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New York Farm Bureau pushes back against proposed chocolate milk ban New York Farm Bureau’s President, David Fisher, sent a letter to the New York City Schools Chancellor, Richard Carranza, asking him and city leaders [Read More …]

7 USDEC strategies opening doors in China and Japan for U.S. dairy farmers

Effective today, China waives a retaliatory tariff on U.S. permeate for feed, illustrating how solving global problems can benefit our dairy farmers. As our farmers look to the future, it makes sense to gaze across [Read More …]

Indiana cow tops National Junior Ayrshire Show

Senior 3-year-old exhibited by Dillon Freeman of Bremen, Ind. Nor-Bert Reinholts Lochin V, the Intermediate Champion and first place Senior 3 Year Old, exhibited by Dillon Freeman of Bremen, Ind., won the Premier National Junior [Read More …]

CentralStar accepts applications for 2020 summer internships

CentralStar Cooperative serves dairy and beef producers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana. They have nine agricultural-related internship opportunities available for summer 2020: six in artificial insemination (A.I), two in milk and diagnostic testing, and one [Read More …]

Praise for proposed imitation dairy legislation

DBA applauds proposals to stop mislabeling of imitation dairy products The state’s largest dairy lobbying group today applauded three state lawmakers for a new legislative effort to stop the use of misleading labels on imitation [Read More …]

Farm Credit East Announces Variable Interest Rate Reduction

Farm Credit East’s Board of Directors approved a reduction in the financial cooperative’s base variable interest rate pricing by one quarter of one percent (.25%). This interest rate reduction applies to all Farm Credit East [Read More …]

Secretary Perdue celebrates Farm Safety Week

Agriculture is one of the most dangerous professions in the United States U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded President Trump’s proclamation making September 15-21, 2019 National Farm Safety and Health Week. The theme for this [Read More …]

Lely North America Announces The 2019 Future of Dairy Scholarship

Lely North America is proud to present the Future of Dairy Scholarship Program for the fourth year. Five qualified students residing in either Canada or the United States are chosen annually to receive a one-year, [Read More …]

Texas Farm Fresh Jump with Jill tour kicks off

Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller kicks off the Texas Farm Fresh Jump with Jill Live Tour Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller announced the return of the Texas Farm Fresh Jump with Jill Live Tour for the [Read More …]

Dr. Karl Dawson of Alltech inducted Animal and Food Sciences Hall of Fame University of Kentucky

Complementing his many and varied achievements over the course of an extremely successful career, Dr. Karl Dawson, chairman of Alltech’s scientific advisory board, has been inducted into the Animal and Food Sciences Hall of Fame [Read More …]

New York City schools want to ban chocolate milk

Holy cow. The city Department of Education wants to ban chocolate milk from public schools, The Post has learned. Citing health concerns, including sugar content, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and his underlings are pushing for [Read More …]

September’s Dairy Data Dashboard

Every month, USDEC aggregates domestic and global dairy data to create 10 charts displayed in a one-page, printable dashboard. The September Dairy Data Dashboard is now available. Get a one-page PDF of this dashboard. [Read More …]

House Ag Democratic Leadership Supports Funding for Farmers

Filemon Vela, Chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities; Jim Costa, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture; and Collin Peterson, Chairman of House Agriculture Committee are leading efforts to [Read More …]

Last Call for DMC: Farmer Safety-Net Signup Ends Friday

With sign-up for the 2019 Dairy Margin Coverage program ending Friday, the National Milk Producers Federation urged all dairy farmers to enroll in the program, which guarantees a payout for producers that’s higher than program [Read More …]

Wisconsin State groups call for halt to livestock farm siting rule changes

A host of groups representing nearly every aspect of Wisconsin’s livestock agriculture industry are together calling for the state’s ag oversight agency to reject proposed changes to rules that regulate local approval of new or [Read More …]

September Crop Report Shows Slight Yield Declines

While on the higher side of pre-report estimates, the USDA September Crop Productionreport shows corn and soybean yields are down from 2018 and lower than the projections posted in the USDA August Crop Production report. Corn [Read More …]

USDA to measure northeastern milk production

Results will be published in the Milk Production report on October 21 Thousands of milk producers across the country, including over 4,000 in the Northeast, will receive surveys from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National [Read More …]

Data shows economic benefit to Amplimune use

NovaVive Inc., an animal health immunobiology company, today announced that research data related to its regulator-approved immunotherapy for calf scours (Amplimune®) was presented at the 2019 American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) Annual Conference in [Read More …]

Dairy on the Air: Building Trust in Dairy

The Undeniably Dairy campaign, now in its second year, is making strides in building consumer trust in dairy. In the most recent episode of Dairy on the Air, host and Midwest Dairy CEO Lucas Lentsch sits down with [Read More …]

DAIRY DEFINED: WITH DEMAND AT 56-YEAR HIGH, “DEATH OF DAIRY” IS A MYTH

Dairy is facing challenges. In a crowded beverage marketplace, per-capita fluid milk consumption in the U.S. is down by a quarter in the past 20 years, and the number of U.S. dairy farms dropped 6.8 [Read More …]

Introducing the KUHN MM 890 Merge Maxx® Hay Merger

With 30’ of pickup in a single pass, the KUHN MM 890 Merge Maxx® hay merger is the newest addition to the growing KUHN hay merger lineup. It is unique in the industry and unmatched [Read More …]

NACD Statement on Repeal of EPA’s WOTUS Rule

Today, the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) issued the following statement regarding the decision of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to finalize the repeal of the Waters [Read More …]

California-sponsored climate adaptation policy adopted by national association of state Ag departments