Month: December 2019

The USDA announced this week that SUNY Cobleskill has been awarded a $490,883 Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) grant to expand the capacity of its Dairy Processing Center, helping to address diversification and profitability challenges [Read More …]

CDFA accepting comments on dairy methane grants

Currently taking public comments on next round of methane reduction funding CDFA is accepting public comments on its draft Request for Grant Applications (RGAs) for the next round of methane reduction funding to be awarded [Read More …]

Statewide Poll Reveals Deep Concern for New York’s Small Dairy Farms, With Vast Majority Saying the State Must Take Action

Today, Change Research and Maple Hill – a network of 150 family-owned farms in New York – released the results of a poll assessing public opinion on the state of farming in New York. The [Read More …]

NEDPA Welcomes Alyssa Kealy As Director of Member Services and Industry Relations

The Northeast Dairy Producers Association (NEDPA) is pleased to announce that Alyssa Kealy has joined their staff as the Director of Member Services and Industry Relations. “Since its founding over two decades ago, NEDPA has [Read More …]

United States and China Reach Phase One Trade Agreement

The United States and China have reached an historic and enforceable agreement on a Phase One trade deal that requires structural reforms and other changes to China’s economic and trade regime in the areas of [Read More …]

CWT assists with 1.7 million pounds of dairy product export sales

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) member cooperatives accepted 17 offers of export assistance from CWT that helped them capture sales contracts for 912,714 pounds (414 metric tons) of Cheddar, Gouda and Monterey Jack cheese, 277,782 pounds [Read More …]

The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report

Barrels Give Up The October And November Rally Which Was Not Built To Last Splat! Thus ends my daughter’s favorite Sunday school song. “The foolish man built his house upon the sand, and the house [Read More …]

House Passes Milestone Bipartisan Agriculture Labor Bill; Bipartisan Support Builds Hope for Senate Plan

The National Milk Producers Federation today commended the House of Representatives for its bipartisan passage of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 5038). The bill, the first House-passed agricultural labor reform since a comprehensive immigration [Read More …]

Land O’Lakes Continue Cooperative Health Insurance Program in Year Three

Eligible producers from participating Land O’Lakes co-ops and direct Land O’Lakes Dairy members in Minnesota and Kansas have less than two weeks to enroll in the Land O’Lakes Cooperative Farmer Member Health Plan. For coverage [Read More …]

Extension offers tools to small-scale, raw-milk cheesemakers for safer products

Printed copies are available for cheesemakers that do not have access to the internet Penn State Extension is now offering free online tools for small-scale cheesemakers to help them develop a food safety system for [Read More …]

IDF joins FAO LEAP to look at the role of livestock in addressing climate change and food security

As part of its ongoing commitment to minimise the environmental impact of the dairy sector, the International Dairy Federation (IDF) will participate in the FAO Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership official side event [Read More …]

The Proceedings of the 43rd ICAR Conference held in Prague (June 2019) are now available

The Proceedings of the ICAR Conference held in Pague in June 2019 have been finalised and made available on ICAR site here while all the PPT presentations of the Sessions and Workshops as well as the [Read More …]

Dominion Energy and Vanguard Renewables Form Strategic Partnership to Develop Nationwide Network of Dairy Waste-to-Energy Projects

· More than $200 million strategic partnership will capture methane from U.S. dairy farms and convert it into clean, renewable energy for U.S. consumers · Strategic partnership will substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. [Read More …]

Review 2020 market fundamentals during ‘Protecting Your Profits’

Conference call will be December 18 at 12 p.m. The Center for Dairy Excellence will host its monthly “Protecting Your Profits” call on Wednesday, December 18 at noon. Led by Zach Myers, Risk Education Manager [Read More …]

Time to Pass USMCA

For more than a year, farmers have sent letters and made phone calls to Congress urging passage of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — heck some have even sung about it — but introduction of the implementing [Read More …]

Dairy farmers wanted to participate in milk premium survey

December 14, 2019 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Research team at Cornell University is interested in learning more about farmers’ preferences Milk premiums are an important means to bridge the gap between dairy farm expenses and milk income per hundred weight. The dairy [Read More …]

Farmers Applaud Trump on Phase One of China Deal

The American Dairy Coalition applauds the efforts of President Donald Trump and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer for their hard work and dedication to farmers across the nation for reaching phase one of a new [Read More …]

Join nearly 400 resilient dairy producers and industry professionals at this premier industry event!

December 13, 2019 DairyBusiness News Yoda 0

This biennial conference offers high-quality programming targeted to progressive dairy farmers in the Northeast. Previously known as the NEDPA Conference, the mission remains the same – to provide the latest information on current trends and [Read More …]

Edge dairy group applauds agreement on USMCA

Dairy farmers applaud White House, Dems for agreement on USMCA Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, one of the largest dairy co-ops in the country, today applauded the progress made by the Trump administration and Democratic leaders [Read More …]

Dairy Farmers Remain Resilient in 2019

December 13, 2019 DairyBusiness News Yoda 0

“Resilience” could be the word of the year for America’s dairy farm families in 2019. While on-farm prices have rebounded, farmers tell us that business is still challenging, but the overwhelming message has been that [Read More …]

CHS Inc. Owners Elect Five Board Members During Annual Meeting

CHS Inc. (NASDAQ: CHSCP) owners elected five board members to three-year terms during the cooperative’s 2019 Annual Meeting held Dec. 5-6 in Minneapolis. CHS Inc. is the nation’s largest cooperative and a leading global agribusiness [Read More …]

Improving Human Resource Management on Your Dairy

Human Resource Management is a strategic approach to managing people, and it’s becoming more and more of a hot topic. A lot of us are working on improving HR on the farm, not only because [Read More …]

Show Appreciation to Increase Engagement, Improve Performance

As frequent readers know, I am a reader of leadership books. I believe the ideas in my latest read can greatly contribute to workforce engagement and retention. My goal in this article is to share [Read More …]

Butter and Powder Markets Are Shifting

There are important long-term shifts happening in the nonfat dry milk and butter markets. Estimated inventories of skim milk powder in Europe are dropping quickly which is tightening up the global supply and demand balance [Read More …]

Why Do Cows Leave the Milking Herd Earlier than in the Past?

In 2018, U.S. Holstein cows in the Dairy Herd Improvement (DHI) program remained in the milking herd for an average of 28.4 months. Looking back to those born in 1975, they stayed an average of [Read More …]

Fighting an Uphill Battle

I was recently reading a review of the comments offered by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue while he was visiting World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. I wasn’t there, so I am not defending his [Read More …]

Cheddar Cheese Pricing Rules the Dairy Industry. – Here are the Details and Dynamics.

As covered in many past posts, the cheese price is the most important element in calculation of the Class III milk price. The Class III category is the largest of the four milk Classes. An [Read More …]

Forages, Feeding and the Future

Complete a forage analysis first; then adjust rations, calculate income over feed cost This growing season didn’t start out or end as anyone hoped. Now is the time to make the most of the crop [Read More …]

Eight Steps to Get Your Milking Routine Winter Ready

Keep milk quality high when the temperatures drop. Break out the hand warmers, wool socks and boot dryers – winter is here. Just as you adapt your winter routine to care for your herd, you [Read More …]

Six Management Tips to Raise Milk Yields