the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board and the United Dairy Industry Association announced.

Of the 22 recommendations proposed, 18 passed, two failed and two were tabled. Sixteen of the 18 recommendations that passed garnered at least two-thirds “yes” votes.

A state judge yesterday ruled against a Minnesota farmer who denied responsibility for an outbreak of illness from raw milk.

Strong export demand will mitigate downward dairy price pressure. But rising feed costs will still deteriorate margins in the first quarter of 2011.