Month: February 2023

The impact of SGMA (State Groundwater Management Act) on California’s dairy and cattle industries was the focus of a meeting held February 2 in Tulare at the Veteran’s Memorial Building. Presented for the first time [Read More …]

Agribusiness Outlook 2023: Risk management can help dairy thrive in the face of global uncertainty

The dairy industry, like most agribusiness firms, must deal with risk perhaps more than any other. There’s little reason to expect smoother sailing or lower prices in 2023, as soaring input prices, record drought, staff [Read More …]

Dairy Trends to Watch in 2023

The dairy industry is expected to face several challenges throughout 2023, including extreme inflation, supply chain issues, shifts in consumer behavior and other external factors influencing consumer demand in the new (ab)normal. Despite these challenges, [Read More …]

How Do You Measure Success?

Are you thriving in your business or simply surviving? This is a crucial question to answer, especially as we move through years that are financially challenging. As I mentioned in a prior blog, the rising [Read More …]

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Maola Milk Named Official Milk of Popular Virginia Universities

Maola Milk has been named the Official Milk of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Rams and James Madison University (JMU) Dukes. Maola Milk is proudly owned and operated by Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers [Read More …]

Fall 2022 Survey Reveals Marginal Drought Improvements for Farmers and Ranchers

With over 60% of the American West, Southwest and Central Plains categorized as D1 (moderate) drought or higher, AFBF conducted a fourth round of its survey to evaluate drought’s continued impact on farm and ranch [Read More …]

BMR, Non-BMR and Male-Sterile Sorghum

Is the nutritional value different? Reduced well capacity is a growing threat to forage production to feed cattle in the U.S. southern High Plains. The intensity of droughts impairs forage production in irrigated lands that [Read More …]

The Big Cheese

Kerry Henning has a larger-than-life personality—a booming laugh, a huge grin, an endlessly cheerful attitude—and he makes larger-than-life cheddar to match. “Mammoth cheddars are any wheel of cheese 75 pounds or bigger,” says the Master Cheesemaker, whose [Read More …]

Management Points to Consider when Increasing Milking Frequency

Increased milking frequency can offer an increase in milk productivity and farm income. Switching from milking the dairy herd from two times a day (2x) to three times (3x) or more times a day has [Read More …]

What does 2023 hold for Texas dairy?

Happy New Year to Texas dairy farmers, and welcome to Austin to all the state lawmakers who have returned for the 88th Texas Legislature. At this start of a new year, I’d like to reflect on [Read More …]

Western Dairy Management Registration Deadline February 6

The registration deadline for the 2023 Western Dairy Management Conference is Monday, February 6. This is for the early bird conference registration price of $390 and to take advantage of the hotel room rates for [Read More …]

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Evonik invests €25m in methionine intermediates production plant upgrade in Wesseling/Germany

Investment will safeguard long-term supply of MMP to European methionine production hub Improvements made possible by production process innovations Increase in efficiency and safety at the site Evonik has invested €25 million developing and expanding [Read More …]

On Nutrition, It’s Defense That Wins for Dairy

While advocating for dairy farmers is always rewarding work, some of its most frustrating, but necessary, challenges come when, instead of working to push policy forward to improve dairy farmers’ lives and businesses, we at [Read More …]

Dairy Excellence Grants open for applications starting Feb. 1

Grants support improvement projects related to cow comfort, efficiency, milk production The next round of funding for the Dairy Excellence Grant Program opens on February 1, and Pennsylvania dairy producers have until February 28 to [Read More …]

Indiana forage enthusiasts to gather

Indiana Forage Council (IFC) Annual Meeting and Seminar is Feb. 9 The Indiana Forage Council (IFC) Annual Meeting and Seminar will take place Feb. 9, 2023, at CLAAS of America in Columbus, Ind. The location [Read More …]

Three dairy farmers re-elected to Edge board

Brody Stapel re-elected to serve as president Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, the nation’s third largest dairy cooperative, re-elected three dairy farmers to the board of directors during the co-op’s annual business meeting at the Dairy [Read More …]

Minnesota Milk 2023 fiscal and policy priorities

Farmer-led environmental initiatives, infrastructure improvements, supporting sound science The Minnesota Milk Producers Association, Minnesota’s most prominent dairy lobbying group, released its 2023 policy and fiscal priorities. The MN Milk board of directors established priorities to [Read More …]

‘Tribute to Texas Leadership’

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Graham, Hlavinka received distinguished agriculture leadership awards Charles W. “Doc” Graham ’53, DVM, and Terry Hlavinka ‘85, were honored on Jan. 18 at The Austin Club in Austin with the Texas Agricultural Lifetime Achievement, TALL, [Read More …]

DairyVoice Podcast: Hannah Thompson-Weeman, Animal Agriculture Alliance, on animal activism and making a plan

In this DairyVoice episode, Connie Kuber of Connor Agriscience interviews Hannah Thompson-Weeman of the Animal Agriculture Alliance. They discuss the challenges of handling media, animal activist groups and the need for a plan. Hannah details [Read More …]

Leprino’s Durkin Elected Chair of Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy

Mike Durkin, president and chief executive officer of the Leprino Foods Company, was elected chair of the board of directors of the checkoff-founded Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy at its first meeting of 2023. Durkin [Read More …]

PA Dairy Summit: Participate in an Interactive Biosecurity Session

Bring an Aerial Photo of Your Farm We learned from our poultry partners the risk of not having a biosecurity plan for your operation. With National FARM’S new secure milk supply agreement, it’s easier than [Read More …]

Building trust and demand for dairy in 2023

Programs from the Midwest Dairy Association are reaching more consumers than ever in the 10-state region with 39 million consumers. Already, the year is off to a running start with dairy products playing a key [Read More …]

Farm Credit Awards Efforts to Develop and Promote Northeast Agriculture

The Farm Credit Northeast AgEnhancement Program, a joint effort of Farm Credit East and CoBank, recently provided $65,000 in grant funding to 17 organizations to assist their efforts to support young and beginning farmer initiatives, [Read More …]

Engaging in Export Opportunities: Join Us for the Dairy Innovation Forum

If you haven’t signed up already, we hope you’ll join us for the FREE Dairy Innovation Forum on Tuesday, February 7 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in State College. Titled “Engaging in Export Opportunities,” the [Read More …]

Protecting Your Profits

If you couldn’t join us live this week for the “2023 Dairy Market Outlook: Where Are We Headed?” webinar, the recording is now available to watch or listen to at your convenience. Rob Goodling, agricultural business consultant with [Read More …]

Nominations open for New York Dairy Promotion Order Advisory Board

Any individual producer who markets milk in New York may be nominated for membership on the Advisory Board New York State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball today announced that nominations for new members to the [Read More …]

TYM USA and Branson Tractors merge to become TYM North America

The newly formed brand has emerged as a powerful force in the agricultural industry TYM USA and Branson Tractors, two leaders in the agricultural tractor manufacturing space, have officially merged and rebranded as TYM North [Read More …]

Focus on Forage webinar series in Feb/March

Series is presented live every other Wednesday in February and March Focus on Forage is a FREE, 4-part webinar series being offered by UW-Madison, Division of Extension. Each session in the series will highlight research-based information and on-farm strategies to [Read More …]

Question & answer with Dairy MAX: 2023 and beyondQuestion & answer

Marty McKinzie and Kay Johnson Smith answer questions about Dairy MAX’s work in 2023 Dairy MAX will hit the ground running in 2023 to fulfill its mission of advocating with purpose by connecting dairy experiences [Read More …]

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