Month: August 2023

On Aug. 16, Congressman Derrick Van Orden held a Farm Bill listening session attended by nearly 300 farmers, many of them Wisconsin Fam Bureau members. He was joined by House Agriculture Committee Chairman G.T. Thompson [Read More …]

SWNY Hosts Upcoming Corn Silage Pre-Harvest Meeting

Corn Silage Pre-Harvest Meeting Scheduled for September 1st, 1pm-3pm in Caneadea, NY. Cornell Cooperative Extension offers a discussion-based meeting about corn silage production highlighting particle size, packing density, inoculants, and much more. Join Cornell Cooperative Extension’s [Read More …]

Back to School, Hopefully Soon Back to Fuller Fat

As the calendar flips to August, families across the country prepare to go back to school. For our family, for the first time in 11 years, we only have two children heading back to school. [Read More …]

IDFA’s Healthy School Milk Commitment Already Delivering Results for Milk Processors

As children across the country return to school, IDFA is sharing new data demonstrating the growing popularity among parents for maintaining flavored milk options in schools. Between March 2023 and June 2023, Morning Consult polling [Read More …]

Farm Credit East Cares Donates $100,000 to Organizations Providing Flood Relief

The Farm Credit East Cares Community Fund announced today it will donate $100,000 to organizations assisting producers recovering from July’s heavy rains and devastating flooding. Recipients of these funds include the Vermont Community Foundation and [Read More …]

Brianna Helps Provide 100 Gallons Of Milk For Her Community

Brianna Gives Back To Her Community In Vermont, New England Dairy and dairy farmers from the Green Mountain State are proud to highlight the work of Spaulding High School student Brianna P. Brianna has been [Read More …]

Day-Plus-Night Cooling Strategies Provide Powerful And Cost-Effective Option Against Heat Stress For Dairy Cows Outdoors

August 28, 2023 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

A recent study in the Journal of Dairy Science® explored day-only versus day-and-night cooling strategies for dairy cows housed outdoors, including a novel outdoor use of ducted air systems Hot weather can have a big impact on [Read More …]

Heat Takes a Terrible Toll on Milk Yields

The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report Week Ending August 25, 2023 U.S. milk output turned negative in July, as the heat took a terrible toll on milk yields. The milk production map and the July [Read More …]

Tim Abbott and Mike Duckett introduce Luck-E Acetylene Red, the first Showbox Sires bull

August 27, 2023 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Tim Abbott and Mike Duckett talk with Matt and Joe Engel of Luck-E Holsteins. The Engels are the breeders of the new Showbox bull Luck-E Acetylene Red. The Showbox Sires series, which is hosted by [Read More …]

Calling All Dairy College Students

Are you looking for a way to share your passion of dairy with the public? Are you a college student that wants to learn more about the dairy community? Apply for the Dairy Ambassador Program! [Read More …]

Zoetis Presents First Donation of 2023 to Folds of Honor

Contribution supports education for spouses and children of military service members. Zoetis donated $250,000 in the first half of 2023 to Folds of Honor. This is the second year of partnership with the nonprofit, bringing [Read More …]

USDA, USTR Name New Agricultural Trade Advisors

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai today announced the appointment of 130 new private-sector representatives to serve on seven agricultural trade advisory committees that represent the diversity of U.S. [Read More …]

The Evolution of Precision Agriculture and Policy Implications

Farming is truly a special walk of life. As the saying goes, “Man – despite artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and accomplishments, owes his existence to a 6-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it [Read More …]

Dairy Checkoff Publishes 2022 Annual Report

Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), the planning and management organization that oversees the national dairy checkoff program on behalf of America’s dairy farmers and importers, has posted its 2022 annual report at www.usdairy.com/for-farmers/resources. The report provides [Read More …]

IDFA Statement on FDA’s Appointment of Jim Jones as First Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods

