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Pete Curran has been hired as Membership Director of Wisconsin Farmers Union Wisconsin Farmers Union is pleased to announce that Pete Curran has been hired as Membership Director. In this role, Curran will be responsible [Read More …]

The T.C. Jacoby Weekly Market Report

Dairy Markets are Resolved to Improve Their Health in 2020 The winter is off to a mild start, and the cows are loving it. Milk yields and components remain high, and milk is sloshing around [Read More …]

Modern on-farm preparedness workshops & webinars

Classes will help farmers prepare for everything from natural disasters to social media A new workshop & webinar series “Modern On-Farm Preparedness” is ready to begin at the end of January. These classes will help [Read More …]

PA Farm Show Butter Sculpture Deconstructed, Recycled at Juniata County Dairy Farm

The 104th Pennsylvania Farm Show has ended, and so has the “East Meets West” dairy tailgate party featuring three of Pennsylvania’s most beloved, buttery sports mascots – Philadelphia Eagles’ Swoop, Pittsburgh Steelers’ Steely McBeam, and Philadelphia Flyers’ Gritty. [Read More …]

Dairy Defined Podcast: NMPF’s Bleiberg Discusses Dairy’s Legislative Year Ahead

Election years always pose challenges for getting things done on Capitol Hill, but dairy is well-positioned to make gains in 2020, according to Paul Bleiberg, the National Milk Producer Federation’s vice president of government relations. [Read More …]

NEW HOLLAND ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NATIONAL HEMP ASSOCIATION

January 14, 2020 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Alliance to support farmers in building America’s newest sustainable and versatile commodity crop through educational outreach Leading global equipment manufacturer New Holland has partnered with the National Hemp Association (NHA), the nation’s leading non-partisan hemp [Read More …]

Midwest Dairy Grants Total of $95,000 to Second Harvest Heartland for Coolers

Fresh produce, lean protein and dairy products are in high demand at food shelves. This donation makes it easier to store and provide what food shelf clients need most: nutritious foods. Midwest Dairy has provided [Read More …]

Mt-Glen Farms receives Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award

The Jacksons use agricultural conservation practices that to retain nutrients on the soil, while protecting water quality Mt-Glen Farms has been selected for the 2019 Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award®. Dean and Rebecca Jackson own and [Read More …]

Livestock rule unlikely to provide needed protections

NFU’s Johnson: “…rule does not go far enough to safeguard farmers from unfair treatment” More than two years after failing to finalize a set of rules to protect American family farmers and ranchers from anticompetitive and abusive [Read More …]

Shamrock Farms And Subway® Restaurants Invite Families To Give Back With Feeding America® And Leighton Meester On National Milk Day This January 11

Shamrock Farms®, Subway® Restaurants and actress and singer-songwriter Leighton Meester are once again joining forces to support Feeding America®, the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States, and to help provide meals for people in need in the [Read More …]

Farm Credit Again Sponsors Dairy Sustainability Summit

More than 600 farmers, policy makers to learn about latest developments to ‘green’ industry California’s dairy industry is responsible for just under one-fifth of all the milk produced in the U.S., contributes $65 [Read More …]

Two Join Vytelle as Regional Sales Managers

Vytelle™ announces the hiring of two experienced professionals to support sales of Vytelle’s in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology to dairy and beef producers in the central U.S. Nancy Grathwohl Heter and Kody Graves joined the Vytelle sales [Read More …]

2020 Farm Show Cheese Competition winners announced

Winners from Lebanon, Allegheny and Lancaster County Farmer Rudolph’s Creamery of Lebanon, Lebanon County, won Best in Show with its cheese, Sir Farmer, during the cheese competition on opening day of the 2020 [Read More …]

Perry’s Ice Cream Debuts Updated Look for 2020

As Perry’s Ice Cream Company, Inc., a Great Lakes regional brand and Upstate New York’s #1 ice cream, begins its 102nd year in business, the company is debuting its first brand identity refresh and packaging evolution [Read More …]

