Month: March 2023

Grants to Edesia Nutrition and Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida will reduce hunger for thousands while new partnership with MANRRS will help minority students enter careers in dairy The IDFA Foundation completed its [Read More …]

Alec’s Ice Cream Goes Nationwide

Now Available in Over 1,000 Stores Including Sprouts Farmers Markets and Natural Grocers First and only climate-conscious, A2 dairy ice cream brand takes home ‘Best New Dessert’ NEXTY Award for its newest flavor, Peanut Butter [Read More …]

Nomination Period Open for Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin Board of Directors Election

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is accepting nominations through March 31, 2023 for nine seats on the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin (DFW) board of directors. The eight districts up for [Read More …]

Congress and Food Producers Insist on Need for Robust U.S. Steps to Protect Common Names

The Consortium for Common Food Names (CCFN) and Agri-Pulse joined congressional leaders on Capitol Hill today to discuss the efforts by certain trading partners to monopolize common food and beverage names under the guise of [Read More …]

Checkoff, General Mills Partnership Emphasizing Yogurt Innovation, Sales

Yogurt is a powerful entry point to attract younger consumers to the dairy category. It also can be a re-entry point for people who may have stopped eating yogurt but who are willing to give [Read More …]

Key Factors To Achieving Nutrition Consistency

As weeks and months go by in a cow’s lactation, changes can disrupt the normal calm cows appreciate. Forage changes, ration updates, new feed ingredients, weather challenges and other factors can affect the cow’s nutrition [Read More …]

Constructed ID’s: Eliminating Pedigree Dead Ends

Knowing an animal’s ancestry several generations back is certainly the goal for breeders; however, there are instances where animals have a gap in their pedigree. When animals have such a gap, like an unknown sire [Read More …]

2022 Beef Sired Progeny from Dairy Cows

While Angus sires continue to dominate beef x dairy matings, the frequency of other beef sire breeds in beef x dairy matings is increasing. Penn State just completed a third year investigating optimal sire breeds [Read More …]

Good Vs. Bad: the Battle of Bacillus

On the outside, cows appear to be simple creatures, spending their time each day doing relatively simple tasks. In a perfect world, their lives are rather uneventful. While there doesn’t seem to be much happening [Read More …]

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Carbon Intensity Applied to New York State Dairy Manure Anaerobic Digestion to Renewable Natural Gas

The information provided in this analysis report of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (CA LCFS) Carbon Intensity (CI) score applied to biomethane or renewable natural gas (RNG) produced from dairy manure anaerobic digestion [Read More …]

Whole- and Reduced-fat Dairy Foods and Cardiovascular Disease

The 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) recommends choosing low-fat or fat-free milk, yogurt and cheese as part of healthy eating patterns. Dairy foods such as milk, yogurt and cheese make significant nutrient contributions to [Read More …]

Could This Be the Answer for You?

If you are like most business people, you have probably been feeling the profit margins tighten as we have begun this year. If not, you are truly living a “charmed life…” Frankly, I believe most [Read More …]

Beef and dairy industries must cooperate for greater success

I’ve been in the dairy business all my life. My parents, Pat and Peggy, launched Sustaire Dairy here in Winnsboro, Texas, back in 1966, and while I was growing up, they expected me to pitch [Read More …]

The Wheel Deal!

Some choose the cheese life. Others are born into it. But for Bruce Workman, it was fate. On a Saturday night in Monticello, Wisconsin back in the 1970s, teenage Bruce ran out of gas while [Read More …]

Texas dairy producers face challenges amid good milk prices

Texas dairy producers continue to face challenges despite favorable milk prices over the past year, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. Jennifer Spencer, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension dairy specialist, Stephenville, said milk prices remain historically [Read More …]

Proper preparation perpetuates progress on plant-based labeling

March 3, 2023 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

The late-February release of proposed FDA guidance on the labeling of plant-based beverages is far from what dairy producers want or consumers deserve. The agency’s justification of terms including “almond milk,” “soy milk” and other [Read More …]

