Dairy - General
The owner of one of Vermont’s most prolific dairy farms has filed for bankruptcy protection.
In April, Grassland Dairy Products, located in Greenwood, Wisc., notified its producers they had until the end of the month to find a new processor.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will continue to defend the supply management system that protects the Canadian dairy industry in talks about revamping the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is easing its policy on some domestic milk products. It’s a change the dairy industry has been pushing for 20 years, but trade tension with Canada brought it to the forefront. Earlier this year, Canada changed its policy and stopped importing ultra-filtered (UF) milk products from the United States. Many processors, like Grassland Dairy Products, a processor in Wisconsin, were forced to drop all of its producers and those farmers scrambled to find a home.
Dairy farmers in various parts of Wisconsin experienced severe alfalfa winterkill and injury this past winter. Losses were the greatest on heavy soil types with poorer drainage.
When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was ratified back on Jan. 1, 1994, President Clinton was in the White House, Forrest Gump was talking about boxes of chocolates and World Dairy Expo had just celebrated its 25th year. Dairy exports were at roughly 3 percent of production and there was a groundswell of support for a formal supply management program to do something with the oversupply of milk.
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is pushing back hard against a statement by the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister on up-coming talks to re-negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
All eyes are on Washington D.C. this week as negotiations begin to “modernize” NAFTA, but getting on the same page will be step one.
Soil seems like a long way from the milk aisle but one Wisconsin dairyman is making caring for the land a top priority for producing a top product and turning into a partnership between rural and urban. For Jeff Endres of Endres BerryRidge Farms, the responsibility of a good producer goes further than just working with cattle -it starts in the soil.
Back in April, Grassland Dairy Products, a processor in Wisconsin, gave notice to dozens of dairies their contract would be terminated by the end of the month. The ax was all due to a change in Canada’s milk market, which would no longer take some U.S. products called ultra-filtered milk. The Wisconsin Department of Agricultural Trade and Consumer Protection says 58 dairies in the state were dropped, and all but two found new processors.
Some Jerome County residents are worried that plans for a big new University of Idaho-operated dairy could befoul the local air.
Dairy farmers, take note: The key to turning your dairy cow into a cash cow is udder happiness.
A total of 4,000 animals are expected to arrive within a month.
Billionaire to spend on sugar, rice and dairy production.
Washington farmer charged with animal abuse gets cows back
More than two dozen protesters on Monday showed support for two immigrant dairy farmers arrested after marching to a Ben & Jerry’s factory to call for better pay and living conditions on farms that provide milk to the ice cream maker.
Growers and dairies lobby for a path to legalization for the undocumented workers who power their businesses.
North Carolina milk inspectors showed excessive lenience by not penalizing dairy farmers, processors and transporters after finding hundreds of sanitation violations, many of them repeat problems, a state report released Wednesday said.
Yoplait’s sales are free falling, and its parent company is about to face even more competition in the dairy case.
Upstate NY dairy farmer co-op to buy Kraft Heinz plant
A judge has accepted a guilty plea in an investigation of illegal labor at dairies in Michigan’s Thumb region.
A commercial distributed by Arla Foods as part of a $30 million marketing campaign is now at the heart of a lawsuit by Eli Lilly and its subsidiary Elanco.
Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy is bustling, day in and day out. The family-owned dairy has expanded significantly since it was first established in 1946.
A cattle farmer in western North Carolina has been sentenced for dumping cow poop in a river.
From 1939 to 1959, the number of milk cows in the county went from 16,900 to 27,500. But the amount of milk produced in Greene County, Tenn. in 1959 was the same amount produced here in 2007 — when the number of milk cows had been slashed to about 5,000.
Having an Agriculture Secretary with on-the-farm experience has farmers and ranchers eager to see what Sonny Perdue can get done at USDA.
Federal authorities are investigating a former Cabot cheese employee suspected of stealing machine parts from the Vermont-based company and using them in his side business selling maple syrup production equipment.
At the moment, price expectations for 2017 are in a good spot, according to Naomi Blohm, senior market advisor with Stewart-Peterson.
Uncertainty in Washington is sending the dollar on a week of shaky trade. However, the currency found footing Wednesday as the Federal Reserve released meeting notes, signaling a June rate hike is likely.