Anaerobic Digestion Process Fundamentals and Management Shortcourse

January 13, 2020 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

For Agricultural, Food Processing, Industrial and Municipal Operations January 15 – 16, 2020 | Cornell University | Ithaca, New [Read More …]

Borden Dairy Receives Court Approval of Motions to Continue Business as Usual During Financial Reorganization

Company receives authorization to continue paying employees and critical vendors; next court date scheduled for Jan. 23 Borden, one of America’s favorite dairy companies founded in 1857, announced that it and certain affiliates (collectively, “Borden” or [Read More …]

Dairy Farmers of America forms D.F.A. Ingredients Solutions

Dairy Farmers of America (D.F.A.) has merged its ingredients division, which includes dairy powders, dairy food ingredients, DairiConcepts and Berkshire Dairy, to form D.F.A. Ingredients Solutions. The new entity will provide such ingredients as cheese, [Read More …]

Wolf administration opens final PA Farm Bill Grant Program

Program aims to enhance the long-term health of Pa. family farms Addressing nearly 800 public officials at the Pennsylvania Farm Show today, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding announced the opening of the last grant program made [Read More …]

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2020 Wisconsin Junior Holstein Convention held

More than 400 Holstein members, chaperones, and volunteers were in attendance The annual Wisconsin Junior Holstein Convention was hosted by the Clark County juniors in Stevens Point, Wis., at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Convention [Read More …]

Webinar: Genomics Provides Clues to Fertility

Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council host upcoming webinar, February 28th “Genomics Provides Clues to Fertility” is the subject of the Feb. 28 Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council (DCRC) webinar. It is scheduled for 2 p.m. Central time [Read More …]

CHS Reports $177.9 Million in First Quarter Net Income

CHS Inc. (NASDAQ: CHSCP), the nation’s leading agribusiness cooperative, today reported net income of $177.9 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2020 that ended Nov. 30, 2019. This compares to net income of [Read More …]

DFA Cares Foundation provided dairy for those in need

January 10, 2020 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Cooperative delivered six truckloads of milk Through its DFA Cares Foundation, Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a national cooperative owned by dairy farm families across the U.S., is making good use of Northeast Area milk [Read More …]

China and MFP Tranche 3

To assist farmers and ranchers who have lost markets due to retaliatory tariffs, the Trump administration issued two rounds of Market Facilitation Program payments (Trade Aid Round One: A State Perspective and USDA Announces Details Behind the [Read More …]

The California Food Expo Which Ignited A Food Movement Dissolves Operations

The Board of Directors of the California Food Expo (formerly the Fresno Food Expo) announced today that they have elected to dissolve the 501 (c) (6) organization and close its operations effective January 31, 2020, [Read More …]

Alltech to reveal results of ninth annual Alltech Global Feed Survey

Join Dr. Mark Lyons, president and CEO of Alltech, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. EST as he shares the results of the ninth annual Alltech Global Feed Survey during a panel discussion with industry [Read More …]

Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship hosts online courses

Will open courses to the general public beginning Spring Semester 2020 Managed Grazing Innovation Center (MGIC), an online school created by Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship (DGA), will open courses to the general public beginning Spring Semester [Read More …]

CDFA announces vacancies on feed inspection board

Board makes regulatory and enforcement recommendations to the CDFA secretary The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Feed, Fertilizer and Livestock Drugs Regulatory Services (FFLDRS) branch announces three vacancies on the Feed Inspection Advisory [Read More …]

DCRC webinar focuses on genomics and fertility

“Genomics Provides Clues to Fertility” is the subject of the Feb. 28 Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council (DCRC) webinar. It is scheduled for 2 p.m. Central time and features Joseph Dalton, a professor in the department of [Read More …]

Is a robotic milking system in your future?

Attend “Our Dairy Future: Robotic Milking Systems Performance and Efficiency Seminar “ According to Dr. Doug Reinemann, UW-Madison milking system specialist and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Associate Dean for Extension and Outreach, over [Read More …]

Another major US dairy seeks bankruptcy