Processors
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.
“This amounts to an unexpected, unfair and unwarranted tax on dairy producers.”
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.
Kraft expects the deal to be done by the end of 2012.
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.
Land O’Lakes CEO Chris Policinski came to Washington recently to a conference of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) to discuss the importance of the U.S. government’s investment in overseas markets. Tough economic times have made increasing the country’s foreign aid budget a hard sell, Policinski said.
The biggest concerns were over perceived unfairness of the margin protection insurance portion of the plan and market stabilization.
The New Zealand co-op, reportedly the largest milk processor in the world, has appointed Theo Spierings as its new CEO.
Since 2000, retails milk prices have climbed 31%, which is less than the overall consumer price index increase of 34%.
The three-hour meetings, in 12 locations across the country, are designed to give producers a detailed look at the proposed dairy reform package.
Supply management policies exacerbate the problem of tight and variable margins by hampering producers’ ability to manage risk
By 2015, 12 dairies will be milking 34,000 cows and by 2020, another 12 units will be milking an additional 33,000 cows.
CWT accepted eight requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America to sell 648,371 pounds of Cheddar cheese to customers in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Central America.
Payments would average nearly $20,000 per farm.
CWT accepted six requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Bongards Creamery to sell a total of 1,128 metric tons of Cheddar cheese to customers in the Middle East, North Africa and Central America.
The agreement will reduce 50 percent of the tariffs imposed by Mexico on U.S. cheese exports.
ANAND: The cradle of India’s White Revolution, the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd - better known as Amul Dairy - will now take the big leap of entering the US and European markets. The ‘Taste of India’ would reach the doorsteps of ethnic South Asians living abroad as the country’s premier dairy cooperative plans to set up manufacturing bases outside India.
Fair Oaks Farms’ new fleet will be nation’s largest long-haul operation using renewable energy.
Korea is currently the No. 2 export market for U.S. cheese.
Farmers cut back on herd rations because of ‘rock-bottom’ milk prices they receive.
CWT accepted 11 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold to sell a total of 1,587 metric tons of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese.
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.
Nominations are now being accepted for the title of the Innovative Dairy Farmer of the Year,co-sponsored by IDFA and Dairy Today magazine.
USDA issued a proposed rule for the mandatory, electronic price reporting for cheese, butter, whey and nonfat dry milk today.
The recommendations for dairy are three cups per day of fat-free or low fat milk
12 meetings in July and August will bring together dairy producers and other key industry representatives
Hearing will consider proposed pricing changes from California Dairies Inc., Land O’Lakes.
CWT accepted 10 requests for export assistance from Darigold and Dairy Farmers of America to sell 2,579 metric tons of Cheddar, Gouda, and Monterey Jack.