Dairy - General
The rewards of brown midrib varieties are feed-cost savings and higher milk production.
‘A dairy producer should look for a forage testing lab that can provide solutions, not just numbers.’ -- Ralph Ward, Cumberland Valley Analytical Services
This is the eighth time since 1997 that the 400,000 cells/ml proposal has been rejected. NCIMS meets every other year.
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This is the third consecutive month dairy farmers will receive a MILC payment.
Scott Bentley is the new General Manager effective June 3, 2013.
Snowpack water content only 17% of normal.
Consumer Action, the Consumer Federation of America and the National Consumers League urged Senate and House Ag Committees) to reject supply management.
The cooperative’s Alma Center, Wis., plant will close permanently and its Waumandee, Wis., cheddar cheese plant will be idled indefinitely.
‘What processors claim is a compromise is nothing more than a costly ruse.’ --National Milk Producers Federation
It’s the first U.S. casein production in more than 50 years.
Closure of slaughter plant in Quebec, Canada last year could be distorting U.S. cow slaughter numbers.
Year-to-date, CWT sales are the equivalent of 1.599 billion pounds of milk--more than USDA’s projected increase in milk marketings for all of 2013.
Some 3,000 dairy farms are up for renewal in the coming months.
Inaction puts U.S. “behind the curve."--Jerry Kozak, National Milk Producers Federation.
The state’s dairy producer and processor sectors each say their very survival is at stake if AB31 doesn’t go their way.
Year-to-date, some 27,000 more cows have been slaughtered than in 2012.
The program recognizes dairy farms and businesses that advance the industry’s commitment to healthy products, healthy communities and a healthy planet.
University of Wisconsin dairy economists predict a recovery period for dairies.
CWT has accepted 9 requests for export assistance from Darigold, Foremost Farms, and United Dairymen of Arizona for customers in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
One objective is to explore innovative ways to use products previously considered waste streams from dairy production, processing and handling.
Milk powder prices have risen more than 50% since early March, and butterfat and whey prices have posted double-digit increases.
Bringing the dryer online is a milestone for the Seattle-based company after a fire destroyed the dryer in February 2012.
California production was down 3.3% in March from year earlier. Wisconsin, the No. 2 dairy state, was up 3%.
South Dakota alfalfa producers have two new varieties to consider this growing season.