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Cheese provides only 5 percent of the calories in the U.S. diet, yet 21 percent of the calcium.
A bill to be introduced Feb. 21 in both houses of the Texas Legislature would allow raw milk producers to make home deliveries of their product and sell it at farmers’ markets.
If 2009 was the bottom and 2010 was a year of stability, this could be the year of recovery for Yakima Valley dairy producers.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted 12 requests for export assistance from Darigold, Dairy Farmers of America, and United Dairymen of Arizona to sell 5.106 million pounds of Cheddar cheese to customers in North Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Europe, and Asia.
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.
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.
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.
Mozzarella production accounted for the largest share.
Connie Tipton challenged industry leaders to focus on policies that will promote growth and profitability.
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.
Year-over-year milk production increases slowly adjusting supply to demand, holding the all-milk price near 2010 level.
DFA and DMS allege the settlement will allow plaintiffs’ attorneys to pick “winners and losers” among dairy farmers
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
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.
FDA will begin on-farm drug testing of milk on 900 dairy farms that previously had drug residues found in meat.
(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.
NMPF and USDEC hope the move will lead to the end of Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods, including many cheeses.
A new draft report backs use of whey protein concentrate in certain food aid products.
The issue of market access for US agricultural products in India seems to have taken an ugly turn with US Secretary of agriculture Thomas Vilsack sending a strongly-worded letter to his Indian counterpart Sharad Pawar, stating that the bilateral agricultural relationship will be “jeopardised” if India does not change its approach.
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted seven requests for export assistance to sell a total of 1.702 million pounds of cheese to customers in North Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Of the 22 recommendations proposed, 18 passed, two failed and two were tabled. Sixteen of the 18 recommendations that passed garnered at least two-thirds “yes” votes.
A state judge yesterday ruled against a Minnesota farmer who denied responsibility for an outbreak of illness from raw milk.
Strong export demand will mitigate downward dairy price pressure. But rising feed costs will still deteriorate margins in the first quarter of 2011.