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The USDA conducts a Census of Ag every 5 years to collect comprehensive data on various aspects of farming. This article compares the data from the 2017 and 2022 Pennsylvania Dairy Farm Census. The dairy [Read More …]

Calling Interns and Employers: Mark Calendars for 2024 PDP Accelerate™

A dynamic one-day event presented by the Professional Dairy Producers® (PDP) will give agriculture sector interns the tools they need to excel in today’s workforce. PDP Accelerate is set for July 24, 2024, in Madison, [Read More …]

4 Miles, Every 4 Hours for 48 Hours with Tommy Oesch, Swisslane Farms and Clare Alderink, Ryzebol Dairy

Last year, Michigan dairyman Tommy Oesch from Swisslane Farms, told us right here on the Uplevel Dairy Podcast that he planned to complete David Goggins’ extreme 4x4x48 endurance challenge: That’s running 4 miles, every 4 [Read More …]

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Detected in Ohio Dairy Herd

The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) has received a presumptive positive test result of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in an Ohio dairy cattle herd and is awaiting confirmation from the United States Department of [Read More …]

Holstein Association USA Honors Outstanding Junior Members

Holstein Association USA has selected the 2024 Distinguished Junior Member (DJM) Semifinalists and 2024 Young Distinguished Junior Member (YDJM) Finalists. The National Junior Holstein Association is a dynamic organization for youth under the age of [Read More …]

Milk Specialties Global Joins Vanguard Renewables’ Farm Powered Strategic Alliance

Milk Specialties Global, a nutrition ingredients manufacturer, is the most recent food and beverage manufacturer to join Vanguard Renewables® Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (FPSA). The FPSA was launched in 2020 with founding members Unilever, Starbucks, [Read More …]

Dairy’s Foundation Awards Grants to Strengthen Dairy Education and Outreach Efforts

Dairy’s Foundation Campaign Encourages Producers, Industry Allies to Join “Team Dairy” Dairy’s Foundation has awarded grants to programs focused on building healthy and vibrant dairy communities. The grants will support: Mobile Dairy Experience hosted by [Read More …]

Update to USDA Entity-Scale Greenhouse Gas Methods Report Available

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today published the second edition of Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity Scale Inventory. The report provides farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners with the methods [Read More …]

Annual Meat Conference

Every spring, I look forward to the Annual Meat Conference hosted by the Meat Institute and FMI, The Food Industry Organization. This year’s event was held in Nashville just a few weeks ago, and a [Read More …]

DATCP Reminds Farmers to Check Runoff Risk Prior to Spreading Manure

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is reminding farmers and manure applicators to check the runoff risk advisory forecast before spreading manure on fields. This tool helps determine the potential for manure runoff from [Read More …]

FMMO Modernization Must Put Farmers First

This week the arduous process of modernizing the Federal Milk Marketing Order system reached another milestone, with participating organizations submitting their final statements summing up their arguments for why USDA should adopt their proposals as [Read More …]

IDFA: One Human Case Confirmed

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued two important updates on the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) (H5N1) virus in dairy cattle as well as [Read More …]

Empire State Development Announces Application Window Opens For Round Six

The GROW-NY International Business Competition Applications for the $3 million food and agriculture global startup competition will be accepted through May 15. Grow-NY aims to add to the 289 new jobs created by previous winners [Read More …]

UPDATE: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued important updates on the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) (H5N1) virus in dairy cattle, as well as one [Read More …]

Vaccine protects cattle from bovine tuberculosis, may eliminate disease

Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is a livestock disease that results in large economic losses to animal agriculture worldwide. The disease can also transmit to humans and cause severe illness and death. Researchers from Penn State, Addis [Read More …]

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection Reported in a Person in the U.S.

A person in the United States has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus (“H5N1 bird flu”), as reported by Texas and confirmed by CDC. This person had exposure to dairy cattle in Texas [Read More …]

A Dairy Farmer’s Journey Towards Conservation

Mike Lusk, a dedicated dairy farmer in Washington County, sought out assistance when runoff from his farmstead threatened to pollute a nearby stream. He soon found help from the Pennsylvania Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to [Read More …]

Preparing farms for the solar eclipse

Up to a half-million people could flow into the solar eclipse path that will cross Ohio on April 8. The potential increase of visitors to Ohio’s rural areas raises unique safety and legal concerns for [Read More …]

Dairy Producers Can Enroll for 2024 Dairy Margin Coverage Beginning Feb. 28

Payments to Begin Early March Starting next Wednesday, dairy producers will be able to enroll for 2024 Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC), an important safety net program offered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that [Read More …]

Farm Credit East Presents Northeast Forest Products Industry Outlook Webinar

Join Farm Credit East for a webinar on Tuesday, April 9, at 10 a.m. that will cover log, lumber, and biomass markets and other factors important for loggers, processors, and landowners in 2024. 2023 was [Read More …]

National Institute for Animal Agriculture’s Annual Conference will Include HPAI Roundtable

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) will host the 2024 Annual Conference – Next Generation of Animal Agriculture from April 8 to April 10 in Kansas City, MO. With the recent announcements of Highly [Read More …]

Milk tanker truck residue violations decreased in 2023

Less than seven-hundredths of one percent – approximately 1 out of every 14,100 milk tankers – tested positive for antibiotic residues last year, according to the FDA’s National Milk Drug Residue Database Fiscal Year 2023 [Read More …]

NMPF FMMO Modernization Comments Put Farmers First

The National Milk Producers Federation, the largest U.S. dairy-farmer organization and the industry’s premier policy voice in Washington, submitted its final, formal legal “brief” on their behalf for Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) modernization to [Read More …]

USDA Secretary Faces Tense Budget Questioning by House Appropriations Subcommittee

Since the hearing reported below, we have had multiple conversations with Central Valley Congressional staffers about how the exchange between Congressman Valadao and Secretary Vilsack highlights the frustration we have had getting producers resources to [Read More …]

How a Texas Dairy Beats the Heat to Hit 55% Conception Rate

Welcome to central Texas, where summer days exceed 100 degrees and heat stress is one of the greatest threats to cow health, reproduction and performance. But since adding monitoring technology to their 1,250-cow herd last [Read More …]

The Latest Update on Disease Detected in Multiple Dairy Herds

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as state veterinary and public health officials, are continuing to investigate Highly Pathogenic Avian [Read More …]

Cornell Cooperative Extension Collects Survey Data to Help NY Farmers