Dairy - General
The return of global food inflation is one of 2011’s big stories, with much focus rightly turned to grain prices.
A cooperative project among Michigan dairy producers, educational institutions and government is providing practical lesson in controlling Johne’s disease.
An unprecedented private-public partnership signs a historical agreement with a committment to child health and wellness.
Republican Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Oklahoma’s Frank Lucas, has indicated a desire to address dairy policy this year.
USDA is reminding livestock producers that Federal assistance may be available to compensate for weather-related death and other losses.
A flush-flume sand settling system simplifies sand removal at 3-D Dairy.
The Midwest dairy processor paid out $6 million in cash patronage and equity revolvements in 2009 and the rest in 2010.
When Super Bowl XLV kicks off Feb. 6 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, football fans may be surprised to know how agriculture plays into the gridiron game plan.
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 (CWT) accepted seven requests for export assistance.
The new 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans encourages three daily servings of low-fat or fat-free milk and milk products for adults and children nine years and older.
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.
JerseyBid.com, a new real-time online auction service, will be highlighted at the winter US Jersey seminar in Columbus, Ohio.
Mozzarella production accounted for the largest share.
Each year, U.S. federal inspectors find illegal levels of antibiotics in hundreds of older dairy cows bound for the slaughterhouse. Concerned that those antibiotics might also be contaminating milk, the Food and Drug Administration intended to begin tests this month on the milk from farms that had repeatedly sold cows tainted by drug residue. But the testing plan has met with fierce protest from the dairy industry,
Livestock producers need to be well aware of exactly what goes into their livestock feed rations.
Connie Tipton challenged industry leaders to focus on policies that will promote growth and profitability.
California congressman Dennis Cardoza named ranking member of the subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
The program will reduce dairies’ water-quality compliance costs by pooling monitoring efforts.
Deadline for the college scholarships is April 15.
A Columbia County dairy is using an outside $1.65 million investment to purchase land, double its size and build a processing plant. Milk Thistle Farm, a Ghent-based milk producer and bottler that’s popular in New York City, will move its herd and operations to a 250-acre farm off Allendale Road in Stuyvesant, near Kinderhook.
“The Holy Grail” of the agricultural calendar each month is the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Report.
Dairy producers sent 265,000 cows to slaughter in Federally inspected plants in December, 34,000 more (15%) than in December 2009
Year-over-year milk production increases slowly adjusting supply to demand, holding the all-milk price near 2010 level.
Rain that caused billions of dollars of destruction in Australia could propel wheat output in the fourth-largest exporter to a record next harvest and boost irrigated crops after floods swept parched land.
DFA and DMS allege the settlement will allow plaintiffs’ attorneys to pick “winners and losers” among dairy farmers
Things couldn’t have gone better for Wisconsin corn and soybean producers in 2010. For milk producers, they went a lot better than they did a year ago, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists in their 2011 Status of Wisconsin Agriculture report.