Year: 2021

June 1, 2021 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

The Phase One Agreement, signed by the United States and China in January 2020, committed China to large, huge even, purchases of U.S. agricultural products in 2020 and 2021. Phase One laid out that over [Read More …]

Select Sires’ Farmer-Owners Propose Unification for Sustainable Future

Vote must be ratified based on bylaws of local cooperatives. The boards of directors from Select Sires Inc. and five local member cooperatives have voted to unite the federation to become Select Sires Cooperative Inc. [Read More …]

New Employee Portal, Simple Overtime, Item Price Lookup and Improved Reports

Red Wing Software Releases CenterPoint Version 16 Red Wing Software has released CenterPoint version 16 for all CenterPoint Accounting and Payroll products. A new Employee Portal is available for CenterPoint Payroll, which makes all payroll [Read More …]

New York Holds Virtual Dairy Day

Agriculture organizations and state lawmakers gathered virtually on May 27, 2021 to celebrate Dairy Day in the State of New York and lead into June is National Dairy Month. The virtual Dairy Day was [Read More …]

Webinar Explores New Evaluation Strategies for an Age-Old Feedstuffs Problem: Mycotoxins

Dr. Carlos Mallmann hosts “New Methods for Evaluation of Mycotoxin Mitigation Strategies” webinar; fifth of seven-part mycotoxin webinar series on Phibro Academy platform While nearly all livestock producers must contend with mycotoxin challenges, the [Read More …]

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Grass Tetany: A Disease of Many Challenges

Lush spring growth in pastures and grass forages can be low in Magnesium, with potential deadly health issues for cattle and other ruminants. Lush spring pasture growth is upon us and given the change [Read More …]

June 21 webinar focuses on lung health in heifers

Join Dairy Calf and Heifer Association (DCHA) for its next webinar – “Healthy Heifers have Healthy Lungs” – set for June 21, at 2 p.m. Central time (U.S./Canada). Lowell Midla, Merck Animal Health dairy technical [Read More …]

Whiteside, Seneca to Host K-State Dairy Days

Annual event covers topics relevant to the state’s dairy industry Kansas State University has announced that the annual K-State Dairy Days will be held June 2 in Seneca and June 3 in Whiteside. Organizers [Read More …]

Three Jersey Youth Receive Fred Stout Experience Award

May 31, 2021 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Three Jersey Youth Receive Fred Stout Experience Award Hannah Diehl, McVeytown, Pa., Elizabeth Gross, New Ringgold, Pa., and Meghan Hettinga, Orange City, Iowa, have been selected as the 2020-2021 recipients of the Fred Stout [Read More …]

Milk is Abundant Prompting Massive Volumes of Cheese

The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report Week Ending May 28, 2021 Spot milk values in the Upper Midwest fell hard this week, making clear that milk is abundant. Steep discounts on spot milk incentivize cheese [Read More …]

Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative awards academic scholarships

May 31, 2021 Sarah S News Team 0

Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative has announced Grant Buwalda and Wyatt Dietsche as the recipients of $1,000 scholarships to assist in their post-secondary education. Students competing for the scholarships were judged on academic achievement, leadership and [Read More …]

sofi Gold, Specialty Food Association, Cultured Butter

May 31, 2021 Sarah S News Team 0

National Recognition Honors Commitment to Bring Quality of Craftsmanship and Ingredients to the Dairy Case Vermont Creamery, known for consciously created fresh and aged cheeses, cultured butter, and culinary creams, announced it won the [Read More …]

U.S. Dairy Applauds Congressional Dairy Champion Letter Urging USDA to Make Low-fat, Flavored Milk School Flexibilities Permanent

A bipartisan group of more than 50 members of the U.S. House of Representatives today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack urging USDA to address the underconsumption of [Read More …]

High-yield Farmers Are Making Foliar Nutrition Pay

“…if we spend a dollar today, is it going to make us two dollars tomorrow” Higher grain prices make a farmer’s choice to feed for yield with foliar nutrients easier, but only if suppliers [Read More …]

