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In Britain, surging grocery prices are painful, but not life-threatening. For much of the rest of the world, by contrast, food prices are a matter of life and death.
Modest herd expansion, robust exports also expected.
National Dairy Producers Organization says dairy farmers have not been properly represented in the industry.
Under revised air-quality Rule 4570, California dairies must cut silage emissions.
2011 prices could reach their second-highest level ever.
If 2009 was the bottom and 2010 was a year of stability, this could be the year of recovery for Yakima Valley dairy producers.
A total of $18,000 was awarded today to the winners of the 2011 World Ag Expo Forage Challenge, presented by Mycogen Seeds.
The return of global food inflation is one of 2011’s big stories, with much focus rightly turned to grain prices.
The Midwest dairy processor paid out $6 million in cash patronage and equity revolvements in 2009 and the rest in 2010.
When Super Bowl XLV kicks off Feb. 6 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, football fans may be surprised to know how agriculture plays into the gridiron game plan.
Many factors contribute to rising feed costs: diet formulation, feed wastage, ingredient selection and purchasing. One frequently mentioned cost-cutting measure, because it is a direct cash cost, is to eliminate minerals and particularly trace mineral supplementation. However, all dairy diets need some supplementation as natural, home-raised feeds are usually low in most required trace minerals. Not supplementing will result in a moderate deficiency.
David Rings is a Kentucky farmer with about 200 head of certified Angus cattle. Last fall he sold seven steers to Eastern Livestock, one of the country’s biggest cattle brokers, for a total of $7,200. When Eastern’s check bounced, Rings discovered he was one of hundreds of sellers across 30 states who’d sold to the company, was out his money and was left with the distinct impression that something doesn’t smell right in cattle country.
JerseyBid.com, a new real-time online auction service, will be highlighted at the winter US Jersey seminar in Columbus, Ohio.
Mozzarella production accounted for the largest share.
Each year, U.S. federal inspectors find illegal levels of antibiotics in hundreds of older dairy cows bound for the slaughterhouse. Concerned that those antibiotics might also be contaminating milk, the Food and Drug Administration intended to begin tests this month on the milk from farms that had repeatedly sold cows tainted by drug residue. But the testing plan has met with fierce protest from the dairy industry,
Connie Tipton challenged industry leaders to focus on policies that will promote growth and profitability.
California congressman Dennis Cardoza named ranking member of the subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
The program will reduce dairies’ water-quality compliance costs by pooling monitoring efforts.
Deadline for the college scholarships is April 15.
A Columbia County dairy is using an outside $1.65 million investment to purchase land, double its size and build a processing plant. Milk Thistle Farm, a Ghent-based milk producer and bottler that’s popular in New York City, will move its herd and operations to a 250-acre farm off Allendale Road in Stuyvesant, near Kinderhook.
“The Holy Grail” of the agricultural calendar each month is the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Report.
Year-over-year milk production increases slowly adjusting supply to demand, holding the all-milk price near 2010 level.
Rain that caused billions of dollars of destruction in Australia could propel wheat output in the fourth-largest exporter to a record next harvest and boost irrigated crops after floods swept parched land.
Things couldn’t have gone better for Wisconsin corn and soybean producers in 2010. For milk producers, they went a lot better than they did a year ago, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists in their 2011 Status of Wisconsin Agriculture report.
Midwest dairy producers began losing money in December due to lower milk prices and rising feed costs,
Awards include Guest of Honor, Pioneer, Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder, Progressive Dairy Producer, and Graduate Production Award.
The Democratic Caucus named 20 Democrats, including 13 returning and seven new members, to the House Agriculture Committee.