DAIRY
Awards honor the ‘best of the best’ dairies that manage environmental impact and contribute to local communities while building business value.
State considers whether to abandon its longtime pricing system for a Federal Milk Marketing Order.
Dairy Today Editor Jim Dickrell reports on the downturn in fluid milk sales.
MINNEAPOLIS – The boss cow saunters to the head of the line and, with a flick of her hip, cuts off two other ladies. She’s itching to get at the tasty brown morsels waiting in the feed trough.“It’s like candy for them,” Lisa Groetsch said as she oversaw milking on her Stearns County, Minn., farm one recent afternoon. “It’s full of protein and nutrients.”
‘Even the producers in the 24,000 lb./cow category are not meeting full costs and must find family living costs from some other source.’ --Robert Tigner, University of Nebraska Extension.
Permanent Farm Law requires the Secretary of Agriculture to set the dairy price support between 75 and 90% of parity if the current Farm Bill expires.
Ross suggests modifying FARRM Act with a feed cost amendment, which could give California dairy producers an added $1 per cwt.
Drought, soaring feed costs, shrinking credit lines and red ink box in U.S. dairies.
Feeding yeast culture led to an average increase of 3.5 lb./cow/day of fat-corrected milk and 3.6 lb./cow/day of energy-corrected milk.
Today’s USDA report is seen as bearish for corn prices, moderately bullish for livestock producers.
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.
Heifer mastitis is a hidden but all too common disease, negatively impacting milk quality, production and udder health.
Although the number of derogations continues to climb, it is not nearly as high as once expected.
Wisconsin and Minnesota buy the most insurance policies.
Goal is to seek long-term solutions for state’s struggling dairy industry, with recommendations developed by year’s end.
The “Writ of Mandamus” was filed on behalf of Milk Producers Council, Dairy Farmers of America, Security Milk Producers Association and California Dairy Campaign.
Both the feed cost adjustor and trigger price are the highest ever calculated.
Only the individual dairy farmer – after much discussion with family members and input from lenders and other key advisers – can make the decision to exit.
One of the nation’s largest dairy lenders answers our questions about this year’s dairy struggles and its lending philosophy.
Donation of customized cartons will benefit the food bank’s “Food 4 Kids” backpack program for chronically hungry children.
Thunder clapped and rain fell just before Bionce, Sassy and the rest of Mark Argall’s prize-winning dairy herd went up for auction.Had the storm come a few weeks earlier, and if the drought had eased, it might have saved the cows -- some of which were named with a bit of poetic license (“You can spell names however you want,” he said) for pop-culture divas and celebrities.As it was, however, Argall’s pasture was so dry that his cattle had nothing to eat, and the farmer was losing $75 a day just trying to feed them.Five generations of his family have milked dairy cows in this secluded stretch of Missouri’s Ozark Mountains, but the inch or so of rain that fell on this recent Thursday was too little, too late. Argall -- a 54-year-old with a wiry, broomstick mustache -- had no choice but to sell nearly all of his cows at a livestock auction.
President Barack Obama, campaigning in Iowa Monday, announced $170 million in government meat purchases to help farmers struck by drought, helping to send hog prices to a one-week high.The purchase of as much as $100 million of pork, $50 million of chicken, and $10 million each of lamb and catfish come on top of $30 million in assistance announced last week. Farmers and ranchers are struggling with the worst combination of heat and dryness since the 1950s, the administration said.Obama said he also directed the Defense Department to speed up purchases and hold the meat for later use. The buying will help farmers, and the government will get a better price on products than if they were bought later, he said.
Hurricane Isaac could offer enough moisture to to germinate and grow emergency fall grains such as oats, rye or wheat in the southeast and as far north as Missouri.
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.
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.
State’s senators and congressman join request for EPA to scale back Renewable Fuels Standard in wake of the drought.
Sixteen cattle experts will travel to Madison, Wis., to judge the most elite cows in North America Oct. 2-6.