Month: April 2020

Intro The self-distancing and quarantine protocols put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 have reduced economic growth, shuttered consumers in their homes, and changed the way Americans purchase and consume food. A slowing [Read More …]

Thanking California Farmworkers

Thank you, farmworkers. Thank you for the physically strenuous work in all kinds of weather to bring a crop from planting to harvest. Thank you for the daily contributions you make to bring safe, high quality food to our tables [Read More …]

USDA to Hold Online Meeting for Stakeholders to Gather Input about Statistical Programs

April 6, 2020 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will host its annual USDA Data Users’ Meeting on Tuesday, April 21st as a virtual meeting. The event is regularly held to share recent [Read More …]

PDPW launches The Dairy Signal™

Free online resource brings up-to-the-minute dairy insights for informed decisions Professional Dairy Producers® – PDPW launches The Dairy Signal™, an all-new free online resource providing dairy farmers insights for informed decisions. Three times a week, [Read More …]

Application Window Opens for Grow-NY

April 6, 2020 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Applications Now Open for the Second Annual Grow-NY Competition Innovative food and ag startups can win $1 million Apply for Grow-NY 2020 Applications are now open through July 15 The Grow-NY initiative provides funding, mentorship, business development [Read More …]

Another Rough Week On The Farm And In The Markets

The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report Week Ending April 3, 2020 It was another very rough week on the farm and in the markets. The retail surge has petered out, as most Americans have now [Read More …]

Certifier Grants Fee Relief, Temporarily Suspends Audits Due to COVID-19

A Greener World announces temporary policy changes to accommodate farms and businesses, minimize travel and support remote compliance Nonprofit farm certifier and food label, A Greener World (AGW), has suspended audits until May 26 to [Read More …]

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Livestock can’t transmit COVID-19 to humans

Foods from farm animals also are considered safe from the virus The director of a Kansas State University veterinary laboratory that responds to animal health issues across the state says that while coronavirus is a [Read More …]

Future of Global Protein Webinar Series

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture webinar series beginning April 9 The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) will be hosting a webinar series focused on the Future of Global Protein. The webinar series will [Read More …]

PRO-DAIRY e-Alert: Adding milk to manure storage

April 4, 2020 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Processors and Farmers: These are unprecedented times and we should be aware of a range of possibilities, including changes in milk demand. While we hope that milk demand remains strong, should the situation change resulting [Read More …]

Financial Assistance for Farms Facing the COVID-19 Crisis

Early Options Available for Farms to Support Cash Flow The Southwest New York Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Program would like to share recently announced programs that may aid farmers financially. Farm businesses and operations [Read More …]

UW–Madison temporarily closes on-campus dairy

Foremost Farms will coordinate with the state milk inspector to place DCC in a “dry” status In just a few weeks, there have been many changes on the UW–Madison campus – in-person classes have been [Read More …]

COVID-19 Prevention & Control for Farms

Editors note: You can listen to Richard Stup discuss these issues with Joel Hastings on the DairyVoice podcast at DairyVoice.com. The U.S. is confronting an outbreak of a novel coronavirus that causes serious respiratory disease [Read More …]

Increase dairy productivity with insight offered through Technology Tuesday webinars

Technology Tuesday webinars are recorded, available for viewing at later date. Dairy producers, employees, and agribusiness professionals are invited to join Penn State Extension for the last installment of the Technology Tuesday webinar series at [Read More …]

Rethinking Perseverance: How a New Ice Cream Founder Reinvigorated My Faith in Startups

As the world grapples with the implications of COVID-19, shelter-in-place warnings and a plummeting stock market, I began to worry about startups forced to navigate a landscape even more resistant to new things. Sequoia Capital [Read More …]

Three Certainties in Uncertain Times

Anxiety, stress, uncertainty. Confidence, defiance, invincibility. It’s a tale of many conflicted Americans, but no matter which side you fall under, the market has been struck by the former with such force that very few [Read More …]

CoBank: Global Pandemic, Economic Hibernation Disorient Markets, Industries and Communities

Labor and supply chains among the biggest challenges facing essential rural industries COVID-19 has brought the U.S. economy to a screeching halt, ushering in a recession in the process. For most businesses, the sudden stop [Read More …]

Staying the Course

April 3, 2020 DairyBusiness News Team DP 1

John Ellsworth There is a great amount of concern about the Coronavirus, considering the potential for loss of life and for its impact on economy, both domestic and international. Yet, if you’ve been reading my [Read More …]

COVID-19 and Livestock: Is there a connection?

When reports of the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the US, very few people had likely heard of coronaviruses—with some notable exceptions: cattle producers and their veterinarians. It’s not that people involved with cattle [Read More …]

Reducing reliance on nitrogen fertilizers

Biological nitrogen fixation is a more sustainable way to provide nitrogen to crops Three-day-old seedlings of Setaria viridis A10.1 were inoculated with either Herbaspirillum seropedicae SmR1 (fix+) or SmR54 (fix?), while the control (CTRL) plants [Read More …]

Collegiate students participate in 15th annual Western Regional Dairy Challenge®

National Contest Cancelled due to COVID-19 Sixty-six students from eight Western U.S. universities and one Canadian college traveled to Modesto, California, for the 15th annual Western Dairy Challenge on February 20 – 22, [Read More …]

Holstein Association USA adjusts TPI formula

With the April 2020 dairy cattle genetic evaluations, Holstein Association USA will make updates to the Total Performance Index (TPI) Formula. Key points are: 1. Modify the weightings of Predicted Transmitting Ability (PTA) [Read More …]

Intranasal and Injectable Respiratory Vaccines: There’s a Time and Place for Both of Them

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is still a major cause of sickness and death in young beef and dairy calves. While vaccination remains one of the most effective ways to prevent losses associated with BRD, it’s [Read More …]

The Texas Dairy Industry Continues to Grow

From 2002 to 2019 the state of Texas had the biggest increase in milk production in the U.S. both in absolute and relative terms. Texas increased milk production by 8.55 billion pounds, which represents 160% [Read More …]

New Industry-Leading Roxor Lease Program

Easier To Get Off-Road It is now easier to get off-road with Mahindra Automotive North America’s ROXOR lease program. The industry-leadingROXOR lease program provides an easy, hassle-free way to enjoy the toughest, most capable, work/play [Read More …]

Health insurance options for farm families

The National Farm Medicine Center shares tips on where to seeks health insurance Many farm families rely on off-farm jobs for health insurance, and the sudden layoffs and furloughs might mean that farm families are [Read More …]

Chautauqua County youth excel in Dairy Bowl

Competition tests youths’ knowledge of the dairy industry Local 4-H dairy members represented Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chautauqua County’s 4-H Youth Development Program by participating in the Western District Dairy Quiz Bowl competition at Pioneer [Read More …]

Consider More Than Days of Age When Weaning Calves

If calves are experiencing growth slumps, the transition period may need some changes to ensure that calves are ready to make this nutritional change. Different management styles on dairy farms can create different standard operating [Read More …]

Cornell PRO-DAIRY Dairy Webinars in English and Spanish