Inflation – To be or not to be

The latest report on the Consumer Price Index raised a few eyebrows. Up 4.2% from April 2020, this was the largest one-month jump since September 2008. The increase in April over March’s figures was [Read More …]

Chair Hayes Opening Statement at Hearing on SNAP

House Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Chair Jahana Hayes delivered the following statement at today’s hearing titled “The Future of SNAP: Moving Past the Pandemic”: Good afternoon and thank you, [Read More …]

Shedding light on heat stress and crop yield

Fluorescent light clarifies relationship between heat stress and crop yield Scientists report that it is possible to detect and predict heat damage in crops by measuring the fluorescent light signature of plant leaves experiencing heat [Read More …]

AgChoice PPP loan forgiveness videos available

AgChoice launches educational videos on their website to help PPP borrowers AgChoice Farm Credit recently released two educational videos focused on applying for SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness. The videos, available at agchoice.com/SBALoans, [Read More …]

Newport Laboratories, Inc. announces recipient of inaugural Lex Thompson Veterinary Investigator Award

New award helps veterinary students pursue research into cattle health Newport Laboratories, Inc., a Boehringer Ingelheim company, is proud to announce the recipient of the first-ever Lex Thompson Veterinary Investigator Award. The award, which [Read More …]

Managing People with Changing Labor Laws

Learn about the changing dairy workforce labor laws and the impacts they have during this informative event. Join us for Dairy Workforce Focus: Managing People with Changing Labor Laws, the second in the Dairy [Read More …]

Tillamook County Creamery Association Launches The Partnership For Creamier Ice Cream, Putting the “Cream” Back in “Ice Cream”

With Style Icon and Ice Cream Super Fan Baddie Winkle, the Brand Serves Up a Double Scoop of Hot Takes on The State of Ice Cream A new national survey† of more than 1,500 [Read More …]

Early Renfrow Daughter Donated for 2021 Cow Pie Bingo Fundraiser

SSI – GF 10637 Renfrow 2442-ET, a member of the Jersey ART program at Select Sires Inc., Plain City, Ohio, will be the 10th Cow Pie Bingo calf to benefit Jersey Youth Academy. Select [Read More …]

Sargento Foods Debuts Creamery Sliced and Shredded Cheeses

Just in time for summer cookout season, new line of real, natural cheese delivers an amazing melt thanks to the addition of real cream Sargento Foods has launched Sargento® Creamery Sliced and Shredded Cheeses, [Read More …]

Plant a Seed, Inspire a Dream Campaign Success Will Create Lasting Impact

Professional Dairy Producers Foundation (PDPF), also known as Dairy’s Foundation, recently concluded a major fundraising campaign to support educational programs for the dairy community. Raising a record $76,504, the fundraiser far exceeded the 2021 campaign [Read More …]

$1 million grant aims to identify and implement ecologically sound grazing practices

To identify and implement ecologically sound grazing practices, the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program has announced a $1 million Research and Education Grant, the largest awarded since the program launched. The National [Read More …]

Bolsen Safety Foundation Begins Campaign

commemorating founder Dr. Keith Bolsen 2021 The Bolsen Safety Foundation, dedicated to educating people involved in forage and grain making on safety, begins a “Keith’s Happy Heavenly Birthday” campaign to gain member donors and [Read More …]

Three Jersey Youth Received Fred Stout Experience Awards

Hannah Diehl, McVeytown, Pa., Elizabeth Gross, New Ringgold, Pa., and Meghan Hettinga, Orange City, Iowa, have been selected as the 2020-2021 recipients of the Fred Stout Experience Awards. The fund supporting these awards was [Read More …]

IDFA Lauds U.S. Trade Representative’s Call For Dispute Settlement Against Canada on Its Dairy Tariff Rate Quotas

The International Dairy Foods Association today lauded U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai for initiating a formal dispute settlement case over Canada’s manipulation of dairy tariff rate quotas (TRQs) under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Canada had [Read More …]

Voting Deadline June 1 for California Quota

All California dairy producers are eligible and should have received a ballot to vote on a proposal to end the California dairy quota program (QIP) effective March 1, 2025. And in the meantime, the [Read More …]

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