Year: 2024

New GHG inventory shows dairy efforts are making an important contribution to state climate goals. Agricultural emissions are one of few bright spots in the California Air Resources Board (CARB’s) recently released Greenhouse Gas (GHG) [Read More …]

IDFA Relaunches Live and Active Cultures Seal for Yogurt and Cultured Dairy Product Makers to Showcase Benefits of Gut Health

IDFA’s LAC Seal is the only widely recognized, independent verification of live and active yogurt cultures in the marketplace To help consumers better identify yogurt, frozen yogurt, and other cultured dairy products containing live and [Read More …]

American Cheese Society 2024 Annual Conference

Register by March 17th to lock in the Early Registration Price! Registration is open for the 41st American Cheese Society Annual Conference taking place in Buffalo, NY this July 10 – 13, and if you register by [Read More …]

Uplevel Dairy Talks with Hans Nederend from Nederend Dairies in Marsing, Idaho

Part 1: Secrets to World-class Milk Quality What does it take to maintain milk quality at a level of less than 75,000 SCC on 9,000 cows for 15 consecutive years? You might be surprised. Peggy [Read More …]

Setting business goals and making them stick

Research shows that nearly half of all Americans make resolutions in the new year. Research also shows that about 80 percent of people abandon their New Year’s resolutions by March. Why is that? We all [Read More …]

Center to Host Two March Webinars About Protecting Your Margin With DMC and Recruiting Employees

The Free Webinars Will Take Place on March 20 and March 22 From 12-1 p.m. The Center for Dairy Excellence has two upcoming March webinar opportunities for dairy producers and industry professionals. The first will be a [Read More …]

DCHA Webinar: A Genomic Journey

Join Dairy Calf & Heifer Association (DCHA) for its next webinar set for March 19, at 11:00 a.m. Central time (U.S./Canada). Dr. Asha Miles, Tony Lopes and Tim Baumgartner will lead this free, one-hour educational [Read More …]

Geoff Vanden Heuvel on the Water Muddle

It has been a while since I wrote something on water. That is not because there is nothing happening, but rather a lot of what is going on in water right now lacks clarity or [Read More …]

Statement from Michael Dykes on Passage of the FY2024 Appropriations Bill for USDA, FDA, and Related Agencies

The U.S. Congress this week passed fiscal year 2024 (FY2024) appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies. The bill includes several provisions aimed at promoting dairy’s nutritional importance in the [Read More …]

AgWest Farm Credit Supports New Producers with $15,000 Grant Program

March 13, 2024 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

AgWest Farm Credit, a cooperative lending association dedicated to supporting agriculture, has launched the application window for the New Producer Grant program, designed to help motivated producers get started in agriculture. The grant provides $15,000 [Read More …]

National Dairy Board Scholarship Applications Being Accepted

Applications are being accepted for college scholarships that are awarded by America’s dairy farmers and importers through the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board (NDB). Eleven scholarships worth $2,500 each will be awarded, in addition [Read More …]

Midwest Dairy Announces New Chief Executive Officer

Midwest Dairy, the checkoff organization representing over 4,000 dairy farmers in a ten-state region, officially announced that Corey Scott of Marine on Saint Croix, Minn. has been named its new Chief Executive Officer. Scott is [Read More …]

Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation Establishes Board of Trustees

A newly formed group of Wisconsin Farm Bureau leaders convened for the first time on March 6 as the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation Board of Trustees. The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation Board of Trustees was [Read More …]

Checkoff Strategies Building Consumer Trust In Dairy

Most people are exposed to about 4,000 advertising messages a day. Complicating matters is their average attention span is around six seconds. This, sadly, is about two seconds lower than that of a goldfish, or [Read More …]

The Time is Now to Act on ARIP Funding

For many years we have seen tension between local governments and farmers caused by the need to haul heavy loads over roads and bridges that weren’t up to the task. These crumbling pieces of infrastructure [Read More …]

AI’s Growing Role in Agriculture

Many times, while standing on the very land my father and grandfather cultivated, I reflect on how things have changed. From the adoption of new sustainability practices to our approach to livestock management, our farming [Read More …]

USDA Assists Farmers, Ranchers and Communities Affected by Catastrophic Texas, Oklahoma Wildfires

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to aid recovery efforts for farmers, ranchers and residents affected by recent wildfires in the Texas panhandle and western Oklahoma. To date, around [Read More …]

IDFA Relaunches Live and Active Cultures Seal for Yogurt and Cultured Dairy Product Makers

Showcase Benefits of Gut Health IDFA’s LAC Seal is the only widely recognized, independent verification of live and active yogurt cultures in the marketplace To help consumers better identify yogurt, frozen yogurt, and other cultured [Read More …]

Live Auction to Benefit Dairy’s Foundation Set for 2024 PDP Business Conference

March 13 Auction to Feature Florida Vacation Rental, Michael Hoffman Training Session, IVF Session A live auction at the 2024 Business Conference presented by Professional Dairy Producers (PDP) will give attendees the opportunity to bid [Read More …]

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates: Dairy

Milk supply and use estimates for 2023 are adjusted to reflect revisions in production and cold storage data. For 2024, milk production is lowered due to a smaller dairy cow inventory and slower growth in [Read More …]

Health Trait Model Updated, Reflecting Data Surge

Since these traits debuted six years ago, the number of health records in the National Cooperator Database has tripled or quadrupled – depending on the trait. Detail here. With this data surge, the trait model has [Read More …]

California Spotlights Innovative Dairy Options, Global Flavors at Pizza Expo In Las Vegas

Event marks kickoff of 6th annual call for innovative pizza recipes using California cheese, International Pizza competition held for global impact Innovative products, on-trend applications and an international pizza bake-off are elements of the California Milk [Read More …]

A Call for Trade Reform for U.S. Dairy: If Not Now, Then When?

Last week’s World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC13) ended without significant progress on WTO reform for agriculture, a binding dispute settlement system, or improved market access for U.S. dairy exporters—an unsurprising result that reflects [Read More …]

Over 140,000 Farms Lost in 5 Years

Between 2017 and 2022, the number of farms in the U.S. declined by 141,733 or 7%, according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, released on Feb. 13. Acres operated by farm operations during the same timeframe [Read More …]

DBIA Market Report Provides Valuable Insights to U.S. Goat and Sheep Cheese Manufacturers

Opportunities abound for U.S. goat and sheep cheese manufacturers to successfully compete with imported products through packaging improvements and retailer education, according to new market research released by the Dairy Business Innovation Alliance (DBIA). A [Read More …]

Extension will host a USDA Dairy Margin Coverage Program update

The USDA began accepting applications for the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program February, 28, 2024, for enrollment in 2024. The DMC program is designed as a risk management program, offering protection to dairy producers when [Read More …]

Emerging Salmonella variety in dairy cows found to worsen antimicrobial resistance