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Experience the future of dairy technology at the Central Plains Dairy Expo You have mountains of farm data available to you. But with an ever-growing need to feed the world, you don’t have time to [Read More …]

Michigan dairy farms partner with Brightmark to produce renewable natural gas from manure

Company’s latest biogas project includes unique wastewater treatment plant partnership post-gas extraction Brightmark, a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, today announced that it has partnered with three Western Michigan farms on the latest [Read More …]

Cheese Power at Susquehanna County Ag Day

We scooped up 19 tubs of Manning’s ice cream and had cheese samples Pictured left to right: Susquehanna County Dairy Princess Kyleigh Jones, Wyoming/Lackawanna Princess Loghan Hirkey, other members of the Susquehanna County Dairy Court, [Read More …]

Dairy Defined: Lactose-free milk is growing faster than plant-based. You didn’t know that?

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This might be tough to digest if you’re a plant-based fundamentalist, but the numbers don’t lie: In 2019, lactose-free milk sales grew twice as fast as plant-based beverages, with lactose-free poised to surpass almond-beverage sales this [Read More …]

Leading Midwest dairy co-op adds farmer-led conservation group coordinator

Leading Midwest dairy co-op adds farmer-led conservation group coordinator Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative has added a coordinator for the co-op’s support of a growing number of farmer-led watershed conservation groups. Jamie Fisher will work directly [Read More …]

National Farmworker Awareness Week Provides Opportunity to Celebrate Farmworkers and Educate Consumers About the Many Hands That Feed Them

This month, Equitable Food Initiative, the workforce development and training organization that partners with growers, farmworkers, retailers and consumer advocacy groups, is marking National Farmworker Awareness Week by encouraging growers and consumers to share messages [Read More …]

Ag education student, Fresno State win state farm bureau discussion titles

Senior agricultural education student Austin La Salle earned media notoriety last year as a campus farm student worker who helped raise one of the farm’s prized products, Fresno State sweet corn. That experience helped yield [Read More …]

Maine Livestock Farmer Survey

At University of Maine Extension we think a lot about the care and welfare of livestock and poultry – sometimes referred to as “food animals” in Maine. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the [Read More …]

CentralStar Cooperative hires new group of employees

CentralStar Cooperative serves dairy and beef producers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana. Growing business for the historical cooperative continues to create new opportunity to hire on more employees. During the last three months, 18 employees [Read More …]

Fifteen Students Receive a Total of $18,500 in 2020 Premier Select Sires Scholarships

Click Image to Enlarge Premier Select Sires awarded a total of $18,500 to 15 college students through the 2020 Premier Future Ag Leaders Scholarship competition. Two students received $2,500 scholarships through the Johnny Daniel Memorial [Read More …]

After winning the world’s best camembert title, Agropur is named the maker of the best cheddar in the world

Agropur is proud to announce that its Grand Cheddar Aged 3 Years and Grand Cheddar Aged 1 Year – both made at its Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil, Quebec plant – have been awarded the “Best Cheddar Aged Two [Read More …]

Who will lead our rural communities?

Our rural communities need future leaders April 4-5, 2020 Dodgeland High School, Juneau, Wis. We need to invest in the future now. Our food systems need the best and the brightest to fulfill the numerous [Read More …]

Dairy West expands innovation partnerships team

Liz Miles recently joined Dairy West as innovation partnerships manager. Based out of the organization’s Meridian, Idaho, headquarters, Miles works with retailers and foodservice companies to promote the sales and consumption of dairy foods and battle food [Read More …]

Holstein Foundation Graduates Young Dairy Leaders Institute Class 11

More than 45 young adults from across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico recently graduated from the Holstein Foundation’s eleventh Young Dairy Leaders Institute class, with Phase III being held February 5-8, 2020 in Phoenix, [Read More …]

Barn Meetings on Dairy Cattle Reproduction

Day of dairy reproduction education to be held at two locations, March 17th and 18th Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County educators April Wright Lucas and James Romack invite farmers to join them and guest [Read More …]

Milk Quality Online Course: Online course registration closes Today!

Online registration closes today – don’t miss your chance to take this course! Course Information The Milk Quality Online Course will cover basic milk quality, milking parlor and mastitis management principles lead by [Read More …]

Spring Weed Control in Alfalfa

As spring approaches, forage weeds can become a problem. Certain herbicides can be applied, but timing is critical As warmer weather approaches, start thinking about controlling winter annual weeds (especially common chickweed) in alfalfa. Keep [Read More …]

Operation desert corn: Bayer opens new high-tech greenhouse in Arizona

The German chemicals and life science giant Bayer has opened its new automated greenhouse facility in Marana, Arizona. The facility is the first of its kind for the company and the most technically advanced, the company says [Read More …]

Applicants Sought for Holstein Association USA Junior Advisory Committee

Holstein Association USA is currently seeking applicants to fill three open seats for adult representatives on the Junior Advisory Committee (JAC) from Areas II, III and IV. Applications must be submitted to Holstein Association USA [Read More …]

Indiana Pork, Soybean Alliance partner with Fair Oaks

Will provide discounts to school field trips, transportation grants Indiana Pork and the Indiana Soybean Alliance are excited to announce a partnership to allow more school-aged children to visit Fair Oaks Farms. Both groups have partnered [Read More …]

DBA applauds water quality credit clearinghouse

Law will enhance program that capitalizes on farmers’ conservation work The state’s leading dairy lobbying group applauded Tuesday’s signing by Gov. Tony Evers of legislation that creates a streamlined process for trading water quality credits [Read More …]

KDA to host livestock export seminars

Thursday, April 2, in Hays and Friday, April 3, in Manhattan A global need for quality breeding stock and genetics is creating market opportunities for Kansas livestock producers. To meet the growing demand, the Kansas [Read More …]

Dairy Protein Market to Garner $14.54 Bn, Globally, by 2026 at 5.6% CAGR, Says Allied Market Research

Increase in demand for protein as nutritional and functional ingredients, rise in demand for infant formula coupled with consumer awareness regarding healthy diet drive the growth of the global dairy protein market Allied Market Research [Read More …]

Merck Animal Health Expands Pinkeye Vaccine Portfolio through New Licensing Agreement

Licensing deal with Addison Biological adds Moraxella Bovoculi Bacterin Merck Animal Health (known as MSD Animal Health outside the United States and Canada) has announced an agreement with Addison Biological Laboratory, Inc., to market the [Read More …]

Ag Economy Barometer pushed to all-time high

Data is based on a mid-month survey (Feb. 10-14) of 400 U.S. agricultural producers Producers’ perception of improved current conditions in the agricultural economy pushed the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer to all-time record highs. The [Read More …]

Thirteen producers elected to CentralStar Board of Directors

Member-stockowners of CentralStar Cooperative confirmed the election of 13 dairy and beef producers to the board of directors at the cooperative’s annual meeting in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. “We are fortunate to have such a talented and [Read More …]

Winter calf feeding research helps cold climate dairies

Research funded by the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program Winters in Northern New York can be harsh. One farm has already adjusted its winter calf nutrition program based on participating in research funded [Read More …]

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Conversation on farmland and development to occur in conjunction with Ag Day

Ag Day 2020 is scheduled for March 18 at the State Capitol Every year, about 50,000 acres of fertile California farmland and ranchland are lost to development. That is why protection advocates will [Read More …]

Professor and author Alan Levinovitz to speak at 2020 Summit