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Ruling restores essential water protections that were in place prior to 2015 under the Clean Water Act Today [December 30, 2022], the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of the Army (the [Read More …]

Statement by Secretary Vilsack on FY 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill

U.S. Senate and U.S. House passed the fiscal year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released the following statement after the U.S. Senate and U.S. House passed the fiscal year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations [Read More …]

Get INSPIRED at Dairy Forum 2023

Your best (and easiest) New Year’s resolution is to connect with dairy’s top executives, celebrate our industry’s continued growth, and learn from the leading thinkers in business and politics at Dairy Forum 2023. Register today [Read More …]

PDPW Focuses on Cold Weather Prep, Feed Additives and Market News

January 2, 2023 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

The Dairy Signal® features interactive discussions with experts to advance today’s dairy farms The Dairy Signal® from Professional Dairy Producers® (PDPW) will kick off 2023 with discussions to benefit a dairy’s people, animals and bottom [Read More …]

CDQAP 2022: Year in Review

This year is nearly over, and we can perhaps be forgiven for breathing a sigh of relief. Drought, uncertain regulatory future, and supply chain issues from the epidemic have lingered. In spite of this however, [Read More …]

The Butter Market has a Sensational Year

January 2, 2023 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report Week Ending December 30, 2022 The butter market began the year at a relatively lofty height, suffered a few spectacular setbacks, and then climbed anew. It spent an unprecedented [Read More …]

2022 DairyBusiness Top 10 – Number 1 Story of The Year By Unique Reader Views

Number 1 News Story June of 2022 Tim Abbott talks about the recent historic and record breaking sale of “S-S-I’s Doc” They call her Doc and she sold with 40 pregnancies for a record price [Read More …]

2022 DairyBusiness Top 10 – Number 2

December 30, 2022 Sarah S News Team 0

#2 in November Optimal Herd Health Starts at Birth The triumphs of tomorrow start with good beginnings. How successful your milking herd is in the future begins with the health of calves being born today. [Read More …]

2022 DairyBusiness Top 10 – Number 3

#3 in January Joel Hastings: With Many Thanks! This issue of DairyBusiness Digital Magazine marks the conclusion of my career as an active and regular content provider for DairyBusiness News. For more than 53 years [Read More …]

2022 DairyBusiness Top 10 – Number 4

#4 in February DairyVoice Podcast: Dr. Doug Hammon of Zoetis on Considerations for BRD Therapy in Heifer Calves Dr. Doug Hammon, DVM, PhD, is the Director of Technical Services at Zoetis. Connie Kuber of Connor [Read More …]

2022 DairyBusiness Top 10 – Number 5

December 30, 2022 Sarah S News Team 0

#5 in September Checkoff-Funded Research Centers Spark Dairy Innovation Specialty cheese was barely noticeable back in the early 1980s, accounting for about 2 percent or less of total sales. Fast forward to today and the [Read More …]

2022 DairyBusiness Top 10 – Number 6

#6 in January Barb O’Brien of DMI on her listening tour and top 5 priorities Last fall, Barb O’Brien was named CEO of Dairy Management, Inc., the national dairy checkoff organization. While she had been [Read More …]

DairyVoice Podcast: Helen Korzek of GPS Dairy Consulting on communication and cultural understanding on the dairy farm

Host of DairyVoice podcast, Connie Kuber of Sealpro Silage Barriers, talks with Helen Korzek about the management of nutrition, repro, animal care and crops evaluated on dairy farms. Helen Korzek is with GPS Dairy Consulting [Read More …]

2022 DairyBusiness Top 10 – Number 7

#7 in October Mountaintop Beverage – A Game Changer #2 If you’re traveling north on I-79 in Monongalia County just past the I-68 split and look to your right as you cross the Mon [Read More …]

2022 DairyBusiness Top 10 – Number 8

#8 October U.S. Milk Output in the Black but What About Demand #2 The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report Week Ending October 28, 2022 U.S. milk output is now growing at a historically normal rate, [Read More …]

2022 DairyBusiness Top 10 – Number 9

December 29, 2022 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

#9 May DairyVoice Podcast: Eve Pollet of Dairy Management Inc. on new opportunities for dairy food ingredients #2 Joel Hastings caught up with Eve Pollet, Senior Vice President of Strategic Intelligence at Dairy [Read More …]

Top 10 News of 2022 on DairyBusiness!