DairyVoice Podcast: Geoff Vanden Heuvel on the water situation in California

How will state groundwater regulations affect the California dairy industry? A new study reveals possible impacts. DairyVoice guest Geoff Vanden Heuvel talks with Editor Emeritus Joel Hastings, describing the findings and how dairy producers are [Read More …]

Hands-On Calving and Dystocia Workshop Series

Regional NY sites March 15 through March 28, 2023 To pull or not to pull? That is (one of) the questions dairy farm personnel have while working in the maternity area on a farm. This [Read More …]

Proper Preparation Perpetuates Progress on Plant-Based Labeling

The late-February release of proposed FDA guidance on the labeling of plant-based beverages is far from what dairy producers want or consumers deserve. The agency’s justification of terms including “almond milk,” “soy milk” and other [Read More …]

Unfilled Railroad Grain Car Orders Persist into 2023

Weather and Labor Continue to Challenge Railways As shared in an October 2022 Market Intel, third quarter domestic rail service data indicated improvements in average rail speeds, unfilled grain car orders and employment numbers. A dive [Read More …]

CentralStar Cooperative scholarship applications due June 1

CentralStar Cooperative, serving dairy and beef producers in the upper Midwest, is accepting scholarship applications until June 1, 2023. The cooperative is offering seven, $1,000 scholarships, this year, and those interested can find the application [Read More …]

Next Generation of Dairy Innovations on Nexus Stage at PDPW Business Conference

Five companies to present technologies and ideas twice each during conference New ideas and technologies that will drive the future of the dairy industry will be presented on the Nexus® stage at the 2023 Business [Read More …]

Cargill provides support to University of Idaho’s Center for Agriculture

Food and the Environmentto advance more sustainable dairy farming Dairy sustainability scientists and innovators will soon have the nation’s largest research hub to test their ideas and develop technologies in the Pacific Northwest. The Idaho Center for [Read More …]

Farm Credit Contributed Nearly $1 Million to State’s Ag Organizations in 2022

Largest provider of credit also committed to long-term viability of California’s farms and ranches Farm Credit is the largest provider of credit to U.S. agriculture, but its support goes much deeper than that. Farm Credit [Read More …]

Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative welcomes effort to halt misleading labeling

Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, one of the largest dairy co-ops in the country, welcomed the reintroduction of federal legislation that would address the misuse of dairy terms on the labels of imitation dairy products. Today, [Read More …]

NMPF praises re-introduction of DAIRY PRIDE Act, calls on Congress to finish FDA’s job

NMPF commended a bipartisan group of senators, led by Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-WI; Jim Risch, R-ID; Peter Welch, D-VT, and Susan Collins, R-ME, for re-introducing the DAIRY PRIDE Act, which would end the problem of consumer confusion [Read More …]

Creameries encouraged to participate in 2023 Ice Cream Trail

Ice Cream Trail celebrates Pa. Dairy & PA Preferred® operations The Center for Dairy Excellence, PA Preferred®, and the Pennsylvania Tourism Office are once again seeking creameries to participate in the 2023 Pennsylvania “Scooped” Ice [Read More …]

Chairman Thompson Reflects On Today’s Hearing On The Challenges Facing American Agriculture

Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, delivered the closing remarks below following today’s full committee hearing entitled “Uncertainty, Inflation, Regulations: Challenges for American Agriculture.” “Today’s hearing has really shined a spotlight on the issues confronting [Read More …]

Southwest Pennsylvania Regional Dairy Day

Please join us at the annual Southwest Pennsylvania Regional Dairy Day for an informative workshop designed for dairy producers and other affiliated industry personnel. Thu., Mar. 9, 2023 from 8:45 AM – 2:30 PM ET Location: Chestnut Ridge [Read More …]

Franklin County Dairy Farmer Shares How Heat Abatement Is Impacting Production