DAIRY
The New Zealand-based company plans to lift mozzarella output to 50,000 metric tons a year by September 2015, enough to garnish about 350 million pizzas.
Milk prices above $20 signal brighter days and solid margins for dairy producers.
Taking immediate action and calling in expert help is critical.
Registry is open to all dairy breeders regardless of the breed or combination of breeds.
Monitoring performance and making adjustments as an investment grows is a key to optimizing return on investment – the same rule applies for calf and heifer nutrition programs.
A mouse click or text now allows you to contribute to milk purchases for food banks.
Jaden Legacy Dipsy Jane scored 94, the highest Brown Swiss classification score.
For Gov. Dennis Daugaard, recruiting dairies to his home state is a high priority.
As in all things where Federal Orders are concerned, it’s complicated.
The new 12,000 square-foot facility, located at the company’s headquarters in Quincy, Ill., will support a five-fold increase in Animate production to meet anticipated demand by dairy operators.
She has change of heart over Ag Gag law when she learns of Mercy for Animals’ true intent.
Milk powder, cheese imports doubled in February over year-earlier levels.
Year-to-date, CWT sales are the equivalent of 619.5 million pounds of milk on a milkfat basis.
Final details might not come until August.
South Dakota produced 2 billion lb. of milk in 2013 compared to Missouri’s 1.3 billion pounds.
With milk prices near a record, it costs Fonterra more to make other products with the milk it can’t process into powder.
Growing dairy profit margins on the heels of strong export demand are giving producers more opportunities to improve and repair farm equipment and facilities, a Purdue Extension dairy specialist says.
New representatives were added to Expo’s Dairy Cattle Exhibitor and Commercial Exhibitor Committees.
The animal health company has awarded $100,000 to 20 veterinary students.
The Dutch pledge their dairy expertise to help Chinese producers boost the quality and quantity of their milk.
Supershot is the first bull to be marketed with a net merit index of more than $1,000.
That could represent a 20% reduction in planted acres.
The higher prices come after paying farmers increases of almost 15% for milk deliveries in the past two months.
The animals appeared to have starved to death.
To build trust and have the social license to operate, dairies must convey shared values – rather than science -- to consumers.
“No one country has any right to own common food names for their exclusive use.” -- NMPF’s Jim Mulhern
As part of trade talks, the EU wants to ban the use of names like Parmesan, feta and Gorgonzola on cheese made in the U.S.
“This is the first market I’ve worked in where food safety is a more important consideration than price.” -- Rob Chester, chief compliance officer at Wal-Mart in China.
Despite a decline in dairy farms in Vermont, agriculture officials say milk production is constant and farmers are getting record-high prices for their milk.