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In June, as many as 10% of Upper Midwest dairy farms were not in compliance. Deadline is today.
Paul Rovey, Glendale, Ariz., leads Dairy Management, Inc.; Stephen Maddox, Riverdale, Calif., leads the National Dairy, Research and Promotion Board.
‘The estimated health care cost attributable to low dairy product consumption is comparable with total spending on public health in Australia.’
SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah dairy operation will close its doors at the end of the month, marking the end of a local institution that has changed hands several times during the past decade as it struggled to stay in business.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 18 requests for export assistance from Bongards Creamery, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold and Foremost Farms for customers in Asia, Central America, North Africa and the Middle East.
USDA expects 95,000 fewer dairy cows by the end of the year.
Standards Include low-fat milk, other low-fat dairy products
Feed prices are expected to pressure dairy producer returns and encourage a more rapid decline in the cow herd.
Chobani chooses Twin Falls for its abundant milk supply, skilled labor force and tight knit local community.
The following information was released by the office of the governor of Wisconsin: Governor Scott Walker announced today the first recipients of the Grow Wisconsin Dairy Producer Grants. Grants totaling $200,000 have been awarded to 41 dairyfarmers around the state to help them become more profitable and thereby contribute to the Grow Wisconsin Dairy 30x20 Initiative goal of producing 30-billion pounds of milk by 2020.
The venture marks the first entry by either PepsiCo or Muller into U.S. dairy aisles.
INDIANAPOLIS - A battle over the sale of raw milk is brewing in Indiana. The state Board of Animal Health has seen hundreds of people weigh in on the subject as part of the agency’s virtual public hearing about whether Indiana should allow the sale of raw milk.
Consumers urged to dispose of product due to insufficient pasteurization.
Hundreds of cartons of milk were contaminated with detergent on plant’s production line.
Slowdown in milk output, strong cheese market boost dairy price outlook.
The beverage giant will lend its distribution and marketing expertise to help deliver new Core Power from Fair Oaks Farms.
The three-dairy family operation will ship all its milk to Texas plant.
“No consistent evidence that checkoff funded projects were more likely to support an obesity prevention benefit from dairy consumption.”
The Senate is expected to begin debating this and other amendments to the Farm Bill this week.
Total U.S. dairy export value was $460 million, up 17% from year-earlier levels.
Co-op officials don’t expect many, if any, farms to go out of business as a result of non-compliance since they expect USDA will readily grant derogations.
CWT has accepted eight requests for export assistance from Bongards, Darigold, Foremost Farms and United Dairymen of Arizona.
The new dairy supply management program in the farm bill will hurt exports, encourage imports and limit job growth, say dairy processors.
With European partner, the New Zealand company will establish a new cheese plant and a dairy ingredients factory in the Netherlands to supply its European and Asian customers.
Melinda Olson has given her 12-year-old son raw milk for years. When he walked away virtually unscathed from a serious bike accident last year, she credited his healthy diet of raw milkdairy products.Matthew Caldwell fed his 2-year-old son, Owen, raw milk in the spring of 2010. The boy was hospitalized for 13 days, victim of an E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak traced to raw milk producer Mike Hartmann.The two parents’ stories are bookends to a debate that is on high boil in Minnesota. One farmer accused of breaking state law barring the off-farm sale of raw milk, Alvin Schlangen, is slated for trial in July. Hartmann was hit with the same criminal milk charge last month, and also faces a civil suit from Caldwell.Raw milk isn’t pasteurized -- heat-treated to kill pathogens. Advocates see it as integral to a superior diet, and decry what they see as heavy-handed attempts to limit its free flow and punish suppliers. “This is about the freedom to choose the foods we want for our families,” said Olson of Richfield.
Petitions contend the state’s producers are losing millions of dollars due to an undervalued whey factor in California’s milk pricing system. One cheesemaker calls the petitions’ demands “obscene.”
Dan MacSweeney**Position:**chief executive**Age:**56**Family:**married to Miriam with two sons**Hobbies:**team sports.....**Carbery Group****Location:**Ballineen, west Cork**Employees:**520**Turnover:**EUR 256.5 million in 2011**Shareholders:**West Cork Co-Ops (91 per cent), milk suppliers (9 per cent).....The Carbery Group has been based in the picturesque west Cork village of Ballineen since it was established in 1964. But in the intervening years, it has expanded around the world, and now has subsidiaries in south-east Asia, South America, the US and Britain.
A modest production increase in 2013 could help support prices, USDA says.