Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will continue to defend the supply management system that protects the Canadian dairy industry in talks about revamping the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is easing its policy on some domestic milk products. It’s a change the dairy industry has been pushing for 20 years, but trade tension with Canada brought it to the forefront. Earlier this year, Canada changed its policy and stopped importing ultra-filtered (UF) milk products from the United States. Many processors, like Grassland Dairy Products, a processor in Wisconsin, were forced to drop all of its producers and those farmers scrambled to find a home.
When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was ratified back on Jan. 1, 1994, President Clinton was in the White House, Forrest Gump was talking about boxes of chocolates and World Dairy Expo had just celebrated its 25th year. Dairy exports were at roughly 3 percent of production and there was a groundswell of support for a formal supply management program to do something with the oversupply of milk.
Growers and dairies lobby for a path to legalization for the undocumented workers who power their businesses.
Having an Agriculture Secretary with on-the-farm experience has farmers and ranchers eager to see what Sonny Perdue can get done at USDA.
A bill drawn up by Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage would make public the names of animal activists hired to film undercover footage of animal cruelty.
Gov. Scott Walker says he spoke with President Donald Trump about the nearly 40 Wisconsin dairy farmers desperately seeking help after being dropped by their milk buyer following a Canadian policy change.
The biggest U.S. dairy importer is talking with New Zealand and buying more from the EU. Guess why.
19 Minnesota dairy farms affected by US-Canada trade dispute
Nonfat dry milk futures are down 12% amid trade war concerns.
Producers have been tested with milk prices falling below breakeven levels.
U.S. dairy farmers already struggling with low milk prices worry President Donald Trump’s talk of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement could harm trade to Mexico, its biggest export market.
Canada’s ambassador to Washington said Tuesday night that President Donald Trump is wrong when he says Canada’s trade practices in the dairy industry are “very unfair.”
Devin Nunes once said all he wanted to do was work on a dairy farm. Now the man from the rural Central Valley of California is running one of the most scrutinized, complex and politically fraught congressional investigations in recent memory.
There’s been a lot of talk about renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and a new trade barrier between the U.S. and the Canadian dairy industry is likely to find its way to the surface, and soon.
New Hampshire dairy farms could get $2 million in relief funding.
California officials have there finger pointed at dairy cows for emissions they say cause global warming.
Milk regulations in Canada could devastate the New York dairy industry.
California Democrats are taking further steps to advance the state’s ambitious climate-change agenda, agreeing to regulate methane emissions from landfills and dairy farms for the first time and approving $900 million in spending on environmental programs.
The cheese police are on the case.
Cornell University dairy economist Andrew Novakovic explains the complex new dairy policy, which the Senate is expected to vote on early this week.
Margin insurance a better risk management tool than price supports or MILC
New farm bill would establish a dairy margin insurance program and eliminate dairy price supports.
Passing of U.S. Spending bill prevents retaliatory tariffs on dairy.
The proposal could lead to the erosion of Federal Orders if other specialty milk products claim similar exemptions.
State regulators will hold a public hearing on the proposed expansion of five dairies around Oregon after multiple requests from Salem vegan groups.
The FDA Bulk Milk Antibiotic Survey will have an impact on the dairy industry.
The state’s dairy producers are eager to push for changes that will increase the price of whey.
Gov. Jay Nixon signed bills Friday aimed at boosting Missouri’s dairy and $12.5 billion-a-year agriculture industries through insurance subsidies, scholarships, eased restrictions during parts of the year and other provisions meant to help crop and livestock farmers.
Milk processors, producer-handlers and a Nevada dairy weigh in.