Month: July 2021

Dairy families cite dramatic drop in water usage in helping state endure record water shortfall Hard hit by the state’s record drought, California’s dairy families launched a public information campaign designed to highlight their [Read More …]

Where Dairy Farming Meets Gaming: Esports Athlete Visits Local Farm

New Video Series in Partnership with Complexity Gaming Takes Esports Fans From Farm to Table Dairy MAX and Complexity Gaming have kicked off a six-episode series, “Cooking with Complexity”, where players and influencers [Read More …]

CDFA Accepting Public Comments On New Management Practices For The Healthy Soils Program

CDFA’s Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation (OEFI) is accepting public comments on recommendations for proposed new management practices to be potentially included in its Healthy Soils Program (HSP). “We are grateful that Governor Gavin [Read More …]

Land O’Lakes Venture37 Celebrates Its 40th Year of Impact

Land O’Lakes Venture37 (formerly Land O’Lakes International Development) celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2021. To honor this milestone, Venture37 has released its 2020 Annual Report, which looks back on the critical work accomplished in 2020 [Read More …]

Find Profit Opportunities in Your Herd Through Genetic Selection and Validation

My goal has always been to help show dairy farmers and veterinarians the positive impact that strategic genetic investments can have on animal health, welfare and their bottom line. With our most recent peer-reviewed validation [Read More …]

Repackaging Dairy’s Benefits to Meet Gen Z’s Tastes

Do you remember the TikTok trend involving feta cheese from earlier this year? A video of a recipe involving a block of feta, cherry tomatoes and pasta went viral in February. It was seemingly popping [Read More …]

Dairy Shrine Awards 39 Scholarships to Dairy Students

National Dairy Shrine (NDS) is excited to announce the recipients of its NDS student scholarships and recognition awards for 2021. A total of 39 scholarships totaling $44,500 will be presented to students at this year’s [Read More …]

Are You Focused on Winning?

Do you ever wonder when your next “win” will be coming your way? I know I often asked that question earlier in my career. It has been said that we normally find what we are [Read More …]

Producer Milk Pricing Fundamentals are Concerning.

Milk production is reaching record levels. Chart I graphically shows the increase based on 12-month moving averages. While the 12-month moving averages are best for seeing long-term trends, the most recent monthly increases in milk production [Read More …]

McGarry Family Recognized with Vermont’s Top Dairy for 2021

Ed McGarry always knew that he wanted to be a dairy farmer. It’s a passion shared by his wife, Diane, and youngest son, Brian, who operate McGarry Dairy, a 115-head Holstein operation in West Berkshire, [Read More …]

Cows And Herds of the Future

There have been dramatic changes in the dairy industry over the past 50 years. The U.S. is producing 60 percent more milk from 30 percent fewer cows than in 1967. This is because each cow [Read More …]

Dairy groups connect members with lawmakers, regulatory issues

DBA, Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative foster engagement at Policy Picnics They call them Policy Picnics — a mix of food, catching up with friends and getting plugged into regulatory issues. The Dairy Business Association [Read More …]

Feed Cost Considerations

Feed cost is the most important and expensive input cost on a dairy farm. For a combination of reasons, feed costs have risen sharply since the fall of 2020. At Central Grain in Sauk Centre [Read More …]

Don’t Return Starch to the Field

Improve starch digestibility and avoid feeding turkeys with a few key strategies. The goal of feed efficiency constantly drives nutritionists to closely monitor and formulate rations with starch digestibility in mind. While this feed factor [Read More …]

CA: Dairy Delivers Methane Reduction

More incentives are needed to maintain progress and reach target by 2030 California’s climate policies are ambitious. More than $13.8 billion has been allocated to date, to support a wide variety of projects that accelerate [Read More …]

Vermont Creamery Wakes Up Sleepy Sour Cream Category Debuting High Fat Cultured Sour Cream Available September 2021

Three Flavors Create the New Industry Standard for Taste – Zesty Cilantro Lime, Savory Fire Roasted Onion & Chive and Crème-Style Classic Vermont Creamery, known for its consciously crafted line of fresh and aged [Read More …]

Designing & Introducing Cheese Quality Attributes

Attention Cheesemakers! We are pleased to announce that we have rescheduled the Designing and Introducing Cheese Quality Attributes course with Prof. Moshe Rosenberg of UC Davis for late September/early October. Please find the details below. Course [Read More …]

High Desert Poised to Double Milk Receipts With News MPC-70 Production Line

Burley co-op adding high-demand protein concentrate to offerings One of Idaho’s leading dairy processors has undertaken a major expansion that nearly doubles its output. The $50 million project will allow Burley-based cooperative High Desert Milk [Read More …]

2020 Disasters Reveal Gaps in Ad Hoc Aid Legislation

This is part two of AFBF’s Market Intel series highlighting disaster-related losses and corresponding policy hurdles farmers and ranchers faced in 2020. This article discusses the gaps and challenges in previous disaster aid [Read More …]

Udder Health: Clinical and Subclinical Mastitis – Dos and Don’ts

Udder Health: Clinical and Subclinical Mastitis – Dos and Don’ts will describe the main best farm practices to enhance udder health and prevent mastitis in dairy cows. This event is being offered at no [Read More …]

IDFA Announces Dairy Forum 2022: NEW. NOW. NEXT.

The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) is pleased to announce that registration for Dairy Forum 2022 opens today. Dairy Forum is back live and in person in 2022 in sunny Palm Desert, Calif. The [Read More …]

Farmfest Feature Forums focus on key ag issues

A feature forum titled “U.S. Ag Policy at the Crossroads …… Where do we go from here?” will be held Aug. 3 The 2021 Farmfest Feature Forums will have a heavy emphasis on key topics [Read More …]

Wisconsin Farm Bureau statement on former WFBF President Dan Poulson

Wisconsin Farm Bureau sends its deepest condolences to the Poulson family Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation President Kevin Krentz released this statement regarding the announcement of former WFBF President Howard ‘Dan’ Poulson’s death: “Dan was [Read More …]

Webinar series to address dairy employee communications, management

Five-part series will cover communications, feedback, employee handbooks Veterinarians, nutritionists and other dairy consultants, as well as interested dairy producers, are invited to participate in a five-part webinar series titled “Transforming Your Team: Employee [Read More …]

BioEntrepreneurship program to fuel NYS life science startups

BioEntrepreneurship fellowship connects participants to life science companies across New York Cornell MBA students and life science researchers will be able to immerse themselves in real-world startup projects and get the tools, training and [Read More …]

U.S. dairy welcomes progress and U.S. leadership in UN Food Systems Pre-Summit

The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) today commended U.S. leadership at the UN Food Systems Summit (UN FSS) Pre-Summit ministerial meeting in Rome. The Pre-Summit has generated [Read More …]

Select Sires Unification Update

The farmer-owner boards of Minnesota Select Sires Co-op, Inc. and COBA/Select Sires Inc. have voted with overwhelming support to ratify the unification of the Select Sires federation. Voting results from Select Sires MidAmerica Inc. did [Read More …]

Idaho Dairy Producer Testifies Before Congress on USMCA Enforcement Importance

National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) Executive Committee member Allan Huttema said USMCA enforcement is essential for the agreement to reach its potential for U.S. dairy farmers in testimony today at a U.S. Senate Finance Committee [Read More …]

USDA Invests $14 Million in Rural Economic Development Projects in 10 States