Month: December 2018

The United States has rightfully earned its place among the best cheese-making countries in the world. U.S. cheesemakers continue to receive global recognition, winning 89 medals in a prestigious international competition. In fact, U.S. cheeses [Read More …]

Risk Management Webinar Offered for Dairy Farmers

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cortland County and Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY are partnering to offer a “Focus on Risk for Dairy Farmers” webinar at 12:30 to 1:15 PM, January 24. PRO-DAIRY’s Thursday webinar series are free [Read More …]

Index Leaders for Production, Wellness, Type and More

At Select Sires Inc., you’ll find industry-leading sires for a variety of indexes and traits. Select Sires brings consistency, diversity and reliability to customer-owners in an incredibly strong, daughter-proven genetic lineup. Between the Select Sires, [Read More …]

New program to improve rural internet access

USDA launches new program to create rural high-speed internet e-connectivity Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering up to $600 million in loans and grants to [Read More …]

U.S. farmers win trips to the ONE: The Alltech Ideas Conference with #iamAG photo contest

Winners Tammy Wiedenbeck from Lancaster, Wis.; Rachel Ezzell from Waxhaw, N.C.; Jacob Pierce from Waxhaw, N.C.; and Katie Edmondson from Cortez, Col. were selected by public voting on Facebook The Alltech #iamAG online agvocacy photo [Read More …]

Dairy Quarterly Q4 2018: Uncertainty Abounds

The 2018 theme of slowing Big 7 milk production growth has continued to creep into the final months of the year, according to Rabobank’s Dairy Quarterly Q4 2018 report. Q3 2018 growth sunk to just [Read More …]

NMPF Welcomes USDA Assistance, Looks Forward to Farm Bill Implementation

In response to USDA’s announcement of a second round of trade mitigation payments to U.S. farmers, NMPF President and CEO Jim Mulhern offered the following comments: “The tariff-mitigation payment for dairy farmers in this second [Read More …]

Reviewing the 2018 Farm Bill Baseline

The Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 was agreed to by both the Senate and House in early December. The Congressional Budget Office recently scored the 2018 farm bill against the April 2018 baseline for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and mandatory USDA [Read More …]

Joint Contribution by Farm Credit East and CoBank to Support Beginning Farmer Programs

Farm Credit East and CoBank announced a joint contribution of $25,000 to GrowNYC to support its work with Northeast farmers. Farm Credit East provided $12,500 towards this program, which CoBank matched dollar for dollar. The [Read More …]

Dairy Farmers Of America Enters Into Agreement With Agropur To Acquire St. Paul, Minn., Facility

Acquisition Adds Aseptic and Expands Extended Shelf Life to DFA’s Processing Capabilities Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and Agropur announced today that they have entered into an agreement for DFA to acquire Agropur’s St. Paul, [Read More …]

Ohio auctioneer wins World Livestock Auctioneer Championship qualifier

Daniel Mitchell, Cumberland, Ohio was named Champion at the 2019 World Livestock Auctioneer Championship (WLAC) Eastern Regional Qualifying Event. Northeast Georgia Livestock (Athens, Ga.) hosted the final of three WLAC qualifying events on December 12. [Read More …]

Dairy Producers Receive a Boost from USDA

In farm country outside Buffalo, New York, you will find Frank Valent working with his 80 or so Holstein and Jersey cows to put milk on America’s table. Travel about 200 miles southeast to Ohio, [Read More …]

East Central/Select Sires and NorthStar Cooperative sign intent to merge

Two well-known and successful agricultural cooperatives in the upper Midwest have signed an intent to merge. The board of directors for East Central/Select Sires, based in Waupun, Wis., and NorthStar Cooperative, Lansing, Mich., reached a [Read More …]

Massive growth prospects for China’s dairy consumption over the next five years

China will see significant growth potential in the consumption of organic milk, yogurt and cheese products, fueled by increasing demand for premium products from quality-conscious consumers, according to a new report. In the next five [Read More …]