December 30, 2022 Sarah S News Team 0

In review of 2022, we’d like to share our top 10 posts of the year. We will start with number 10 and count down… #10 April 2022 Real California Milk & Latina Singer-Songwriter [Read More …]

California heads into 2023 with most reservoir levels well below historical averages

A year-end status check of levels at 17 of California’s major water supply reservoirs reveals that our recent storms, while certainly helpful, would need to be repeated several times over early in the new year [Read More …]

Applications due by January 15 for AJCA national adult recognitions

December 29, 2022 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Nominations are due in the AJCA office no later than January 15 each year for consideration by the Board of Directors for the Master Breeder, Distinguished Service, and Young Jersey Breeder awards. Master Breeder [Read More …]

Dairy Technology Tuesdays

December 29, 2022 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

January 10 to February 21, 2023 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EST This seven-part webinar series by Cornell CALS PRO-DAIRY and Cornell Cooperative Extension offers cutting edge information about dairy technology from industry experts. If [Read More …]

IDF: World Dairy Situation Report

IDF’s flagship publication on the global dairy sector, covering markets worldwide, global trends and developed by experts from dairy producing countries around the world. The IDF World Dairy Situation Report has been published annually since [Read More …]

Boehringer Ingelheim launches Fencovis®, a new vaccine to prevent calf diarrhea

Boehringer Ingelheim is adding a new vaccine to its bovine vaccine portfolio with the launch of Fencovis®, for the prevention of calf diarrhea, providing passive immunity to calves through the cows’ maternal colostrum. Calf diarrhea, [Read More …]

Penn State Dairy Cattle Nutrition Workshop Is Packed with Information

Workshops and practical sessions offer information you can use to help you or your clients succeed. The Penn State Dairy Cattle Nutrition Workshop has a long-standing history of excellence for keynote speaker presentations, interactive breakout [Read More …]

The Block-Barrel Spread is Widening and It’s Hurting Dairy Farmers

December 27, 2022 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

The gap in price between a 40-pound block of fresh cheddar and a 500-pound barrel has widened steadily over the last two years. At the end of 2018, the average block-barrel spread hovered around $0.12. [Read More …]

What Dairy Processors Need to Know About FDA’s Final Rule

January 20, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. Eastern The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in November, published a final rule “Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods” designed to improve the agency’s ability to [Read More …]

California Bioenergy and Brookfield Renewable form strategic partnership to develop renewable natural gas projects

December 27, 2022 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

California Bioenergy LLC (“CalBio”) today announced a funding partnership, of up to $500 million, with Brookfield Renewable and its institutional partners (“Brookfield”) to scale CalBio’s growth in renewable natural gas (RNG) and other waste-to-energy opportunities. [Read More …]

Mitigate Stress, Understand Heifer Maturity, Corn Silage Nitrogen Use Efficiency

PDPW’s The Dairy Signal® delves more deeply into important topics for dairy farmers The Dairy Signal® from Professional Dairy Producers® (PDPW) will wrap up 2022 with important topics for the people, animals and crops on [Read More …]

NMPF’s Bjerga on dairy’s recent policy wins

As the year comes to a close, NMPF is applauding two recent measures that support the dairy industry. NMPF Senior Vice President of Communications Alan Bjerga spoke with RFD-TV’s own Janet Adkison about how the [Read More …]

Farm Bill Title I Commodity Programs – ARC, PLC and Marketing Assistance Loans

For nearly 100 years, the history of the farm bill largely tracks the history of food production in the United States as the legislation evolves to meet the needs of its modern-day constituents – farmers [Read More …]

Penn State Extension revamps ‘Ag 101’ online course