Dairy - General
Midwest dairy producers began losing money in December due to lower milk prices and rising feed costs,
Awards include Guest of Honor, Pioneer, Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder, Progressive Dairy Producer, and Graduate Production Award.
Awards include Guest of Honor, Pioneer, Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder, Progressive Dairy Producer, and Graduate Production.
The Democratic Caucus named 20 Democrats, including 13 returning and seven new members, to the House Agriculture Committee.
For the year, milk production came in at 192.726 billion lb., a 1.8% increase over 2009.
Minnesota officials want dairy producer Michael Hartmann fined on contempt of court charges
Bovance, the cloning technology and genetic preservation leader in the bovine industry, has introduced a scholarship essay contest.
The Food and Drug Administration decided yesterday to delay its plan to test milk samples for animal drug residues.
In order to receive Milk Income Loss Contract payments for January, dairy producers must sign-up today at their local Farm Service Agency offices.
With Rhea County schools closed Tuesday, teacher Kathy Shaver took advantage of her day off to try to use her double coupons to fill her weekly grocery list.The avid coupon-clipper from Evensville, Tenn., cut the $58 list price of her food items to only $28 with trips to both the Publix and Bi-Lo supermarkets in Hixson. But many items on her grocery list weren’t available and may not be available until weather conditions improve.
Two chain stores announced Saturday that they had pulled U.S.beef products from their shelves following the news that a banned drug used to promote leanness in meat had been detected in beef imported from the U.S.
Feed The World: Warnings of a global food shortage are cropping up in the news. This should not be happening in 2011. But while our technologies have advanced, our politics are still prehistoric.
The long-awaited report backs off on recommendations to support California milk solids standards nationwide.
SEATTLE -- After 70-some years and four generations of milking cows in Washington’s Snohomish Valley, the Bartelheimers were the latest in a long list of dairy families who have called it quits. But the long, low barns had been empty for less than a week last month when the cows came home again.Today, the dairy is in operation as one of four rented locations Jeremy and Jerald Visser are using to expand their herd.
Yes - Zippy Duvall, president, Georgia Farm Bureau - Americans enjoy the safest, most diverse and affordable food supply of any nation in recorded history. No - Brian Riedl, Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs, The Heritage Foundation - Farm subsidies are outdated, unnecessary and unaffordable.
The 2011 all-milk price is forecast to average $16.10/cwt. to $16.90/cwt.
Gov. Jerry Brown appoints longtime agricultural advocate Karen Ross to head California’s Department of Food and Agriculture.
State ag director Katy Coba looks forward to the challenges and opportunities ahead.
If you’re trying to grow corn silage on drought-prone soils or where irrigation is an issue, forage sorghum types are worth consideration.
Can the U.S. afford to continue to be reactive on somatic cell counts, animal identification and disease tracking, and chronic bovine diseases?
Summary highlights dairy industry’s efforts to increase economic, environmental and social sustainability.
FDA will begin on-farm drug testing of milk on 900 dairy farms that previously had drug residues found in meat.
“Bottom line, if milk quality is not important to you, you’re probably in the wrong business,” says dairy producer Dave Sumrall.
USDA’s Dairy Industry Advisory Committee votes. Of the 22 recommendations proposed, 18 passed, two failed and two were tabled.
Oklahoma congressman wants to prevent EPA “from imposing standards which would cripple American agriculture.”
The highest stocking rate is producing 26% more milk for the SAME net income as compared to the lowest stocking rate!
(RTTNews) - Global food prices rose to a record high in December 2010, according to a monthly report released by UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) on Wednesday.
Strong export growth experienced across the nation in 2010 was capped by record numbers at many larger ports in November and the momentum is likely to continue in 2011, reports The Journal of Commerce.
Only vaccine labeled to reduce prevalence and shedding of E. coli O157 at the source.