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Acquisition will bring 33 additional dairies into state’s largest milk processing cooperative.
Six proposals with individual fluid milk processors will help accelerate product innovation, extend milk’s availability in new channels, and secure additional resources to market fluid milk.
Dairy cooperative’s sales and earnings for both third quarter and year-to-date surpass prior year.
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Mike Hartmann, a Sibley County, Minn. dairy farmer, has pled guilty to two misdemeanor counts of illegally selling raw milk.
But several factors suggest U.S. will remain a significant player in the global market.
More milk, more cheese and more money, says Norm Martin.
Smuggling cheese into Canada nets $1,000 to $2,000 per trip
International bank also sees improved dairy demand, potential price rise in the coming six months.
Cooperatives Working Together has accepted 13 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Land O’Lakes and Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association.
The $20 million plant is the company’s first U.S. manufacturing facility.
University of Wisconsin economists discuss Class III prices, cow numbers, feed prices and the export market.
Dairy Today Editor Jim Dickrell reports on the downturn in fluid milk sales.
High August temperatures are likely to blame. High temps are particularly hard on fresh cows, causing them to eat less and have more digestive upsets.
Although the number of derogations continues to climb, it is not nearly as high as once expected.
Goal is to seek long-term solutions for state’s struggling dairy industry, with recommendations developed by year’s end.
While courts confirm Aurora’s organic certifications as valid, the Colorado-based dairy company will pay a one-time amount of $7.5 million to cover all settlement class costs.
Cooperatives Working Together has accepted 11 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold and United Dairymen of Arizona
Both the feed cost adjustor and trigger price are the highest ever calculated.
Donation of customized cartons will benefit the food bank’s “Food 4 Kids” backpack program for chronically hungry children.
CWT has accepted 14 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Foremost Farms.
The denial “has removed all hope for a lot of people,” dairy producer says.
Economists discuss the milk price outlook against the backdrop of higher dairy cow culling, slowing milk output and $8 corn.
In 2012, CWT has assistedin making export sales of cheese totaling 73.8 million pounds, and butter and anhydrous milk fat totaling 56.6 million pounds, to 33 countries on four continents.
The number will climb since USDA has still not issued rulings on bulk derogations submitted by a number of large cooperatives.
Despite high feed costs and narrow profit margins, there’s good news for Idaho’s dairies.
Bipartisan group cites the “economic catastrophe” facing California’s dairy families.
The move, announced today by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, will allow dairy farms to expand to meet the growing demand for milk for use in yogurt.
This decision in Missouri affects an estimated 625,000 pounds of cheese consumption.
When Naked Cow Dairy sought to boost its production of artisanal cheese, owners Monique van der Stroom and Sabrina St. Martin found it required a $15,000 piece of equipment. That was too big a price tag to pay for the sisters, who had already made a big financial commitment in starting their business, the only dairy on Oahu. What are two female farmers to do?
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