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Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese took home First Place/Blue Ribbon honors in the 2018 Dodge County Fair Cheese Judging for its Mascarpone Cheese and its Marinated Fresh Mozzarella Balls. In addition, the Marinated Fresh Mozzarella received [Read More …]

Legend Seeds Transitions from Family Owned to Employee Owned

A focus on certainty and stability during changing times in the seed industry. Legend Seeds proudly announces its transition from a family-owned independent regional seed leader, to an employee-owned independent regional seed leader through an Employee [Read More …]

Dairy Farmers of America Helping Drive Ag Technology and Dairy Product Innovation

Application Process Opens for 2019 Corporate Accelerator Program Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a national cooperative owned by family farmers across the U.S., is focused on helping bring innovation to the farm and the dairy case. Today, [Read More …]

Paul Rogers Jr., former Virginia Tech Board of Visitors member, named Virginia Farmer of the Year

Paul Rogers Jr., of Wakefield, Virginia — a former member of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors and strong supporter of the university’s agricultural technology program — has been selected as state winner of the Swisher [Read More …]

Missouri Response to drought: Emergency haying & water availability.

Yesterday, in response to worsening drought conditions throughout the state, Governor Parson announced the availability of water for family farms at 28 Department of Conservation areas and five Department of Natural Resources state parks. Governor Parson [Read More …]

New York State Fair 2018 butter sculpture revealed

This year’s New York State Fair butter sculpture has been revealed. The sculpture, which pays tribute to New York dairy farmers, is entitled “Your Milk Comes From A Good Place” and depicts a farmer delivering [Read More …]

AFBF coalition fights to stop illegal WOTUS Rule

After court decision, 2015 WOTUS Rule is now the law of the land in the 26 states The American Farm Bureau Federation and a broad coalition of business organizations have notified the federal district court [Read More …]

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Checkoff-Funded Research Centers Provide Pipeline of Future Workforce

Graduates fill farming, processing, food safety jobs in dairy industry The National Dairy Foods Research Center program helps drive innovation in dairy products and the latest best practices, thanks to support from the dairy checkoff. [Read More …]

CFI Welcomes New Leaders and Broad Perspectives on 2018-2019 Board

The Center for Food Integrity (CFI) welcomes a new slate of board members and officers that reflects the diversity of CFI’s broad membership across the food and agriculture industries. Doyle Karr, director of biotechnology public [Read More …]

CWT Assists with 533,519 Pounds of Cheese, Butter, Whole Milk Powder Export Sales

Member cooperatives with Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted five offers of export assistance from the program that helped capture contracts to sell 101,413 pounds (46 metric tons) of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses, 220,462 pounds [Read More …]

NDDB Sends Ready-To-Drink Sterile Milk Packs to Kerala Flood Victims

The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has joined hands with the Kerala Government and dairy cooperatives in the state to provide relief to the flood-affected people. Relief materials worth Rs 2 crore would be [Read More …]

Four Considerations for an Optimal Fresh Chopped Corn Harvest

Hitting the outlined targets for harvesting corn intended for silage can offer dividends through exceptional feed over the next year. Midwestern corn intended for silage appears to be popping tassels at a fast and furious [Read More …]

Fiber to Take Center Stage at AB Vista’s Cornell Nutrition Conference Symposium

The latest nutritional and technological strategies for optimizing fiber utilization in dairy herds will be showcased at AB Vista’s post-conference symposium, set to round off the Cornell Nutrition Conference on 18th October 2018 in New [Read More …]

Productivity, profitability focus of upcoming school

Increasing productivity, profitability focus of upcoming regenerative farming, ranching school Increasing farm and ranch profitability by transforming dirt into soil will be the focus a three-day Soil Health Academy school, Nov. 13-15 at the Chico [Read More …]

Allflex Acquires German Technology Company Agrident

Allflex, part of the Antelliq Group, has announced that it has acquired Agrident, the German-based agricultural technology company specialising in RFID data capture systems used in process control and animal management systems worldwide. Agrident was [Read More …]

Managing farmland drainage Sept. 13

Workshop focuses on issues faced by women landowners dealing with drainage Iowa State University Extension and Outreach has scheduled a workshop geared toward women landowners as an opportunity to discuss drainage issues that exist on [Read More …]

Teams are pivotal to farm success

Assemble a team and set up a meeting “Together Everyone Achieves More.” “Teamwork makes the dream work.” There are probably a dozen more adages I could include here about the importance of teams. Teams go [Read More …]

Manure testing and utilization

AgSource Labs in Bonduel, Wis. is already starting to receive manure samples As crops continue to mature across the Midwest, farmers are thinking ahead to when they will be able to get those crops harvested [Read More …]

10 things to know about Dairy Revenue Protection

RMA recently announced a new insurance product, Dairy Revenue Protection (Dairy-RP) There are many options for dairy farms to manage milk price, feed price, and production risk. RMA recently announced a new insurance product, Dairy [Read More …]

4R Certification Program Launches in New York

With the first substantial rain in weeks pounding on the barn’s tin roof and water pooling under the doors like a spring creek rising, Dale Bartholomew of Growmark FS announced August 8 at Empire Farm [Read More …]

Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge Offers $145K in Startup Funds for Entrepreneurs

The American Farm Bureau Federation, in partnership with Farm Credit, today opened online applications for its 2019 Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge. Entrepreneurs will compete for $145,000 in startup funds. The competition provides an opportunity for individuals [Read More …]

Cool, calm cows produce more meat, dairy

With cattle, a cooler body helps with meat & dairy production, new UF research shows Cattle are a little like humans: They are more productive when they are cooler. With cattle, a cooler body helps [Read More …]

USDA announces Fresh Fluid Milk Purchase Program

USDA will purchase fluid milk: whole, 2 percent, 1 percent, and skim in half gallons Editor’s note: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it will purchase fluid milk for distribution under The Emergency Food Assistance Program. [Read More …]

Farm Aid to air on TV, radio, internet

Sold-out music, food & farm festival will air on AXS TV, SiriusXM Radio, FarmAid.org Farm Aid board artists Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young. (Photo © Marc Hauser; Courtesy FarmAid) Farm Aid [Read More …]

Farmer to farmer tour Aug. 22