Articles by DairyBusiness News Yoda

Keep milk quality high when the temperatures drop Break out the hand warmers, wool socks and boot dryers – winter is here. Just as you adapt your winter routine to care for your herd, you [Read More …]

USDA Puts Northeast Organic Dairies at a Disadvantage

Fay Benson – Cornell Organic Dairy Program The first year of a dairy heifer’s life has the highest per day costs mainly due to the whole milk fed and labor required for young calves. This [Read More …]

Elanco Animal Health Appoints Chief Sustainability Officer, Emphasizes Continued Commitment to Advance Well-Being of Animals, People and Planet

Elanco Animal Health Inc. (NYSE: ELAN) today announced Sara Place, Ph.D., has joined the company as Chief Sustainability Officer, emphasizing the company’s continued commitment to make an impact on societal challenges by improving the health [Read More …]

Registration, Sponsorships and Hotel Open 2020 Southwest Nutrition Conference

Southwest Nutrition Conference February 5th-7th, 2020 JOIN US IN Chandler, Arizona NEW THIS YEAR: Wednesday, February 6th, 2020 2:00-5:00pm Feed Program Software Session Learn & Train how to use Feed Programs on dairies. Register Now Here Sponsor [Read More …]

Milk Life And Prairie Farms Support U.S. Olympian As She Gives Back To Her Local Community

Team USA Fencer Lee Kiefer Donates a Year’s Worth of Milk to Local Food Bank Milk Life and Prairie Farms Dairy are proud to partner with U.S. Olympian and Lexington native fencer,Lee Kiefer, to donate [Read More …]

Latest groundwater research findings

Problems, Practices and Policies of Wisconsin Waters The more we study Wisconsin groundwater the more questions we have. Make sure you are at the table, as others break down the issues and share what they believe are [Read More …]

Borden Dairy Appoints Yogesh Sabnis as Chief Supply Chain Officer

Borden, one of America’s favorite dairy companies founded in 1857, today announced Yogesh Sabnis as its Chief Supply Chain Officer, effective immediately. Sabnis brings more than 20 years of industry and internal consulting experience in consumer [Read More …]

Farm Credit Honored for Its Support of FFA

The Farm Credit Alliance was recently presented with FFA’s Distinguished Service Citation for its longstanding contributions to FFA and agricultural education. Katie Otto, development director for the California FFA Foundation, the state organization’s fund-raising arm, [Read More …]

Tennessee auctioneer wins World Livestock Auctioneer Championship qualifier

California, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia, auctioneers qualify for World Livestock Auctioneer Championship Massey, Petersburg, Tenn., was named Champion at the 2020 World Livestock Auctioneer Championship (WLAC) Eastern [Read More …]

Cow Comfort Workshops

Each Cow Comfort Workshop is a day-long program held from 9:30 am to 3 pm Cornell CALS PRO-Dairy along with the Central New York Dairy, Livestock and Field Crops (CNYDLFC) team will be offering Cow [Read More …]

USDA improves crop insurance for coarse grains

Recent changes to the insurance policy for coarse grains will take effect in 2020 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced changes to crop insurance for coarse grains in 2020. USDA’s Risk Management Agency [Read More …]

International Dairy Federation welcomes Russia and Kenya to its membership

The International Dairy Federation (IDF), the leading global source of science-based dairy expertise since 1903, has welcomed Russia and Kenya as official members of IDF, raising the overall number of member states within the Federation [Read More …]

Junior All American Winners of 2019 Announced by American Jersey Cattle Association

Twenty-three Jersey youth between the ages of 9 and 20 from nine states have been recognized by the American Jersey Cattle Association as the owners of the Junior All American winners for 2019. The winners [Read More …]

An evening of food, socializing, and education

Call Fillmore or Houston County Extension offices to RSVP by Dec. 10 The Fillmore and Houston County Extension offices would like to invite all local cattle producers to a viewing party for this year’s Cattle [Read More …]

National Young Cooperator Chairs Paul and Nancy Pyle Highlight Challenges Affecting Dairy’s Next Generation

Dairy’s future will depend on its next generation of farmers, many of whom are already hard at work on farms across the country. Young farmers are an important part of the agricultural landscape, and their [Read More …]

UnitedAg awards $11,750 in Vocational Scholarships

Recipients include 10 deserving students in California and Arizona AJ Cisney, Chair of the Board of Directors for UnitedAg and the Education Committee (AEF), announced that the Directors awarded 10 Vocational Scholarships for the 2019-2020 [Read More …]

KUHN Wins Two ASABE Awards

KUHN was recently awarded two AE50 awards from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). AE50 awards were given to the KUHN OptiSense™ belt stall indicator on the MM 890 Merge Maxx® hay [Read More …]

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Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame welcomes six new inductees for 2019

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Six exceptional Canadians were formally inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame at a special ceremony last night in Quebec City. JoAnne Buth, Marc Comtois, Cynthia Grant, the late Louis Latimer, Laurent Pellerin and [Read More …]

Cows on Russian Farm Get Fitted with VR Goggles to Increase Milk Production

The VR headsets will hopefully relax the cows, offering them sun-filled summer views of green pastures. If you walked onto the RusMoloko dairy farm near Moscow, in Russia, you may think you’ve arrived onto a [Read More …]

Alycia Drwencke Joins New SWNY Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Program

Cornell Cooperative Extension continues to provide programming to assist agricultural producers “ Alycia Drwencke joins the SWNY Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Program from Cornell University Cooperative Extension as the Dairy Management Specialist and [Read More …]

J.R. Simplot Company Agrees to Acquire Pinnacle Agriculture

Boise, ID and Loveland, CO – The J.R. Simplot Company, a privately held food and agribusiness company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, and Pinnacle Agriculture Holdings, LLC, a leading agricultural retailer, have announced Simplot’s agreement to [Read More …]

Registration Open – 2020 Anaerobic Digestion Process and Fundamentals Shortcourse

Anaerobic Digestion Process Fundamentals and Management Shortcourse for Agricultural, Food Processing, Industrial and Municipal Operations January 15 – 16, 2020 Cornell University Ithaca, New York Target Audience: Current anaerobic digester system owners, operators, and managers, [Read More …]

Market outlooks with Dan Basse Dec. 18th

While the weather continues to wreak havoc across all sectors of agriculture, an increase in U.S. milk price has been a welcome change to dairy producers. Economist Dan Basse will help make sense of the [Read More …]

Corporate Citizen of the Year: Sargento Foods