IDFA urged Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack to implement nearly all of the reforms recommended by the NDIAC but urged him not to endorse any proposal to manipulate milk supplies.
Many of the videos are severely edited or staged, and yet activists involved receive no repercussions for having contributed to the alleged animal suffering.
Tepidly supports ‘growth management,’ urges SCC level reduced to 400,000
The Dairy Industry Advisory Committee voted today to approve a final report to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack offering recommendations on dairy farm profitability and milk prices.
The NMPF analysis shows that dairy farmers would have received at least $3 billion more revenue had the stabilization program been in place in 2009.
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation applauds the Wisconsin State Senate for its passage of a bill that will help grow and modernize Wisconsin’s dairy and livestock industries.
A recovering global economy is good news for U.S. dairy exports, with 2010 U.S. sales growing 39% over 2009 to 1.5 million tons.
National Dairy Producers Organization says dairy farmers have not been properly represented in the industry.
Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act may impact cooperatives’ ability to offer price risk management tools to dairy producers.
The return of global food inflation is one of 2011’s big stories, with much focus rightly turned to grain prices.
Republican Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Oklahoma’s Frank Lucas, has indicated a desire to address dairy policy this year.
The NMC Board of Directors voted to submit another proposal to NCIMS, again recommending a reduction in the SCC limit in the US to 400,000.
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,
California congressman Dennis Cardoza named ranking member of the subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
The Democratic Caucus named 20 Democrats, including 13 returning and seven new members, to the House Agriculture Committee.
Feed The World: Warnings of a global food shortage are cropping up in the news. This should not be happening in 2011. But while our technologies have advanced, our politics are still prehistoric.
Yes - Zippy Duvall, president, Georgia Farm Bureau - Americans enjoy the safest, most diverse and affordable food supply of any nation in recorded history. No - Brian Riedl, Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs, The Heritage Foundation - Farm subsidies are outdated, unnecessary and unaffordable.
Gov. Jerry Brown appoints longtime agricultural advocate Karen Ross to head California’s Department of Food and Agriculture.
State ag director Katy Coba looks forward to the challenges and opportunities ahead.
USDA’s Dairy Industry Advisory Committee votes. Of the 22 recommendations proposed, 18 passed, two failed and two were tabled.
Oklahoma congressman wants to prevent EPA “from imposing standards which would cripple American agriculture.”
Of the 22 recommendations proposed, 18 passed, two failed and two were tabled. Sixteen of the 18 recommendations that passed garnered at least two-thirds “yes” votes.
Florida congressman also serves as a vice chair of the Congressional Dairy Caucus.
Includes estate tax provisions with a $5 million individual/$10 million married couple exemption plus a top tax rate of 35%.
One vote margins pass the national supply management program and mandating California’s higher milk solids in fluid milk.
In case you missed any of the great AgWeb blog posts this week, here’s a quick recap…
Final passage of legislation extending current tax laws will benefit family farmers and ranchers—and give them time to seek longer-term reforms.
WASHINGTON - Rep. Frank Lucas of Oklahoma issued the following statement after his colleagues in the House Republican Conference elected him to serve as Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee in the 112th Congress.
Dairy interests prepare for new congressional line-up.
The revised 2011 LGM-Dairy insurance plan will be available for sale on Dec. 17, 2010.