DAIRY
Following its move into China, the New Zealand dairy giant explores the possibility of building dairies in India.
The following information was released by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri:Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Howard County, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to operating two cattle fraud schemes in which 28 victims, including The Callaway Bank in Fulton, Mo., as well as numerous individuals, lost nearly $8 million.Kevin Ray Asbury, 44, formerly of Howard County, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Matt J. Whitworth to a federal information that charges him with bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.
Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold will sell 1.354 million pounds of Cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack cheese to customers in Asia and Europe.
The Department of Agriculture no longer serves as a lifeline to millions of struggling homestead farmers. Instead, it is a vast, self-perpetuating postmodern bureaucracy with an amorphous budget of some $130 billion -- a sum far greater than the nation’s net farm income this year. In fact, the more the Agriculture Department has pontificated about family farmers, the more they have vanished -- comprising now only about 1 percent of the American population.
Fair Oaks Farms’ new fleet will be nation’s largest long-haul operation using renewable energy.
The first six months of 2011 have brought image after image of human misery and ecological upheaval.Droughts, wildfires, twisters, floods, heat waves, extreme blizzards - just about every natural disaster you can imagine has hit just about every place on the planet.How to handle them, survive them and how to clean up and rebuild after them are among the many issues that will be on the agenda for the 21st World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM), to be held in Toronto Sunday through Wednesday.
Cooperatives Working Together accepted seven requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold.
Wisconsin health officials apparently have found the source of bacteria that sickened 16 people attending a school event this month in Raymond.
KENTWOOD, La., June 14 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release:Louisiana dairyfarmers say this was beginning to look like the year they would make a little money, but now they are not so sure.
Ron Gibson, who milks 1,500 cows and farms 1,200 acres, has about 400 acres of land underwater.
Farmers cut back on herd rations because of ‘rock-bottom’ milk prices they receive.
While the U.S., Europe remain the world’s leading cheese producers, other countries are making inroads – and it’s still not enough to meet demand.
School board also approves adding more vegetarian entrees to student menus.
Recent research reveals how Kentucky’s dairies regularly keep their somatic cell counts below 250,000.
First-time visitors had the largest improvement in impression scores after their visits.
USDA forecasts soaring feed costs, strong demand and high milk prices this year and next.
A decade ago, the domestic market for Greek yogurt, a thicker, more protein-laden version of traditional mass-market yogurt, barely existed. Within the past five years, however, it has exploded, and that’s been great news for New York’s dairy farmers. That’s because it can take three pounds of milk to make one pound of yogurt.
OTTAWA -- With rare exceptions, discussions of food policy in Canada are limited to the joys of eating organic and how hard-pressed farmers need more help from the government. What you never hear is this: As a result of rising population and wealth, global demand for food is soaring and the world faces a food crisis unlike anything seen since the 1970s if food production does not grow rapidly. Canada is among the very few nations with the capacity to dramatically boost production.But we’re not. In fact, Canadian agriculture is stagnant. And politicians will not even discuss how we can change that.
Brad Kamerman’s dairyfarm sits along a dusty and rolling road in western Gallatin County, his black-and-white Holstein cows visible to the occasional passerby. Milking there starts daily at 3 a.m. as cows file into pens where rubber tubes simultaneously do the work of a several farmhands, pumping the milk into refrigerated vats.
Shipments will head to Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Central America.
A summary of the most dramatic attempt to reform federal dairy policy in decades.
MADISON, Wis. Cheryl Skjolaas’ morning routine is something that can either make or ruin her day. Over a cup of coffee, Skjolaas fires up her computer and pores over news from around Wisconsin, hoping that no news is good news .Skjolaas is an agriculture safety specialist for UW-Extension, and each day checks to see if there has been a farm accident somewhere in Wisconsin.
This was supposed to be a big year. Crop prices were up. The weather had cooperated, mostly, in the fall and the spring. Mid-South farmers had their fields ready and were looking to cash in. In fact, a lot of farmers were depending on 2011’s crop to make up for the low prices and bad weather of the past two years. Then the water came.
May marks the end of the driest eight-month period on record.
Cows need shade, air flow and water.
Exports of Washington-grown products have reached a new high. From October 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011, the value of Washington-origin farm and seafood products set a record pace.Washington food exports were worth $1.91 billion in the last quarter of 2010, a figure matched in the first quarter of 2011.
Fluctuating milk prices have long made dairyfarming a risky business, and when milk prices crashed in 2002, Chris Lekberg gave up. He sold his cows and bought goats. It turned out to be a wise decision. He now has more than 50 goats, and with growing demand for goat cheese, he gets a steady price for their milk from a nearby cheesemaker. While the big dairy states of Wisconsin and California have the most dairy goats, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, the industry is growing in New England as well.
Corn prices fell Friday on concerns about global demand after the government reported a drop in export sales.