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USDA reports corn and soybean stocks down 17% from 2012.
The cuts represent about 3% less spending.
Recipients include a Minnesota dairy company that will receive $8,040 to help offset the cost of producing electricity from two anaerobic digesters.
NASS suspended the surveys in April to meet the budget reductions required by sequestration.
Milk production declined in most major western states: California, down 3.5%; Arizona, down 2%; Idaho, down 1.1%, and Oregon, down 0.9%.
Milk prices to remain strong; record corn crop also expected.
Vilsack: The 2010 deal through which the U.S. pays Brazil $147 million a year to aid its cotton industry won’t be funded once the current farm law starts expiring.
Feed price relief on the horizon for dairy producers, but high stocks dampen milk and product prices.
Shipments of non-compliant milk dropped from just under 10% in January 2012 to 6% in June.
University of Wisconsin dairy economists discuss dairy market implications.
California milk production was actually down 18 million lb. from a year ago, or 0.5%.
Milk prices are forecast in the $17-$19 range for this year and next.
“The action of the Judiciary Committee reflects growing opposition to dairy supply management” --International Dairy Foods Association
Wilson has spent 25 years in the Federal Order system.
Year-to-date, milk production is down 511 million pounds compared to the first four months of 2012, a decrease of 0.7%.
That could set up a struggle to pass a farm bill that will satisfy farmers, environmentalists and nutrition advocates.
This is the eighth time since 1997 that the 400,000 cells/ml proposal has been rejected. NCIMS meets every other year.
Year-to-date, CWT sales are the equivalent of 1.599 billion pounds of milk--more than USDA’s projected increase in milk marketings for all of 2013.
Year-to-date, some 27,000 more cows have been slaughtered than in 2012.
One objective is to explore innovative ways to use products previously considered waste streams from dairy production, processing and handling.
A decline in livestock margins has been offset to a degree by rising animal protein prices and growing exports.
For 30 months, dairy groups negotiated this agreement that addresses the future of dairy cattle genetic evaluations and management benchmarks.
The proposed legislation would allow California dairy producers to petition USDA for a federal order plus allow them to keep the state’s quota entitlement.
California output drops a whopping 8% from year-earlier levels; some see report as bullish.
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But feed prices are expected to decline as new-crop corn and soybeans are harvested later this year.
University of Wisconsin dairy economists Bob Cropp and Mark Stephenson discuss milk production, cow numbers and the outlook for milk prices in their latest podcast.
The National Milk Producers Federation will again submit a proposal to the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments in April to lower the U.S. standard to 400,000 cells/ml.
Total dairy cow numbers were actually down 20,000 head from a year ago, but up 7,000 over the last month.