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Interpreting Your Soil Test Reports
After you send in your soil sample to the lab you wait patiently for your test results, but when they arrive do you know what it all means? Soil tests are tools that allow [Read More …]
Month: April 2022
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OSHA and IDFA Alliance
Safe, nutritious, and delicious dairy products come from the cow, but they are made by people. Dairy food companies therefore have two shared priorities – worker safety and food safety. In 2021, IDFA and the [Read More …]
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Farmers and Ranchers Feel Crunch of Railway Supply Chain Shortfalls
The domestic rail transportation network is vital to the movement of products and goods supplied by America’s farmers and ranchers. U.S. railways account for nearly 28% of freight movement, second only to trucks within [Read More …]
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Discover Starbar’s New Interactive IPM Module
Beyond annoying animals and employees alike, insects can severely interfere with profitability and impact an operation’s bottom line. To protect the well-being of livestock and avoid lost production, consider implementing an Integrated Pest Management [Read More …]
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Don’t Let Cyber Criminals Get the Upper Hand.
Cyber attacks on food and beverage manufacturers are intensifying across the United States, crippling supply chains, and exposing sensitive information. The Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates malicious cyber activity costs the world $945 [Read More …]
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Creating a Safer Workplace at Your Dairy
Simple reminders serve as effective reinforcement of good, safe work practices. In 2019 the United States employed more than two million full-time workers in production agriculture with nearly 500,000 youth working on farms. Every day about [Read More …]
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Time to Stop Digging
US Dairy farmers need real solutions to dairy pricing woes, not status quo In the game of Monopoly there is only one winner. If current dairy ‘market forces’ prevail, we are steadily moving in [Read More …]
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DFI and DATCP Host Student Loan Debt Relief Workshop: How to Avoid Scams, Use Free Repayment Tools and Save Money
Today, the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced they are hosting a free online student loan debt relief workshop on April 21. [Read More …]
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Spring Has Sprung and Milk Production Increases
The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report Week Ending April 8, 2022 Even as milk production expands seasonally, volumes are tending to run at or below prior year levels. This supports the notion that even though [Read More …]
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Langrehr Joins WDE as Communications Specialist
World Dairy Expo® is pleased to welcome Jenna Langrehr as the organization’s new Communications Specialist. In this role, Langrehr will engage with Expo’s audience on social media, write press releases, and design materials in preparation for [Read More …]
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Godsey Precision Ag Teams With Meristem Crop Performance Godsey
Precision ag expert and Pioneer dealer takes the next step to “…make the drive for improving farmer ROI even more comprehensive and convenient…” After gaining his PhD in Agronomy and Soil Fertility from Kansas [Read More …]
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Danone’s Horizon Organic, #1 Milk Brand In US, Goes Global With Grovara’s B2B Wholesale Marketplace
Grovara, the easy global wholesale experience, has partnered with Horizon Organic® to establish overseas distribution markets for the #1 organic dairy brand in the U.S. “Horizon Organic dry milk is a great fit for our [Read More …]
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Complexity & Dairy MAX demonstrate importance of nutrition for gamers
Dairy MAX challenges esports athletes to test nutrition’s role in their performance Forging valuable partnerships to grow trust with consumers to drive sales has always been a priority for Dairy MAX. In early 2021, [Read More …]
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Dairy farms encouraged to submit events planned in their communities
Center Is sharing list of dairy events to ‘Celebrate Dairy Across PA’ this summer To help share the many contributions dairy farms make to our communities, the Center for Dairy Excellence is building a [Read More …]
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Real California Milk and Latina Singer-Songwriter CRYS Partner
Launch The First-Ever Cheese Record To Kick Off Release Of California Freestyle Music Track Ad Campaign California Freestyle connects the unique sounds and flavors of the Golden State and pay homage to dairy made with [Read More …]
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Hearing for Proposed Revision of Dairy Laboratory Regulation
A public hearing will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 14, 2022, to consider the adoption of a revised administrative regulation that governs fees for dairy laboratory analyses performed by the Kansas [Read More …]
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Stephanie Nash talks music and dairy with DairyBusiness News
Stephanie Nash is a singer/songwriter and advocate for agriculture. Her passion for music and her love for agriculture is her focus. She and her family decided to move to middle Tennessee and keep pursuing their love [Read More …]
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Reissue of April 2022 Holstein Genetic Information
New official U.S. genetic evaluations will be released on Tuesday, April 12. This data will replace the evaluations initially released on Tuesday, April 5, for Holstein animals. Data from the December 2021 genetic evaluations for [Read More …]
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Dairy Industry Invited to first of its kind Data and Innovations Summit
Dairy producers and advisors working with all types, sizes, and breeds of dairy herds are invited to the first of its kind Data and Innovations Summit (DIS) held in conjunction with the National Holstein Convention [Read More …]
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Select Sires’ LIONEL leads multiple industry indexes
Select Sires’ LIONEL leads multiple industry indexes Sire summary results put 7HO14454 LIONEL among the breed’s best sires for Net Merit (+1,252 NM$), GTPI® (+3135), Herd Health Profit Dollars™ (+1,195 HHP$™) and Dairy Wellness [Read More …]
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Questions to Consider Before Disbudding Calves
Work with your veterinarian to develop a disbudding program to enhance animal welfare. Can you tell when your calves are uncomfortable or in pain? Assessing emotional states in animals can be difficult and subjective. Researchers [Read More …]
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NY Farm Bureau asks NYC mayor to discuss milk in schools
President Fisher also asks to meet with Mayor Adams to discuss sourcing more NYS food in city schools New York Farm Bureau President David Fisher expressed his concerns over the potential removal of [Read More …]
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Save the Date for Dairy Financial Conference, Sept. 14
Conference will be at the Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey Hotel in Harrisburg Dairy financial consultants, lending representatives, and interested dairy producers are encouraged to save the date for the 13th annual Dairy Financial and Risk Management [Read More …]
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Ag Economy Barometer slides lower, producers concerned about war’s impact
Producers continue to say that they expect their farm’s financial performance to decline in 2022 compared to 2021 The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer dipped to a reading of 113 in March, down 12 points [Read More …]
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Congress demands Canada meet its USMCA dairy commitments, earning dairy’s praise
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) expressed their deep appreciation for robust Congressional support on ensuring Canada fully honors its U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) dairy market access commitments. Today [Read More …]
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Approach Compliance as a Team Value for Dairy Success
High performance is mandatory to obtain the results that maintain profitability. For example, genetic improvement, activity monitoring, and hormone protocols have delivered higher pregnancy rates in recent years for most dairies compared to what was [Read More …]
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Dairy Revenue Protection – April 2022
Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) is a risk management tool for U.S. dairy producers. Set a floor on market prices when the time is right. Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) is an insurance program for U.S. [Read More …]
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March CWT-Assisted Export Sales Total 73 Million Pounds
CWT member cooperatives secured 67 contracts in March, adding 6.7 million pounds of American-type cheeses, 37,000 pounds of butter, 611,000 pounds of whole milk powder and 895,000 pounds of cream cheese to CWT-assisted sales [Read More …]
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Are You Planning a June or July Dairy Event?
Share Your Event With Us! Are you hosting a consumer event on your farm or in your community this summer? Do you want our help in spreading the word? To help celebrate dairy across Pennsylvania [Read More …]
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Hearing for Proposed Adoption of Animal Health Regulation
A public hearing will be conducted by the Kansas Department of Agriculture at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, to consider the adoption of an administrative regulation that pertains to the cost of [Read More …]