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In the financial year 2022-2023, the average lifespan and lifetime production of dairy cows in the Netherlands has continued to rise. Last financial year, the culled cows produced an average of 38,327 kg of milk [Read More …]

Farmers Can Expect Limited Disaster Support from the Latest ERP Reboot

On Oct. 27 USDA announced the allocation of more than $3 billion to support commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disasters in 2022 through a modified continuation of the Emergency Relief Program (ERP). Though initially [Read More …]

CDFA helps California dairy farmers generate renewable energy from waste — from UC Agriculture and Natural Resources via Morning Ag Clips

California ranks number one in the nation for dairy production, with 1,100 to 1,200 dairy farms, each with an average of 1,436 cows, mostly concentrated in Tulare County in the San Joaquin Valley. A major [Read More …]

Volunteers and Sponsors Needed for Calving Corner Exhibit at 2024 Farm Show

The Dairy Cow Birthing Center Offers Educational Insight for Families Individuals who have experience working in the Pennsylvania dairy industry are invited to volunteer at the Calving Corner during the 2024 Pennsylvania Farm Show from [Read More …]

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How Can Dairy Farmers Minimize Their Feed Costs While Boosting Milk Fat Content?

In recent years, there has been a surge in demand for milk protein and butterfat in the U.S. While farmers can use fat supplements to increase milk fat, this option increases feed costs. Pioneer® brand [Read More …]

Why a Continued Focus on Automation & Robotics in Ag and Dairy is an Absolute Must

A recent WSJ (Sep. 25) article “Why America Has a Long-Term Labor Crisis”depicted clearly the future of the labor market, something the dairy industry needs to continue to keep in mind as our industry for [Read More …]

Farm Bill Consideration Recedes Into 2024

After a modest degree of speculation that the House of Representatives, under newly-installed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), might move a farm bill yet this year, reality has set in and plans to advance the measure [Read More …]

Webinar-Lessons from the Feedlot: Feeding Dairy x Beef

Join Dairy Calf & Heifer Association (DCHA) for its next webinar set for Nov. 20, at 2:00 p.m. Central time (U.S./Canada). Dr. Aimee Hafla, Cargill Animal Nutrition beef innovation and technical lead-North America, will lead [Read More …]

U.S. cheesemakers win 147 medals at 2023 World Cheese Awards in Norway

November 13, 2023 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Harbison, a soft-ripened cheese with a spoonable texture by Vermont’s Jasper Hill Farm, won the “Best American Cheese” trophy and four medals. The 2023 World Cheese Awards (WCA) held in Trondheim, Norway, awarded U.S. [Read More …]

Butter Market Plummeted Back to Earth

The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report Week Ending November 10, 2023 After more than a month in the stratosphere, the butter market plummeted back to earth. CME spot butter crash-landed today at $2.60 per pound, [Read More …]

Manure Management

Like all animals, dairy cows produce manure every day and manure management is a big part of a dairy farmer’s job. Dairy farmers don’t think of manure as waste – it is a valuable resource that [Read More …]

5 Minutes with Shawano County’s Amanda Williams

Tell us a little about yourself. I’m married and have two boys who are seven and five, with another child on the way. We live outside of Shawano, where we raise a few Holstein show [Read More …]

DCHA webinar features ‘Lessons from the feedlot: Feeding dairy x beef’

Dairy Calf and Heifer Association’s (DCHA) Nov. 20 webinar features “Lessons from the feedlot: Feeding dairy x beef.” This free, one-hour educational offering starts at 2 p.m. Central time (Chicago time). Aimee Hafla, Cargill Animal Nutrition [Read More …]

Farmers Can Expect Limited Disaster Support from the Latest ERP Reboot

On Oct. 27 USDA announced the allocation of more than $3 billion to support commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disasters in 2022 through a modified continuation of the Emergency Relief Program (ERP). Though initially [Read More …]

USDA to Reconvene Hearing on Proposed Amendments to Pricing Provisions for Federal Milk Marketing Orders

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will reconvene the national public hearing to consider proposals seeking to amend the uniform pricing formulas applicable in all 11 Federal milk marketing orders (FMMOs) at 1 p.m. ET, [Read More …]

Texas Voters Approve Proposition 1

The following statement may be attributed to Texas Farm Bureau President Russell Boening on Texas voter approval of Proposition 1 that protects the right to farm and ranch in Texas. “Texas farmers and ranchers are [Read More …]

Horizon Farm Credit Announces 2023 Third Quarter Financial Results

Horizon Farm Credit has announced its 2023 third quarter financial results. Net accruing loan volume for the first nine months of 2023 was $6.4 billion, an increase of 9.3 percent compared to the same 2022 [Read More …]

2023 Corn silage overview

The 2023 growing season varied greatly in the Northeast. These extremes were captured in fields across locations of the NY VT Corn Silage Hybrid Evaluation Program. This level of variation offers the opportunity to contrast [Read More …]

California dairy farmers generate renewable energy from waste

California ranks number one in the nation for dairy production, with 1,100 to 1,200 dairy farms, each with an average of 1,436 cows, mostly concentrated in Tulare County in the San Joaquin Valley. A major [Read More …]

Neutral Foods Unveils New Packaging Design To Educate, Excite Consumers About Carbon Neutral Milk

Nation’s first carbon neutral foods company eliminates CO2 equivalents “from grass to glass” Neutral Foods, the nation’s first carbon neutral foods company, has a brand new look for its cartons of organic whole and 2% [Read More …]

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates: Dairy

The milk production forecast for 2023 is reduced from last month as milk cow numbers were revised lower in the most recent Milk Production report, and the lower estimated numbers are carried into the fourth [Read More …]

NMPF submits dietary guidance comments, FARM launches enhanced biosecurity initiative

The latest Regulatory Register outlines emerging and ongoing regulatory issues affecting America’s dairy farmers and their cooperatives in the areas of nutrition, animal health, food safety, sustainability and the environment, labeling and standards and international [Read More …]

Farm Credit East Offers Scholarships to Support Agricultural Educators

November 10, 2023 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Farm Credit East is pleased to continue its support of Northeast agricultural educators with scholarships to aid their attendance at institutes offered by the Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE). Scholarships will cover up to [Read More …]

DairyBusiness contributor Ashlie Johnson talks about your farms documentation and why it is so important.

Needing to be an ongoing process, good documentation creates credibility for the dairy employer by showing that employees are treated in a fair and consistent manner. Ashlie dives in to what other ways the documentation [Read More …]

Pioneering sustainable dairy farming: Trouw Nutrition expands research campus in Sint Antonis, the Netherlands

Nutreco’s Trouw Nutrition, a leader in functional and nutritional solutions for sustainable livestock farming, reached a new milestone in its journey to help farmers operate more efficiently and sustainably: the expansion of its research campus [Read More …]

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Help us advance animal agriculture

There’s only way to effectively safeguard the future of animal agriculture – together. On November 28, 2023, people around the world are coming together to support causes they care about. Join the celebration by supporting the Animal [Read More …]

October ‘Protecting Your Profits’ Recording Now Available With Dairy Market Updates

Watch or Listen Back to Hear Dairy Market Updates From October 2023 The Center for Dairy Excellence has published its monthly “Protecting Your Profits” discussion with updates about the October 2023 milk marketplace. The Center’s [Read More …]

Three Tiers of Management Training Set for PDPW Dairy Managers Institute

Two-day program features intensive training to build leadership, communication and management skills Today’s managers require a combination of both technical and people skills to effectively lead their teams. A two-day focused management training program presented [Read More …]

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