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Annual Meetings and National Heifer Sale to be changed to virtual venue The American Jersey Cattle Association (AJCA) board of directors voted Friday, with support from the board of National All-Jersey Inc. (NAJ), to cancel [Read More …]

Animal Agriculture Alliance promotes Casey Kinler to director of membership and marketing

Kinler to assume new role May 1 The Animal Agriculture Alliance announced today that Casey Kinler has been promoted to director of membership and marketing and will assume this new role on May 1. In [Read More …]

IDFA – Updates, Resources, and News on the COVID-19 Crisis

Dear Dairy Community, We hope that you, your families and your colleagues are doing well and staying healthy. To those who have sent a note telling us that our work for you is helpful and [Read More …]

Advisory Committee schedule extended by one month

One Month Added to Advisory Committee Schedule, Advisory Report to be Submitted by End of June 2020 The 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s schedule has been extended by one month, in consideration of new demands on [Read More …]

Using Surplus Milk as Fertilizer

April 15, 2020 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Guidance from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Given the current market disruptions created by the COVID-19 emergency, farms may continue to play [Read More …]

USDA Should Up Commodity Purchases to Help Farmers, Foodbanks

In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Tuesday morning, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota urged the Administration to maximize the purchase of agricultural commodities for donation and distribution to aid [Read More …]

Minnesota Dairy Producers Light the Way to Industry Recovery

There’s the dairy industry recovery plan everyone is talking about, and then there’s the plan everyone should be taking about. This week, the National Milk Producers Federation-International Dairy Foods Association captured the lion’s share of [Read More …]

USDA implements measures to help rural residents

USDA Rural Development has taken a number of immediate actions to help rural residents, businesses and communities affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Rural Development will keep our customers, partners, and stakeholders continuously updated as more [Read More …]

Dumped milk no joke for Georgia dairies

The Johnson Family wasn’t playing an April Fool’s joke when they posted a video on their Providence Dairy Facebook page showing about 5,400 gallons of milk gushing from their milk tank down the drain. The [Read More …]

COVID-19 could alter ag trade relationships

COVID-19 has raised questions about diversifying suppliers for world-wide trade While progress was being made on the U.S.-China Phase One agricultural deal with changes to regulations on non-tariff barriers, COVID-19 has raised questions about diversifying [Read More …]

How USDEC cuts red tape to keep U.S. dairy exports moving during COVID-19 pandemic

When Mexico issued a decree that could have reduced U.S. dairy exports by $120 million, USDEC worked around-the-clock to get that decision reversed. In 2019, USDEC’s Market Access and Regulatory Affairs (MARA) team freed up [Read More …]

Scouting Small Grains Diseases for Improved Fungicide Decision Making

Commit to scouting and growth staging your small grain to understand if the disease intensity warrants a fungicide application. Deciding to apply or not to apply fungicides in your small grain crops should be on [Read More …]

Rebalancing Production Can Speed Market Recovery, NMPF’s Vitaliano Says

National Milk Producers Federation Chief Economist Peter Vitaliano says government support for dairy producers to reduce production in coming months can speed dairy’s recovery from coronavirus-driven price declines. Production balancing is part of the NMPF [Read More …]

Growing Great People: Training Skills for Dairy Farmers

Become an Effective On-The-Job Trainer The four hands-on regional training workshops “Growing Great People: Training Skills for Dairy Farmers. Become an Effective On-The-Job Trainer” scheduled in April by Cornell Ag Workforce Development in partnership with [Read More …]

World Food Prize Foundation Laureates and Experts Featured in 2020 Digital Dialogue

The World Food Prize Foundation (WFPF) announced this week its first virtual series, Digital Dialogue. The series will address critical issues in developing a resilient global food system. The first webinar will focus on the [Read More …]

CWT Assists with 3.8 Million Pounds of Dairy Product Export Sales

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) member cooperatives accepted 32 offers of export assistance from CWT that helped them capture sales contracts for 2.070 million pounds (939 metric tons) of Cheddar, Gouda and Monterey Jack cheese, 275,578 [Read More …]

NMPF Launches Social Media #dairyneverstops Campaign

Following the release of its joint Milk Crisis Plan with the International Dairy Foods Association earlier this week, the National Milk Producers Federation today began a social-media campaign geared toward dairy farmers and their allies, [Read More …]

Health and Wellness Superstars Join NxGEN

Select Sires added two sires to the NxGEN® lineup and continues to expand the offering of the industry’s most elite genomic young sires to nine. 7HO15097 T-Spruce Nugnt GRANADA (+2898 GTPI®) and 7HO15115 Aurora RAGNAR [Read More …]

NMPF Asks Labor Department, USDA to Offer H-2A Relief for Dairies

The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is asking the Labor and Agriculture Departments to accept and approve H-2A visa applications from dairy farmers offering temporary immigrant farmworker employment for up to 364 days in a [Read More …]

What’s With All of the Milk Dumping?

April 13, 2020 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Cornell Cooperative Extension Specialists Share Information about the Current Dairy Situation The Southwest New York Dairy, Livestock, and Field Crops Program would like to reassure the region’s consumers that there is no reason [Read More …]

NMPF Applauds USDA Move on Milk Disposal, Urges Further Action

The National Milk Producers Federation thanked the U.S. Department of Agriculture for allowing discarded milk to be counted toward milk marketings for the Dairy Revenue Production (DRP) or as actual marketings for the Livestock Gross [Read More …]

Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship welcomes Sullivan

April 13, 2020 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Angie Sullivan joins DGA’s core administrative staff as Apprenticeship Director Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship (DGA) is pleased to announce that Angie Sullivan has joined its core administrative staff as Apprenticeship Director. Sullivan will be overseeing daily [Read More …]

Volatility Reigned In The Markets Again This Week

The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report Week Ending April 10, 2020 Volatility reigned in the markets once again this week. After much back and forth, nearby Class III futures finished even lower than last Friday. [Read More …]

Next dairy industry conference call scheduled for April 14

Dairy producers are encouraged to join the call to address their COVID-19 concerns Approximately 400 dairy farmers and industry professionals participated in a dairy industry conference call this week to address their questions and concerns [Read More …]

AFT launches Farmer Relief Fund

Because it’s simple: No Farms No Food® The coronavirus pandemic is impacting businesses that rely on direct contact with their customers, including farmers and ranchers that primarily sell their products through farmers markets and to [Read More …]

Detlefsen Predicts Protective Equipment Shortages in Food Chain to Linger into Summer