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Today’s WASDE report projects higher dairy exports and prices in 2013.
Dairy economists share their views on the market’s situation and outlook in this short video.
With White House status quo, other leadership shifts will shape direction of farm and dairy legislation.
Washington State dairy will install an anaerobic digester and sell the resulting electricity to a utility.
For the first time in at least a decade, a current U.S. Agriculture Secretary is visiting World Dairy Expo.
University of Wisconsin economists discuss Class III prices, cow numbers, feed prices and the export market.
High August temperatures are likely to blame. High temps are particularly hard on fresh cows, causing them to eat less and have more digestive upsets.
Permanent Farm Law requires the Secretary of Agriculture to set the dairy price support between 75 and 90% of parity if the current Farm Bill expires.
State considers whether to abandon its longtime pricing system for a Federal Milk Marketing Order.
Today’s USDA report is seen as bearish for corn prices, moderately bullish for livestock producers.
Wisconsin and Minnesota buy the most insurance policies.
President Barack Obama, campaigning in Iowa Monday, announced $170 million in government meat purchases to help farmers struck by drought, helping to send hog prices to a one-week high.The purchase of as much as $100 million of pork, $50 million of chicken, and $10 million each of lamb and catfish come on top of $30 million in assistance announced last week. Farmers and ranchers are struggling with the worst combination of heat and dryness since the 1950s, the administration said.Obama said he also directed the Defense Department to speed up purchases and hold the meat for later use. The buying will help farmers, and the government will get a better price on products than if they were bought later, he said.
Economists discuss the milk price outlook against the backdrop of higher dairy cow culling, slowing milk output and $8 corn.
The number will climb since USDA has still not issued rulings on bulk derogations submitted by a number of large cooperatives.
US: Rain, Cooler Weather Helping Crops; Drought Not OverVOA NewsAugust 14, 2012U.S. officials say cooler weather and recent rain showers in the drought-stricken Midwest have largely stabilized crop conditions, but add that the drought is not over.
The apparently isolated, random case is only the fourth-ever discovery of the disease in the U.S.
The race to create a better, less controversial biofuel has spawned plenty of research into a variety of potential new sources - including switchgrass, cornstalks and algae. One goal behind the next generation of ethanol fuel is to end the debate over whether crops that could be used for food or animal feed are being converted into fuel. It’s a debate that’s dogged traditional ethanol, made from corn. A team of Wisconsin researchers say they may have found an abundant and eminently Dairyland ingredient for ethanol - cow manure from the state’s dairyfarms. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a coalition of state firms have been awarded $7 million for bioenergy research that would use a manure byproduct to produce ethanol at a dairyfarm in Manitowoc County.The funding was awarded by the U.S. Energy and Agriculture departments through their joint biomass research-and-development initiative.
ROBERT SIEGEL: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I’m Robert Siegel.AUDIE CORNISH: And I’m Audie Cornish. We begin this hour with the drought and how it could affect your grocery bill. Today, the U.S. Agriculture Department designated 76 more counties as disaster areas because of the drought and excessive heat. And it said that severe drought will likely affect prices for corn and other field crops, although it’s too soon to know how much prices will go up.We have two stories on drought and food. Our first comes from NPR’s Allison Keyes.
Close to half the corn crop in Wisconsin and other corn-producing states is in poor to very poor condition, the U. S. Department of Agriculture said Monday, as one of the nation’s worst-ever droughts continues to turn the growing season into a nightmare for many. In Wisconsin, 43% of the corn crop is in very poor to poor condition, the report said. About a third of the state’s corn - 31% - is considered to be in good or excellent condition by the USDA, and 26% of the state’s corn crop is in fair condition.
Standards Include low-fat milk, other low-fat dairy products
Animals vaccinated with the new vaccine can be differentiated from naturally infected animals.
Feed prices are expected to pressure dairy producer returns and encourage a more rapid decline in the cow herd.
Environmental Quality Incentives Program provided assistance to farmers who delayed silage harvest to help the rare birds.
Corn up 5% over last year; Soybean acreage is third largest on record.
Year-to-date, nearly 1.3 million cows have been sent to slaughter in Federally inspected plants in 2012.
The Alpena County farm is quarantined, and no cattle may enter or leave the premises until testing clears the cattle and farm of the disease.
New study says short-term impact will cause rise in prices and drop in competitiveness.
June’s milk output estimate shows the largest year-over-year increase since 1999.