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U.S. robotic milker sales are on pace this year, despite the drought, escalating feed prices and tight milk/feed margins.
An on-line tool to help dairy farmers evaluate their operations’s risk of spreading Johne’s disease is now available.
The series will include best-management practices for animal handling and movement, animal health diagnosis and treatment, and other topics.
The monitors are changing the way dairy producers detect heats and get early indications of health problems.
Some 1,400 to 1,800 fourth and fifth grade students will get their first ever look at where milk comes from.
This subsidiary specializes in providing producers an avenue for managing their herd’s reproductive goals through web-based management.
Dairy Today editor Jim Dickrell explains what happens to dairy policy now.
Drought, soaring feed costs, shrinking credit lines and red ink box in U.S. dairies.
Goal is to seek long-term solutions for state’s struggling dairy industry, with recommendations developed by year’s end.
Livestock producers affected by natural disasters need to keep thorough records of their livestock and feed losses.
Hurricane Isaac could offer enough moisture to to germinate and grow emergency fall grains such as oats, rye or wheat in the southeast and as far north as Missouri.
The race to create a better, less controversial biofuel has spawned plenty of research into a variety of potential new sources - including switchgrass, cornstalks and algae. One goal behind the next generation of ethanol fuel is to end the debate over whether crops that could be used for food or animal feed are being converted into fuel. It’s a debate that’s dogged traditional ethanol, made from corn. A team of Wisconsin researchers say they may have found an abundant and eminently Dairyland ingredient for ethanol - cow manure from the state’s dairyfarms. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a coalition of state firms have been awarded $7 million for bioenergy research that would use a manure byproduct to produce ethanol at a dairyfarm in Manitowoc County.The funding was awarded by the U.S. Energy and Agriculture departments through their joint biomass research-and-development initiative.
Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and David Scott (D-Ga.), would make dramatic changes to the farm bill’s dairy title by eliminating its market stabilization program.
Coalition wants farm bill to continue cost-share program to help upgrade equipment, decrease emissions and address federal air quality regulations.
Chobani chooses Twin Falls for its abundant milk supply, skilled labor force and tight knit local community.
Martha Hall Findlay, the former Liberal member of Parliament, has done the cause of clear thinking a favour by challenging one of the sacred cows of Canadian politics: the protectionist system that keeps the price of milk, eggs and poultry in this country much higher than it needs to be.
The Alpena County farm is quarantined, and no cattle may enter or leave the premises until testing clears the cattle and farm of the disease.
John Noble, a sixth generation dairyfarmer, got his first taste of the benefits of biogas about a decade ago, when he installed a small system on his Wyoming County farm.Now, Noble and a host of investors, including a handful of local farm families, are getting into biogas in a big way. Synergy Biogas, an entity owned by Florida-based renewable energy company CH4 Biogas, last week took the wraps off its new biogas power project, located on the 1,850-cow dairyfarm that Synergy owns in Wyoming County.
The plant will have a capacity of 30 tons per hour of whole milk powder, equivalent to more nearly 10 million pounds per day of milk.
National Milk Producers Federation promotes dairy reform package at its annual meeting.
The world’s leading dairy exporter will focus more tightly on emerging markets and products that meet growing consumer demand for dairy nutrition.
The event marks 45 years that Jersey breeders have competed on the colored shavings at Expo.
USDA raises milk production 700 million pounds from February, to 199.7 billion pounds, and lowers 2012 All-Milk Price to $17.60-$18.20 per cwt.
Cattle group says the legislation will prevent the government from picking minnow protection over agricultural production.
Co-op also posts second-highest earnings of $182 million.
A new mobile app will give World Ag Expo’s visitors a wealth of information for the Feb. 14-16 show in Tulare, Calif.
The updated nutrition standards require that low-fat or fat-free milk remain a part of every school meal.
The majority of Salmonella infections in herds are sneaky and often can go undetected for long periods of time in the form of subclinical salmonellosis.