DAIRY
Bipartisan legislation would enable U.S. companies to expand exports to Russia when it joins the World Trade Organization this year.
Regular, candid contact makes a big difference in how your lender can help you.
Dairies encouraged to apply for the $10,000 award.
As governing Council opens, member countries briefed on world food situation.
If you protect your margin between nine and 12 months to contract maturity, you will likely obtain a [milk-feed price] margin between $8 and $10/cwt.
One identified offspring of a BSE cow has tested negative for the disease; calf ranch is also under investigation.
Product is an extender for cottonseed in dairy feed.
Sarah Leonard joins several young farmers in Washington, D.C., to discuss the importance of the farm bill for the next generation of ag producers.
‘We created programs that can be customized by each dairy.’
Influx of younger dairy farmers bodes well for the economy and environment.
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) A dramatic increase in the price of hay and corn and low milk prices are putting some New Mexico dairies out of business.Dairy Producers of New Mexico President Luke Woelber tells the Albuquerque Journal (http://bit.ly/L7ZCIv ) that he knows of five dairies in the eastern and southern part of the state that have closed in the face of feed costs that have doubled in the past few years.
Cornell University’s David Galton receives top award. Several others honored.
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.
At the Litchfield academy, Lloyd Metzger, a dairy food scientist at South Dakota State, explains what’s required to produce and sell high quality milk.
Dairy’s baseline is $432 million over the next 10 years. That sounds like a big number. But not when it comes to government expenditures.
Lely introduces a robotic TMR mixer/feeder/pusher all-in-one, hands-free robotic machine.
Fifty-seven counties produce 50% of all Federal Order and California milk, down from 62 counties just five years ago.
ATaranaki dairy automation specialist is challenging New Zealand academic opinion that denies the relevance here of an American study of LED lights.
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.”
World Dairy Expo to offer free look at eight U.S. dairies Oct. 2-6.
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.
State imposed the quarantine May 10 after several people became ill from consuming the dairy’s raw milk.
No anomalies found at dairies or in feed records.
NMPF working with ag committee leaders to expedite vote in Senate.
A modest production increase in 2013 could help support prices, USDA says.
In a trial utilizing four pens of about 320 cows each, UC-Davis graduate student Nadia Swanepoel fed four levels of canola meal.