Month: August 2018

Small-scale organic farmers are determined to fight back against industry transformation Small family operated dairy farms with cows freely grazing on verdant pastures are going out business as large confined animal operations with thousands of [Read More …]

Northeast SARE awards 2018 Graduate Student Grants

Program provides funding for high-quality, applied research led by young scientists The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Program recently awarded 28 Graduate Student Grants, totaling $405,373. Northeast SARE offers competitive grants and education [Read More …]

New Graduates Add Strength and Diversity to Select Sires’ Proven Lineup

With the August sire summary, Select Sires added strength and diversity to an already solid daughter-proven offering. The addition of 12 Holsteins, two Jerseys, one Ayrshire and one Brown Swiss sire to the three brand [Read More …]

Nine Sires Added to Robust GENEX Jersey Lineup

While daughter-proven sires 1JE00922 RONALDO {3} and 1JE00921 EUSEBIO {4} continue to impress – especially with strong numbers for the Ideal Commercial Cow™ (ICC$™) index and its Cheese Maximizer (ChMAX$) sub-index – nine new sires [Read More …]

Busy Year for the Livestock Facility Siting Review Board: Recent Decisions Confirm County Permitting Procedure Under Livestock Siting Law

The Wisconsin Livestock Facility Siting Review Board (LFSRB or the Board) has had a busy year issuing two decisions so far. In Friemoth v. Walworth County, the Board reversed a conditional use permit (CUP) issued by [Read More …]

Secretary Ross discusses importance of upcoming Global Climate Action Summit and Sustainability Roadmap

CDFA Secretary Karen Ross joined other participants yesterday at AT&T Park in San Francisco to brief reporters on next month’s Global Climate Action Summit, and to release a Sustainability Roadmapfor the event. The Roadmap lays out a [Read More …]

New Dairy Insurance Program Available for 2019 Coverage

Another tool was just added to U.S. dairy producers’ risk management options this week when USDA announced the launch of the Dairy Revenue Protection (Dairy-RP) insurance program. Sign-up will start October 9, 2018 for coverage [Read More …]

New Holstein Grads Top GENEX ICC$™ Index

Leading the Ideal Commercial Cow™ (ICC$™) index following the August sire summary is an exciting new sire, 1HO13471 HYFLOW. This Ragen out of a Josuper stands at +1285 ICC$™ and combines excellent health traits (+7.6 [Read More …]

Vero Startrek highest new daughter proven bull in the Netherlands and Flanders

The August index run shows CRV bulls that make herds healthier and more efficient. The speed of genetic progress keeps accelerating and farmers are reaping the benefits. Nowadays, farm management has become even more key [Read More …]

Register Today – 2018 Cornell Nutrition Conference

The annual Cornell Nutrition Conference is designed to provide industry leading research and information to feed industry professionals and nutritional consultants. Emerging topics across the spectrum of animal nutrition are presented by industry leading academics [Read More …]

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Nominate an agriculture leader in your community by September 14, 2018 Milk Products, maker of Sav-A-Caf® products, is excited to introduce the 2018 Sav-A-Caf® Youth Impact Award. This award will recognize two leaders who encourage [Read More …]

New opportunities for Fleckvieh in August run

The August index run shows CRV’s progress in breeding efficient cows with great longevity. Wobbler was the most widely used Fleckvieh bull in Germany last year. Mesias, Rolls and Mocca Pp are newcomer bulls for [Read More …]

Dr. Robert Moore is the 2018 Recipient of the Industry Distinction Award

On behalf of its industry partners, the Board of Directors of Canadian Dairy Network (CDN) is pleased to announce its selection of Dr. Robert Moore, Scientific Manager at Valacta, as the recipient of the Dairy [Read More …]

USDA Will Spend up to $12B on Farm Trade Disruption

What is known about the government’s farm-related response to retaliatory tariffs. If you have missed the press release from Secretary Perdue announcing our president’s farm-related response to retaliatory tariffs, it is at “USDA Assists Farmers Impacted [Read More …]

AMS-Galaxy-USA teams up with Jones Dairy Service for precision dairy technology in Mid-Atlantic region

