Dairy - General
Expo’s reigning Supreme Champion quietly goes about the business of winning.
“As a direct result of IDFA and its consultant working with the Mexican government, the tariffs on cheese have been reduced from the initially proposed rate of 125 percent to 25 percent,” said Clay Hough, IDFA senior group vice president.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted six requests from members for assistance in selling cheese and butter to customers in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
July’s 3% increase in U.S. milk production over year-ago levels surpassed the expectations of many market watchers.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted a total of nine bids from members for assistance in selling cheese, butter and anhydrous milkfat to customers in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
Pennsylvania State University researchers are experimenting with sophisticated diets to reduce harmful pollutants that emerge from, ahem, both ends of the cow.
The National Milk Producers Federation and the U.S. Dairy Export Council expressed great disappointment at today’s announcement by the Mexican government that it would impose tariffs of 20% to 25% on several major categories of U.S. exports to Mexico, including many cheeses.
Changes to the cattle passport rules were urged yesterday to make the offspring of cloned cattle more readily identifiable to farmers and meat processors.The National Beef Association (NBA) made the demand for clearer information on the passports that accompany all cattle from birth to slaughter.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted three bids from Dairy Farmers of America and three bids from Land O’Lakes for a total of 644 metric tons (1.4 million pounds) of butter and anhydrous milkfat (AMF) to Europe, the Caribbean, and Central America.
Farmers Feed the U.S. campaign explains how food is produced, and offers a sweepstakes to win groceries for a year.
Cydectin, marketed by Boehringer Ingelheim, announced this week it became the livestock industry’s first sponsor of Wounded Warrior Project.
Dairy farmers sent 42,000 fewer cull cows to slaughter in June than they did a year ago, a 16% reduction in culling
Cooperatives Working Together will now include butter and anhydrous milkfat as products eligible for export assistance.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has are received a letter signed by 75 Members of Congress urging USDA to allow limited planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa.
“Is competition healthy enough to protect farmers, and if not, what do we do about it?” Sen. Herb Kohl’s question at the USDA–Department of Justice hearing on dairy industry consolidation sums up a never-ending debate.
National Dairy Shrine will provide more than $40,000 of scholarship awards
Dairy Management Inc. and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy announced today the formation of the Dairy Research Institute.
DeLaval produced its 5,000th Voluntary Milking System.
The University of Kentucky recently posted a series of videos to help dairy producers manage milk quality.
The National Milk Producers Federation provided more detail on the organization’s Foundation for the Future plan, which is intended to change U.S. dairy policy direction.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said it will investigate reports that milk from a cow produced from a cloned parent is on sale in Britain.The International Herald Tribune reported that a British dairyfarmer - who wished to remain anonymous - admitted using milk from a cow bred from a clone as part of his daily production.
Farmers and water agencies in California’s Central Valley are applauding yesterday’s ruling by a federal judge that water restrictions meant to protect endangered salmon and other species are based on flawed science.
HSUS donated less than 0.5% of its budget to local pet shelters and humane societies in 2008.
Ohio law enforcement officers converged on Conklin Dairy Farms Monday, this time to protect the owners, workers and property from threatened violence from animal rights groups.
Hartmann Dairy Farm, Gibbon, Minn., has been embargoed from selling dairy products following confirmation that E. coli bacteria in raw milk that sickened five people came from the farm.
Ohio dairy employee pleads not guilty to animal abuse case shown in Mercy for Animals video.
In its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates today, USDA raised its forecast slightly for 2010 U.S. milk production from last month.
Farm Journal Media’s key dairy magazine, DAIRY TODAY, is announcing the expansion of its eNewsletter both in frequency and in content starting immediately.