Month: July 2020

New brand, leadership and products reflect company’s ongoing evolution toward R&D-based ingredient innovation Bluegrass Dairy and Food, Inc., announced today that it has changed its name to Bluegrass Ingredients. The updated name is part of [Read More …]

New York State board seeks dairy research projects

Dairy Promotion Order Advisory Board has issued a RFP for dairy research projects The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets today announced that the Dairy Promotion Order (DPO) Advisory Board has issued a [Read More …]

Federal Incentives For Dairy Can Enhance Carbon-Reduction Efforts

Sharing how his own farm is evolving to carbon neutrality and how the dairy sector is aggressively moving to become carbon-neutral by 2050, Indiana dairy farmer Mike McCloskey highlighted ways federal incentives can further help [Read More …]

USDA releases regional 2018 Census of Ag data

Data released for American Samoa, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and U.S. Virgin Islands The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has released 2018 Census of Agriculture data for American Samoa, [Read More …]

Revisiting Record-Large Negative PPDs on Milk Checks

Milk pricing in the U.S. is incredibly complicated. One particular feature of milk pricing that always seems to rub dairy farmers the wrong way is negative producer price differentials – a line item on the [Read More …]

USDA Releases Report on Investigation into Beef and Cattle Price Spread

Over the last year, the beef and cattle markets have experienced two unique “black swan” disruptions that impacted the markets in similar ways. The first event was the shutdown of a Tyson packing plant in [Read More …]

Cargill’s Diamond V® Partners with US Dairy Education & Training Consortium

Create Dairy Feeder Training Video Series in English and Spanish for On-Farm Use People around the world depend on dairy farmers and their employees to provide a healthy, safe product for animals that are well [Read More …]

‘Adopt a Cow’ brings agriculture to classroom

Interactive lesson series can be incorporated into virtual, in-person instruction Discover Dairy’s “Adopt a Cow” program will be open for enrollment for the 2020-21 school year beginning August 1. The free program is a year-long, [Read More …]

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Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin Board

The Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin (DFW) board of directors re-elected Jeff Strassburg as the Board Chair at its annual reorganization meeting. Strassburg is a fifth-generation dairy farmer from Wittenburg representing District 9 (Menomonee, Shawano and [Read More …]

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Forage webinar aims to save ranchers money

Consider stockpiling warm-season forages and/or planting cool-season pastures Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts will host a forage webinar Aug. 21 on the reduction of winter feeding by stockpiling warm-season forages and/or planting cool-season pastures. The [Read More …]

USDA announces $15 million in funding to support disadvantaged and veteran farmers

USDA announces $15 million in funding opportunities to support socially disadvantaged and veteran farmers and ranchers The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced approximately $15 million in available funding to help socially disadvantaged and [Read More …]

Insurance program for cattle, swine sees improvements

Subsidies have been added and are based on the deductible selected by the producer USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) today announced changes to the Livestock Gross Margin (LGM) insurance program for cattle and swine beginning [Read More …]

New NJHA board members elected in the maroon jacket

VitaFerm® Junior National Hereford Expo (JNHE) was held July 10-15 in Kansas City, Missouri Four National Junior Hereford Association (NJHA) members were elected to the National Junior Hereford Association (NJHA) board of directors at the [Read More …]

Mitigation of greenhouse gases in dairy cattle through genetic selection

Study targets reducing methane production by 20 percent in 10 years according to research in the Journal of Dairy Science® Researchers in Spain propose mitigating methane production by dairy cattle through breeding. In an article [Read More …]

DMI’s Paul Ziemnisky gives an update on work with fast food companies

DMI’s Paul Ziemnisky talks with Joel Hastings of DairyBusiness News and gives an update on work with fast food companies during the pandemic. It has stopped development of new products that use more dairy. Check [Read More …]

Dairy Farmers Find Ways To Help Cows “Chill” During Summer Heat

American Dairy Association North East Highlights Best Practices for Keeping Cows Cool While a heatwave continues to blaze across Pennsylvania conjuring up thoughts of fans, sprinklers and shades, most people may not realize these are [Read More …]

ADM Animal Nutrition Introduces NutriPass™ L Encapsulated Lysine

State-of-the-art, patent-pending encapsulation technique enables a more consistent and available source of lysine for ruminants ADM (NYSE: ADM), a global leader in animal nutrition, today announced the launch of NutriPass L, an encapsulated lysine supplement [Read More …]

Minnesota areas receive crop damage from storms

Widespread wind and hail damage to crops occurred across Minnesota Just about the time it appears that crop conditions are looking near perfect, “Mother Nature” throws a new twist into the situation, which appears to [Read More …]

Free webinar on Aug. 12 to explore dairy industry’s future

The Dairy Future Commission will answer questions, share recommendations Dairy producers and industry professionals are invited to a free webinar, titled “Exploring the Future of the Pennsylvania Dairy Industry,” on Wednesday, August 12 from 12 [Read More …]

Consumer Physics launches new dry matter analyzer to optimize silage harvesting and ensure consistent dry matter intake

The new SCiO Cup enables custom harvesters, feed companies, nutritionists, and dairy and beef producers to analyze dry matter within seconds Ag-tech company Consumer Physics, is introducing SCiO Cup – the world’s fastest, portable, lab-grade [Read More …]

ADSA® Develops the Next Generation of Leaders

Developing the next generation of leaders for the dairy industry is an important objective for the American Dairy Science Association® (ADSA). ADSA sponsors programs for challenging and developing youth for leadership responsibilities. To accomplish this [Read More …]

Wisconsin Producer-Led Watershed Protection Grants Now Open for 2021

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is accepting applications for the Producer-Led Watershed Protection grant program. Applications are due by September 21. These grants are awarded to producer-led groups whose projects [Read More …]

Leveraging New Molecular Technologies to Improve Dairy Operations

New molecular technologies are moving from government and academic research labs to more practical applications that can be used routinely by industry. For example, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) has seen limited applications in industry as [Read More …]

Anthelmintic resistance in gut worms of cattle

With the current Covid restrictions in place, Teagasc is running a weekly Let’s Talk Dairy webinar series which is also being made available afterwards as a bonus podcast episode. On this webinar, host Stuart [Read More …]

Ernst Introduces New Bill to Reward COVID-19 Front Line Workers

The bill includes a payroll and income tax holiday and has the support of 27 industry groups U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) today introduced her new bill to allow essential workers on the front lines [Read More …]

Georgia 4-H youth participate in state dairy competition

Twenty-one youth participated in Georgia 4-H State Dairy Judging Contest Twenty-one youth participated in the 2020 Georgia 4-H State Dairy Judging Contest on July 14. Sponsored by the Ina Hopkins-John W. Cook Memorial Fund, the [Read More …]

Heat stress in gestating dairy cows impairs future generations

Research in the Journal of Dairy Science® studies lasting effects of heat stress on dairy cows It is estimated that in the United States, environmental heat stress in cows costs the dairy industry more than [Read More …]

Dairy’s Safety Net is Best – If Farmers Use It

The Dairy Margin Coverage Program and other federal risk management programs have served farmers well during the coronavirus crisis and will continue to offer effective aid, as long as farmers participate, House Agriculture Committee Chairman [Read More …]

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Borden Dairy Completes Sale to Capitol Peak Partners and KKR

The Company begins a new chapter with an appropriate capital structure and dairy industry veteran executives focused on serving customers and growing the business profitably Borden, one of America’s favorite dairy companies founded in 1857, today [Read More …]

Burger King’s “breathe the farts of change” not passing the sniff test