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IDFA’s Regulatory RoundUP Webinar Series has gone virtual to ensure all IDFA members have access to the dynamic speakers and robust menu of content. July 21 & July 22, 2020 | 12:00 PM – 3:15 [Read More …]

2020/2021 Marketing Year Outlook Remains Foggy

A review of the May WASDE with updates to 2019/2020 marketing year and a first look at the 2020/2021 marketing year for select crops The May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates is the highlight of [Read More …]

2020 DFA Accelerator Class Focuses On Advancing On-Farm Technologies, Sustainability And Innovative Dairy Products

Nine Startup Companies Chosen to Participate in This Year’s Class An all-natural sports drink made from dairy by-products, handheld pizza and Philly cheesesteak cones, a green fashion brand that’s creating t-shirts from excess milk and [Read More …]

Free Dairy Processing Webinar Planned for May 21st, 2020

Cornell Cooperative Extension Specialists Introduce Considerations for Value-Added Dairy Production Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Southwest New York Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops and Harvest New York Programs, with New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets [Read More …]

NNYADP project pilots e-learning for dairy workforce

Veterinarians have begun developing e-learning modules for dairy employee training With a grant from the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program, veterinarians Paul D. Virkler and Paula Ospina have begun developing e-learning modules [Read More …]

Local dairy farms donate more than 13,000 gallons of milk

Thank you to PA dairy farms who are donating excess milk to food banks Two local dairy farms, JoBo Holstein Farm in Gettysburg, Pa. and Mount Rock Dairy in Newville, Pa., recently donated more than [Read More …]

Webinar on respiratory disease cost in dairy heifers

Kevin Dhuyvetter, a technical consultant for Elanco, will serve as the webinar presenter Join the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association for its May 21 webinar – “Economic Cost of Respiratory Disease in Dairy Replacement Heifers.” [Read More …]

Resource requirements of food demand in the U.S.

Study estimates use of natural resources in the food system The U.S. food system comprises all businesses that are either directly or indirectly involved in producing and marketing food products, such as the producers of [Read More …]

‘Taking A Deep Breath’ Can Help Manage A Crisis, Says Farm’s Yeiser-Stepp

The economic and health risks of coronavirus have many dairy producers on edge – but staying focused on the task at hand and remembering the value that dairy farming provides can help carry farmers through, [Read More …]

House Introduces $3 Trillion Stimulus Bill

Earlier this afternoon the House of Representatives introduced “The Heroes Act”, a $3 Trillion Stimulus Package that follows up on the previous ones. It may be voted on by the end of this week. The [Read More …]

Future of Global Protein Webinar Series

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture webinar series began April 9 The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) will be hosting a webinar series focused on the Future of Global Protein. The webinar series will [Read More …]

Die Cut FLEX-TRED® Anti-Slip Tape Enhances Safety on Farm Machinery

Wooster Products’ Die-Cut FLEX-TRED® anti-slip tapes enhance safety on farm machinery by providing a higher coefficient of friction on the applied surface, whether wet or dry. Virtually every piece of agricultural and industrial equipment which [Read More …]

Americas’ Dairy Groups Warn EU Against Market-Distorting Practices

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As the European Union (EU) is poised to begin government-financed intervention purchases of skim milk powder (SMP) and butter, dairy farmers and processors in key dairy-producing countries around the world are calling on the EU [Read More …]

Fairbanks Scales Announces News FB7100 Line of Vehicle Scale Instruments

Updated models improve efficiency for single-scale operations Updated models improve efficiency for single-scale operations Fairbanks Scales Inc., the oldest scale company in the U.S. and the world’s leader in weighing equipment, announces its new FB7100 [Read More …]

Sargento® Introduces Reserve Series™ Slices to Make the Everyday Gourmet

May 15, 2020 DairyBusiness News Yoda 0

Sargento Foods is making specialty cheeses more accessible by expanding their Reserve Series™ product line with 100% real, natural cheese slices Sargento believes everyone deserves the right to elevate their everyday sandwiches and burgers, so [Read More …]

Breeding the right kind of cow is key to dairy profitability

Lloyd Holterman is convinced that breeding the right kind of cow is the key to his dairy farm’s profitability. With his wife Daphne, and their two partners, they milk 1000 cows near Watertown, Wisconsin. Holterman [Read More …]

Merck Animal Health Introduces New Dairy Care365® Biocontainment Training Module

Merck Animal Health today announced the release of its next Dairy Care365® training module on biocontainment. This is the second module of a two-part bioawareism series featuring biosecurity expert Danelle Bickett-Weddle, D.V.M., Iowa State University [Read More …]

Borden Dairy Awarded USDA Contract to Provide 700 Million Servings of Nutritious Dairy Products

Borden will supply milk to non-profit organizations across the country through the USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program Borden, one of America’s favorite dairy companies founded in 1857, was awarded the U.S. Department of [Read More …]

Coronavirus Trade Data: One Month In

Last week USDA released import and export trade data for March 2020, an important new piece of information in understanding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. While the first stay-at-home orders didn’t begin until mid-March, [Read More …]

What farmers need to know about PPP and EIDL

Join the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center (WSBDC) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension for a webinar about the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) business support programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and [Read More …]

May ‘Protecting Your Profits’ webinar to feature guest speaker

Business Consultant Matt Lange Will Share Benchmarking Strategies with Dairy Farmers On Wednesday, May 27 at noon, the Center for Dairy Excellence will host its monthly “Protecting Your Profits” webinar. Matt Lange, business consultant with [Read More …]

House COVID Bill Provides Key Livestock-Industry Support

The Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) supports livestock provisions included in the House HEROS Act, particularly a Dealer Statutory Trust to improve recovery in payment defaults and additional funds for producer payments to compensate cattle price [Read More …]

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