Roberta Wagner, senior vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs for the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), issued the following statement today on the announced appointment of Jim Jones to serve as the U.S. Food [Read More …]

Dairy Market Report: Restrained Supply, Expanding Demand Offer Some Hope for Improved Milk Prices

A restrained supply and expanding demand are offering some hope that the current dire milk-price situation may improve, potentially offering a rapid recovery in dairy margins that are currently at punishing levels for dairy farmers. [Read More …]

Farm Income and Financial Forecasts, August 2023 Update

Date: Thursday, August 31, 2023 Time: 1:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour Host: Carrie Litkowski, Economic Research Service, USDA USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) releases farm income statement and balance sheet estimates and forecasts three times a year. These core statistical [Read More …]

Berg + Schmidt Animal Nutrition opens a new company in Dubai

Berg + Schmidt – Animal Nutrition has unveiled a new subsidiary in Dubai, Berg and Schmidt Middle East Trading LLC. The strategic move will allow the company to respond to the growing demand for feed [Read More …]

Silage Covering and Harvest Management to Maximize Feed Value

Key Points Covering silage piles to exclude oxygen is critically important to control nutrient loss in silage. In research silos, covering with white-and-black plastic with or without oxygen barrier film was effective in minimizing storage [Read More …]

Follow this checklist to optimize immune function

Vaccination – the act of giving a vaccine – is an essential step to raise healthy calves. But truly defending calves against disease requires immunization – a protective immune response that follows vaccination. Even the best calf [Read More …]

Senator Helming, Ag Committee Urge Approval for Whole and 2% Milk in Schools

Senator Helming and members of the New York State Senate Agriculture Committee have joined in a bipartisan push advocating for whole and 2% milk in public school cafeterias. Their letter to New York’s federal delegation [Read More …]

Crafting Cheese, Cultivating Community

Taking a natural ingredient like milk and creating an artisan cheese for people to enjoy drives Emily Montgomery’s passion for making cheese, she says. Montgomery co-owns Calkins Creamery with her husband Jay. The couple returned [Read More …]

Dr. Ken Bailey to Share Updates on Dairy Markets at Dairy Financial Conference

The Conference Will Be Held on September 13 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Dr. Ken Bailey, author of Dairy Economics: Pricing, Policy, and Risk Management and former professor at The Pennsylvania State University and the University of Missouri, will [Read More …]

55th Annual American Dairy Association North East Butter Sculpture Unveiled at New York State Fair

Dairy Every Day is a Healthy Way – Keeping Kids’ Health on Track “Dairy Every Day is a Healthy Way – Keeping Kids’ Health on Track” is the theme of the 55th Annual Butter Sculpture at the [Read More …]

Dairy AdvanCE® Continuing Education Credits Now Available for PDPW’s The Dairy Signal

Continuing Education Key Tool Finds, Tracks and Reports Educational Program Credits Earned Continuing education is key to personal development and business success in today’s dairy industry. Increasingly, customer and stakeholder relationships are influenced heavily by [Read More …]

FMMO Hearing Heralds Farmer-Led Progress for Dairy, NMPF Says

The first day of USDA’s once-in-a-generation hearing on federal milk pricing represents a critical moment for dairy’s future, one in which the National Milk Producers Federation intends to lead, President and CEO Jim Mulhern said [Read More …]

Climate-Smart Food Systems — California works to divert byproducts to livestock feed rather than landfills

In 2022 the California feed industry diverted more than 18.5 million tons of byproducts from human food, fiber and biofuel production to livestock feed. If these byproducts were not diverted to feed, they would likely [Read More …]

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DeLaval Plus Behavior Analysis empowers better decision-making

New data sensor solution uses AI technology to alert cow health events and enables cow localization. Managing a dairy herd just got easier with the aid of DeLaval Plus Behavior Analysis – the latest farm management tool [Read More …]

Dr. Ken Bailey to Share Updates on Dairy Markets at Financial Conference