DAIRY
These days, farm subsidies are blamed for lots of things, even the nation’s obesity epidemic. Critics say the billions of dollars in annual subsidies encourage farmers to grow too much grain. Prices drop, food gets cheaper, and we eat too much. Seems like a simple equation, except it’s not.
Europe’s biggest farms will see their EU agricultural subsidies capped at E300,000 a year under draft proposals to reform the bloc’s farmpolicy from 2014, according to a leaked draft.
Recent high temperatures and high-priced feed expected to constrain growth in per-cow milk.
Scientists with the USDA look at ways to get more corn to one of the fastest growing dairy states.
Method saves fuel, labor and equipment costs, also reduces soil disturbance and dust.
When American farmers are allowed to compete in international markets, they can win. We already export to China, Japan, Mexico and Europe, and now need to knock down barriers to our exports in other countries. The pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama would allow Ohio farmers to compete on a level playing field in these important markets, and I urge the U.S. Congress to immediately approve and implement these agreements.
The South American country hits a pothole on the road to becoming a challenger to U.S. dairy export ambitions.
Porter Family honored with Agricultural Environmental Management Award.
The two congressmen pledge to build a more effective economic safety net for the U.S. dairy industry.
Any large-scale expansion of U.S. ag exports will only be possible if the nation can get more commodities and farm products to market, something some experts say the country already struggles to accomplish.
EMMETSBURG, IOWA - Each fall in corn country, big combines prowl through the fields, stripping the valuable kernels from ears and spitting out bits of cornstalk, leaves and empty cobs.The residue, which used to lie on the ground and rot, has become a money crop for the next generation of biofuel.Poet LLC, the nation’s leading ethanol producer, says it is determined to open a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in 2013 next to its existing corn-ethanol plant in this northern Iowa community. The $250 million project could be the first such plant in the nation. Last month, the U.S. Energy Department conditionally committed to a $105 million loan guarantee for it."The technology is there -- it is definitely to the point where we can build the best-in-class plant, and the trick is getting these plants up,” said Brooke Coleman, executive director of the Advanced Ethanol Council, which represents many of the approximately dozen U.S. companies working to commercialize cellulosic ethanol.
Three attendees and an exhibitor tell what brings them back to Expo.
Farmers from Egypt, China, the UK and Peru tell why they come to Expo.
With the political mood in Washington focused on cutting federal programs, it’s imperative to get dairy economic safety net reforms done right, says this California dairy leader.
Rabobank research shows California dairies, processors uniquely positioned to capitalize on growing global demand.
USDA announced the July Class III minimum price at $21.39/cwt.—breaking the record by a penny set in July 2007.
Tour teams dairy farmers and Easton Hamlin, 14-year-old country musician.
Darigold, Inc.'s Board of Directors has selected Jim Wegner to succeed retiring John Underwood as President and CEO of Northwest Dairy Association (NDA) and Darigold. The selection was announced to the organization’s approximately 550 member-owners and 1,600 employees on Friday, July 29. Wegner, previously Darigold’s Senior Vice President of Technical Services, assumed his new role on August 1. Underwood will serve as Special Executive to the Board of Directors and will assist with the transition.
The 3,200-cow dairy is expected to increase Fonterra’s overall milk production in China to 360 million cups of fresh milk every year.
The U.S. is ideally positioned to take advantage of this gap if it can get dairy policies realigned to be focused on the export market.
National dairy leader Jerry Kozak points out the inadequacy of the current program and the need for better dairy policy.
At $23.62 per cwt., June 2011’s overall monthly dairy cost of production is the highest since 2008.
Livestock and poultry groups commend senators for asking Senate leadership to terminate the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit and tariff on imported ethanol as soon as possible.
At a feeding rate of 19 grams/cow/day, AminoShure-L delivers 6.2 gm of metabolizable protein for 11¢/cow/day
The well-monitoring effort is the most ambitious in the history of California’s dairy industry, and is the first such program of this scale in the U.S.
The Small Business Administration has provided financing in the amount of $725,735 for the expansion of a dairy operation in Carlisle, Pa. The recipient is the Garman Partnership, owners of Creekside Dairy, which has been in the Garman family for three generations.
Expansion will reach 12 million additional customers.
Cheese will go to customers in the Asia, the Middle East, Central America, Europe and the South Pacific.
Cheese-laden pizza was the food of choice when late night budget meetings dragged on beyond the dinner hour.
After focusing on moving earth for agriculture and industry for most of its 174-year history, Deere and Co. now is fighting for its place in the skies.