Year: 2021

In 2020, the ODPA Board of Directors activated a Milk Pricing Review Committee to better understand the issues that negatively affect the milk price dairy farmers are paid. The role of the committee is: To [Read More …]

How to talk about COVID-19 vaccination with your employees

As a manager, your words and actions have potential to influence employee attitudes about the vaccine The decision to receive the COVID-19 vaccine is a highly personal one, yet each individual’s decision has profound implications [Read More …]

How will your farm emerge from the pandemic?

Emergency preparedness should be re-evaluated, plans adjusted It has been more than a year since Coronavirus was declared a pandemic. Everyone has been touched by the pandemic either directly or indirectly. As an industry, agriculture [Read More …]

What They’re Saying About the Growing Climate Solutions Act

Organizations and companies supporting the Growing Climate Solutions Act This week, U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-IN), Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) reintroduced the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act, [Read More …]

First “No Kill” Fertilizer Now Available for Direct Purchase

Johnny Appleseed Organic’s New ClimateGard™ Fertilizer Helps Fight Climate Change After a very successful pre-launch through the crowdfunding site, Indiegogo, Johnny Appleseed Organic officially launched their newest product, ClimateGard™, the first no kill, premium, all-purpose, organic [Read More …]

Real California Milk and Celebrity Dad Mario Lopez Partner to Debut Children’s Stories

Join Mario Lopez and Real California Milk April 24th for Instagram Live Breakfast Story Reading Highlighting the Importance of Family and Breakfast in Instagram Live Event With families balancing work and at-home or modified school [Read More …]

Every Day Is Earth Day For Dairy Farmers

Seven Ways to be Sustainable Like a Dairy Farmer Every April, dairy farmers rally together to celebrate environmental practices that help preserve the earth. On Earth Day especially, everyone is reminded of the continued need [Read More …]

Dow and Shiny Meadow give hard-to-recycle plastic a second life with “Milk Bottle Road”

Partnership creates first road in China made with recycled plastic Dow (NYSE: DOW) and Shiny Meadow, the premium dairy brand in China, announced their partnership to divert plastic waste from the environment. In China’s first [Read More …]

Pneumonia can strike all ages on dairy

Ideal BRD control program can be broken down into three phases “In the dairy world, we tend to think of respiratory disease as a post-weaning event, but its reach goes much further than that,” said [Read More …]

Innovative, milk permeate-based sports drink

Center for Dairy Research partners with entrepreneur on innovative new drink GoodSport, a new sports drink developed in part at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for Dairy Research, has the potential to turn the sports [Read More …]

Center for Agricultural and Shale Law upcoming program

Will cover recent dairy industry developments On Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at 12 noon – 1 pm EDT Penn State Law’s Center for Agricultural and Shale Law will be conducting a third webinar in its [Read More …]

USDA Expands and Renews Conservation Reserve Program in Effort to Boost Enrollment and Address Climate Change

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USDA Also Announces Investments in Partner Programs to Support Climate-Smart Policies Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA will open enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) with higher payment rates, new incentives, and [Read More …]

Spring is here. Tankers are lining up at milk powder plants.

The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report Week Ending April 23, 2021 Spring is here. Tankers are lining up at milk powder plants around the nation. A shortage of trucks and drivers is complicating the annual [Read More …]

“Fundamentals of Milk Market” Announced in The Dairy Risk Management Academy!

May 18th – 20th, 2021 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Eastern What are the major supply and demand drivers for dairy? What are the Federal Milk Marketing Orders and how do they determine prices? Register [Read More …]

Border Restrictions Extended

The land border restrictions between the Canada-USA-Mexico have been extended through May 21, 2021. All “non-essential travel” (including tourism and recreational travel) is still not allowed. Air travel is permitted. Essential travel still allowed; visa [Read More …]

USDA Seeks Comments on Food System Supply Chains in Response to President Biden’s Executive Order

Federal Register Notice Outlines Information Requested by May 21 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking comments on a Department-wide effort to improve and reimagine the supply [Read More …]

Danone North America Drives Innovation in Yogurt, Probiotic and Gut Microbiome Science with $50,000 in Student Grants

Two Graduate Students Each Awarded $25,000 from Annual Gut Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant Program Danone North America is proud to honor their commitment to science and education through the ninth annual Gut Microbiome, [Read More …]

NMPF lauds progress on bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act, welcomes conservation proposals

The National Milk Producers Federation today applauded bipartisan work that’s being done on legislation that would bolster the many conservation and environmental efforts dairy producers are leading as they continue their everyday stewardship of air, [Read More …]

13th Generation. Massachusetts farmers rely on sustainability and community for dairy’s longevity

Darryl and Lucinda Williams operate the Belden dairy farm in Hatfield, MA. Their family has been farming the land since 1661. Over the course of 360 years and 13 generations, much has changed – from [Read More …]

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Washington County Dairy Princess candidates sought

Candidates must be between the ages of 16 and 24 and have a passion for the dairy industry The Washington County Dairy Princess Committee is seeking dairy princess candidates for the important role of promoting [Read More …]

UW students team up to develop dairy solutions

Students work to develop an innovative design for a shelf-stable, quick-cool milk pouch Cold milk has long been offered alongside a lunch or snack in elementary schools. Over the years, the vessel for that milk [Read More …]

Improving the American artisan cheesemaking industry

Top concerns of artisan cheesemakers are examined in new research in the Journal of Dairy Science® American artisan cheese has become increasingly popular over the past few decades. Understanding spoilage concerns and the financial consequences [Read More …]

Central Plains Dairy Foundation awards seven grants for projects

Dairy Innovators Grant awards total of $20,000 to dairy industry projects The Central Plains Dairy Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of the Central Plains Dairy Foundation (CPDF) Dairy Innovators Grant. This year the [Read More …]

4 tips to keep rumens running strong during heat stress

Rev up rations to help cows power through the challenges of heat and humidity. Climbing temperatures may be inevitable this time of year, but dairy cow productivity doesn’t have to be a casualty of heat [Read More …]

DNR Severely Underestimates Costs to Wisconsin’s Farmers from Proposed Manure Spreading Rule

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), Wisconsin Dairy Alliance (WDA) and Venture Dairy Cooperative (VDC) submitted joint comments to the Department of Natural Resources regarding the draft Economic Impact Analysis (EIA) for WT-19-19, regarding NR 151. This proposed rule change includes a widespread prohibition on spreading liquid [Read More …]

Applications for 2021 ACS Certified Cheese Professional™ Certification Being Accepted Through Friday, April 30

The American Cheese Society announced today that applications for its annual ACS Certified Cheese Professional™ Certification are being accepted through 11:59 p.m. MT on Friday, April 30, 2021. The exam in early August will [Read More …]

USDA’s National Agricultural Classification Survey is Underway

The USDA’s National Agricultural Classification Survey (NACS) is arriving in mailboxes around the nation. The survey, one of the most important steps in determining who should receive a 2022 Census of Agriculture questionnaire, asks recipients [Read More …]

Bipartisan Senate Bill Helps Set Rules of the Road for Agricultural Carbon Markets

EDF statement from Elizabeth Gore, senior vice president, Political Affairs The Growing Climate Solutions Act was today reintroduced in the Senate by Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Mike Braun (R-IN) and a bipartisan group of 34 [Read More …]

Minnesota Milk begins FMMO Education Series

Minnesota Milk and Wisconsin Dairy Business Association (DBA) began a Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) education series on Tuesday this week to explain issues within FMMOs causing negative PPDs. As reported and summarized by Dave [Read More …]

Perry’s Ice Cream Unveils 2020 Sustainability Report