Significant women in ag: Ellen Coblentz

Ellen & Charles Coblentz began with 120 acres leased from Charles’ mother & 28 milk cows If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward. That is the approach that has kept Ellen Coblentz and her [Read More …]

Grab a seat at the table with Governor-elect Evers this Thursday

Wisconsin Governor-elect Tony Evers will speak at the 2018 PDPW Dairy Food & Policy Summit Thursday. Several key influencers and prominent experts from the food and dairy industries, government and regulatory agencies will be in [Read More …]

Holstein Association USA seeks nominations

Nominations are now open for the 2019 Holstein Association USA annual awards including Distinguished Young Holstein Breeder, Elite Breeder and Distinguished Leadership awards. The Distinguished Young Holstein Breeder Award recognizes significant accomplishments of young Registered Holstein® Breeders, ages [Read More …]

PDPW Effective Leadership Workshop Jan. 10

Training program to focus on listening and communications skills for today’s dairy leaders Effective communication and listening skills are key to building successful teams to meet your dairy business goals. The Professional Dairy Producers® (PDPW) Effective [Read More …]

USDA highlights opportunities for producers

USDA is buying products under the Food Purchase and Distribution Program Last week, a new USDA Foods vendor delivered 2,000 gallons of fresh milk to the D.C. Capital Area Food Bank. The delivery was one [Read More …]

New York State Ag Commissioner on the 2018 farm bill

State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball comments on the farm bill I am encouraged to see that we have been able to come together with a multi-year, comprehensive farm and nutrition package that will benefit [Read More …]

AFIA Announces 2019 Event Schedule

The American Feed Industry Association has released the dates and locations for its 2019 conferences and online courses. Registration for several of these events is already open at afia.org/events. “In 2018, we had over 2,000 [Read More …]

Alltech 2018 Harvest Analysis indicates high levels of mycotoxins across the U.S

High levels of risk from DON, zearalenone, fusaric acid, fumonisin and HT-2 Mycotoxins are a concern for livestock producers, as they have toxic properties that impact feed quality as well as animal health and performance. [Read More …]

PDPW Effective Leadership Workshop Set for January 10 in Madison, Wis.

Training Program to Focus on Listening and Communications Skills for Today’s Dairy Leaders Effective communication and listening skills are key to building successful teams to meet your dairy business goals. The Professional Dairy Producers® (PDPW) [Read More …]

AgGateway’s ADAPT and ISOXML Plugin Receives 2019 AE50 Award

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has named AgGateway’s ADAPT and ISOXML Plugin the winner of a 2019 AE50 award. AE50 awards honor the year’s most innovative designs in engineering products or [Read More …]

Darling Ingredients Opens New Nature Safe Organic Fertilizer Plant in Turlock, CA

Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR) announces the opening on January 2, 2019, of its second organic fertilizer production facility in Turlock, CA. The new state-of-the-art facility is located on a 21-acre site and will have [Read More …]

Merck to Acquire Privately Held Antelliq Group

Establishes Merck Animal Health as a Leader in Emerging Digital Tracking, Traceability and Monitoring Technology Complements Merck Animal Health Portfolio of Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals Merck [NYSE:MRK], known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and [Read More …]

EPA and Army Propose New “Waters of the United States” Rule Rejecting Controversial 2015 Obama Rule

On December 11, 2018, U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) rolled out their much anticipated proposed rule revising the definition of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) and setting the scope of [Read More …]

Cohen named Country Manager of Mexico for Allflex Livestock Intelligence North America

Allflex, part of Antelliq, the global leader in animal identification and traceability systems, today announced the hiring of Abraham Cohen as Country Manager of Mexico. In his new role, Abraham will oversee sales and marketing [Read More …]

News

NMC Offers $200 Travel Stipends; CEUs Approved

Promotion is good for first-time veterinarians and dairy producers National Mastitis Council (NMC) is offering ten, $200 travel stipends to dairy producers and practicing bovine veterinarians to attend the NMC 58th Annual Meeting, scheduled for [Read More …]

Arla acquire cheese business from Mondeléz in Middle East