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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) responded to American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) concerns and affirmed that regulations intended for Wall Street should not extend to America’s family farms. The SEC voted today on its [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 …]

Starbar® Products Launches Aviator™ Fly Bait Aerosol

Fly Control That Goes Above and Beyond The makers of Starbar® products announced the launch of Starbar Aviator™ Fly Bait Aerosol, a simple solution to combat labeled flies in hard-to-reach places, like walls and surfaces [Read More …]

Dave Rama Awarded This Year’s Friend of New York Holstein

We all know that it’s not easy to get one over on Dave Rama. Our Master Breeder Committee kept this presentation very close to our pocket in the hope that we might be able to [Read More …]

Central Plains Presentation to Focus on Mycotoxin Control, Herd Health and Performance

When it comes to mycotoxins, it’s not a matter of “if” they are present, but “what kind” and “how many”. In a global survey, 85 percent of cereal grains sampled were contaminated with at least one [Read More …]

Animal Agriculture Leaders Begin Training Program in Chicago

Cohort 3 of NIAA’s Advanced Training for Animal Agriculture Leaders launch their experiential leadership program The third cohort of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture’s (NIAA) Advanced Training for Animal Agriculture Leaders completed their first in-person leadership [Read More …]

Meet in Colorado for the DCHA Annual Conference and Trade Show

Join the Dairy Calf & Heifer Association (DCHA) in Westminster, Colo., April 9-11, for its annual conference and trade show. The 2024 conference will provide a “bigger reach” by including two pre-conference sessions presented in [Read More …]

Hands-On Dairy Animal Care Training March 20th and 21st

Cornell Cooperative Extension offers two regional workshops for dairy farmers on March 20th and 21st Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Southwest New York Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops team is hosting two opportunities for local dairy farmers to [Read More …]

AgWest Farm Credit Announces Strong Financial Results for 2023

AgWest Farm Credit – an agricultural lending cooperative serving agricultural producers throughout the West – released its 2023 financial results, marking a significant milestone following the merger of legacy associations Farm Credit West and Northwest [Read More …]

DCHA webinar features applied genomics strategies

“A Genomic Journey” headlines the March 19 Dairy Calf & Heifer Association (DCHA) webinar. Asha Miles, U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory (AGIL) research geneticist, Tony Lopes, Tony L. Lopes Dairy LP [Read More …]

CDFA Announces Vacancies on Feed Inspection Advisory Board Technical Advisory Subcommitee

CDFA is announcing three vacancies on the Feed Inspection Advisory Board Technical Advisory Subcommittee. This subcommittee provides technical and scientific advice to the Feed Inspection Advisory Board and CDFA on animal food nutrition, safety [Read More …]

DHIA

Dairy Climate Efforts Making a Difference

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