AMS Galaxy USA is pleased to announce a new dealer is handling sales and support in the Mid-Atlantic region. Bucky Jones, and his partners in ownership of Jones Dairy Service and Innovative Dairy Systems, recently [Read More …]

St. Johns, Michigan Announced as Preferred Location for Major New Michigan Cheese and Whey Production Facility

Glanbia Nutritionals, Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and Select Milk Producers Inc. (Select), announce that they have, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, selected the City of St. Johns, Michigan as the preferred location [Read More …]

This Week in Dairy with Dan Sheldon of Woody Hill Farm

Joel Hastings of DairyBusiness News interviews Dan Sheldon, a partner with his family in Woody Hill Farm at Salem, NY, where Dan talks about his commitment to dairy records through the DHI system used for [Read More …]

NMPF on effort to block FDA labeling

Jim Mulhern, President and CEO, National Milk Producers Federation, releases statement “Today’s vote should send a very strong message to food marketers who have long been ignoring FDA’s food labeling standards by inappropriately using dairy [Read More …]

Net Merit $ Index Updated To Include Health Traits

With the August U.S. dairy genetic evaluations, Net Merit $ and the other lifetime profit indices have been revised to factor in disease resistance and to update the economic values used in calculations. Net Merit [Read More …]

California cheeses win national honor

Earns 32 awards from American Cheese Society’s 2018 annual cheese competition Cow’s milk processors that use the Real California Milk seal brought home 32 awards from the 2018 annual cheese competition held by the American [Read More …]

Dairy Farm Stress Webinar series archived

Three ISU Extension and Outreach webinars remain available for viewing Iowa State University Extension and Outreach hosted a series of three webinars that discussed how to recognize the signs of stress, how to deal with [Read More …]

Four dairy farm families host Twilight Series

Free meetings connect community leaders, elected officials and farmers Four Wisconsin dairy farm families open their barn doors for the 2018 PDPW ACE On-the-Farm Twilight Meetings on August 27, 28, 29 and 30. The meetings are brought [Read More …]

USDA invests in rural electric infrastructure

Will improve service for more than 1 million residential & commercial consumers Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $345.5 million in 20 infrastructure projects (PDF, 121 KB) to [Read More …]

Meet “The NY Farm Girls” at Empire Farm Days

Three teenage sisters have become upbeat advocates for agriculture on Instagram NY Farm Girls. (Photo courtesy of NY Farm Girls) Instagram stars: the NY Farm Girls are at Empire Farm Days. Three teenage sisters: Evelyn, [Read More …]

CMAB Dairy Princess representatives announced

CA Milk Advisory Board welcomed 2018-2019 class of Dairy Princess representatives From left to right: Sarah Kiser, District 3 Second Alternate; Jeanette Furlong, District 3 Dairy Princess; Megan Binford, District 3 First Alternate; Kiera Searcy, [Read More …]

Dairy Revenue Protection is Here

Sign-Up Begins October 9 Since 2014 the annual average U.S. all-milk price has fallen by more than 30 percent. This year, it is projected to be at the lowest level since 2009, at $16.10 per [Read More …]

Investing in genetics when cash flow is tight

Cost cutting can be an effective tactic to help weather periods of tight cash flow. For many practices employed by dairies, cost-return data can be compiled to evaluate the payback for various practices and identify [Read More …]

News

CWT Assists with 3 Million Pounds of Butter, Cheese and Whole Milk Powder Export Sales

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) member cooperatives accepted seven offers of export assistance from CWT that helped them capture contracts to sell 253,532 pounds (115 metric tons) of Cheddar cheese, 220,462 pounds (100 metric tons) of [Read More …]

Elanco Sells Its Posilac Business To Brazilian Animal Health Firm Union Agener

Union Agener, one of Brazil’s largest animal health companies, looks to be the new owner of Elanco Animal Health’s Posilac business. The deal also will include Elanco’s Posilac manufacturing facility in Augusta, Ga. The purchase [Read More …]

Gene Editing Coalition Formed To Develop Responsible Use Framework