Month: September 2021

Jonathan Thompson joins the School and will empower faculty to answer the most pressing research questions in animal health. Chemistry helps explain the mysteries of our world. It takes a special mind and years [Read More …]

PDPW Celebrates Week 75 of The Dairy Signal™ with Episodes Focused on Farm Safety, Raising Heifers and Dairy Market News

Free online episodes offer insights to help producers stay on top of industry news and insights Professional Dairy Producers® (PDPW), announces the line-up of speakers for week 75 of The Dairy Signal™. Episodes this [Read More …]

NYS Ag Society looking for 2022 award nominations

Organization recognizes leaders in eight categories annually at their January Forum Harvest is upon us, and so is award season at the NYS Agricultural Society. This 700-plus member organization recognizes leaders in eight categories [Read More …]

American Dairy Association North East to share news live

Look for Checkoff updates during the live broadbast at the All-American Dairy Show American Dairy Association North East wants farmers to know the results of farmer-funded dairy checkoff programs. One new way for farmers [Read More …]

Grants available to address childhood agricultural health

Deadline for letters of intent is Oct. 1. Application deadline is Nov. 1 The National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety is accepting proposals for grants up to $25,000 to support small-scale projects [Read More …]

USDA Invests $700 million to Provide Relief to Small Producers, Processors, Distributors, Farmers Markets and Seafood Processing Vessels and Processors Impacted by COVID-19

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it will soon publish Requests for Applications (RFAs) for new grant programs – the Pandemic Response and Safety (PRS) Grant program and the Seafood Processors Pandemic Response [Read More …]

Senators Announce Bipartisan Bill to Mandate Country of Origin Labeling for Beef

Legislation Would Improve Food Labeling Transparency and Cattle Market Competition On Wednesday, Senate Agriculture Committee members Thune (R-S.D.), Tester (D-M.T.), Booker (D-N.J.), and Rounds (R-S.D.) jointly announced the American Beef Labeling Act. The Act mandates the reinstatement [Read More …]

Workforce Woes: What’s Causing Labor Challenges?

A lack of workers. An increase in COVID cases. An aging labor force. They’re all issues facing US employers as they struggle to fill jobs today and prepare for the labor pool of tomorrow. In [Read More …]

Here’s what happens to the 800-lb butter sculpture after the NYS Fair

800-pound butter sculpture will be recycled into energy at a Western New York dairy farm The 53rd Annual Butter Sculpture at the New York State Fair has come down, but it isn’t going to waste. [Read More …]

Resources available for NY veterinarians

NYFVI and QMPS seeking DVMs to help dairy farms implement Selective Dry Cow Therapy The New York Farm Viability Institute is collaborating with Cornell University’s Quality Milk Production Services (QMPS) to offer support to [Read More …]

National Dairy Council’s new competition focuses on gamers

Students are eligible to compete by developing innovative dairy-based products for gamers The 10th annual National Dairy Council (NDC) New Product Competition seeks the next innovative dairy product from U.S. college students. Undergraduate and [Read More …]

Gain continuing education credits during dairy employee management webinar series

Five-Part series will cover employee communications, management strategies 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 …]

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Nominate milk quality experts for NMC’s Award of Excellence

September 14, 2021 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Award honors member who made contributions to mastitis prevention and control National Mastitis Council (NMC) opened nominations for its Award of Excellence for Contribution to Mastitis Prevention and Control. This award recognizes an NMC [Read More …]

Dairy Markets are Rejuvenated After the Long Weekend

The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report Week Ending September 10, 2021 The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction kicked things off with bang and all products gained significant ground. Cheesemakers are running at their usual pace, [Read More …]

Fuel Up to Play 60 Begins School Year with ‘Fresh’ Approach

September 14, 2021 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

GoNoodle partnership also growing students’ exposure to dairy industry The dairy checkoff is positioning the farmer-founded Fuel Up to Play 60 program in a fresh way to help students and educators navigate the school year. Many teachers are [Read More …]

The Cure Starts Now and Graeter’s Ice Cream Continue the Fight to Find the Homerun Cure™ for Cancer

Graeter’s Annual Cones for the Cure Campaign Runs from September 9th to September 19th with Special Promotions in the Graeter’s App Graeter’s Ice Cream, a 151-year-old, family owned craft ice cream company, has partnered [Read More …]

Conewango introduces The Evolution® RST-Driver™

The RST-Driver, a new liner from Conewango Products Corp., features an innovative transitional barrel with numerous advantages in a long-life rubber formulation. In addition to high-speed milk-out and low mouthpiece vacuum to prevent ringing and congestion and [Read More …]

USDA Expands Assistance to Cover Feed Transportation Costs for Drought-Impacted Ranchers

In response to the severe drought conditions in the West and Great Plains, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today its plans to help cover the cost of transporting feed for livestock that rely [Read More …]

COVID-19 Delta Variant: What Dairy Employers Need To Know

WHAT IS THE DELTA VARIANT? The Delta variant is currently the predominant strain of the COVID-19 virus circulating in the U.S. It is nearly twice as contagious as previous variants and more likely to cause [Read More …]

DFA takes action to keep food pantries stocked with milk

DFA plans to donate 21 refrigerators to local food pantries in 20 states Dairy Farmers of America, along with its employees and family farm-owners, are continuing their commitment to help fight hunger by supporting [Read More …]

Don’t let safety & health take a backseat during harvest season

Progressive Agriculture Safety Day releases September 2021 Safety Day Corner Fall harvest is known as one of the busiest and most dangerous times of the year for the agriculture industry. The long hours, paired [Read More …]

Increasing Freight Rail Rates Put Additional Pressure on Farm and Ranch Income

The domestic rail transportation network is vital to the movement of products and goods supplied by America’s farmers and ranchers. In 2019, over 33 million carloads of U.S. goods navigated the nearly 140,000-mile U.S. rail [Read More …]

Meat, farm workers to get $600 grants in new $700M aid plan

The grants to workers will be handed out by an assortment of nonprofit groups Meatpacking workers and farm workers who were severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic will be eligible to get grants of [Read More …]

Mike Pompeo anchors speaker lineup for Dairy Strong conference

Dairy Business Association event set for Jan. 19-20 Mike Pompeo, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and secretary of state, will be among featured speakers at Dairy Strong, one of the Midwest’s [Read More …]

CDFA announces funding for 2021 CalAgPlate program

Supports ag education activities for students at the K-12, post-secondary, and adult education levels The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is accepting proposals for the 2021 California Agriculture Special Interest License Plate [Read More …]

2021 Indiana Ag photo contest winners

Agritourism, Conservation, Faces of Agriculture, On the Farm categories Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture have announced the winners of the 2021 Indiana Agriculture photo contest. The winning photographs [Read More …]

4 tips to avoid implement entanglement

No matter how many times someone has worked with this equipment, it is still as dangerous as the first time Implements that use augers and power take-offs (PTOs) are an essential part of farm [Read More …]

NYFVI elects officers and new board member

Dave Ryan of Madison County elected as chair The New York Farm Viability Institute’s board of directors (NYFVI) elected new officers and a new at-large board member at its August meeting. Dave Ryan of [Read More …]

Second round of Dairy Excellence Grant funding open for dairy producers

Grants help support improvement projects The second round of funding for the Dairy Excellence Grant Program is now open, and dairy producers have until October 15 to submit a grant application. The program is [Read More …]

Know where and when to apply fall nitrogen fertilizer