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Each farm and breakfast menu is unique, featuring seasonal and local products Hooray! June is National Dairy Month, and Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin is ready to celebrate Wisconsin’s rich dairy industry and long-standing tradition of breakfast on local dairy farms. [Read More …]

Secretary Perdue names FSA administrator

Richard Fordyce to serve as Administrator of the USDA’s Farm Service Agency The Jamie L. Whitten, Federal Building, U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public Domain) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture [Read More …]

Bill to support small cheesemakers, dairy farmers

U.S. Senators introduce the Local Cheese Promotion and Dairy Support Act The Local Cheese Promotion and Dairy Support Act will give entrepreneurial cheese producers the assurances and safety net they need to expand and grow. (U.S. Department [Read More …]

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Market commentary: Daily Dairy Report

Milk & Dairy Markets The CME spot Cheddar markets got off to a strong start, scoring fresh 2018 highs on Monday. Blocks climbed to $1.7025 per pound and barrels reached $1.6525. But they couldn’t hold. Barrels staged a modest [Read More …]

Ireland: Lakeland Dairies first to declare an April milk price

May 12, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Lakeland Dairies has announced its milk price for April supplies – the first of the major processors to do so. It comes after Ornua announced that its Purchase Price Index for April is 100.4 (29.6c/L, [Read More …]

AGCO Corporation Congratulates 2018 Future Farmers of America Scholarship Winners

AGCO Proud to Sponsor 67 Scholarships AGCO Corporation (NYSE:AGCO), a worldwide distributor and manufacturer of agricultural equipment, AGCO Finance and AGCO-affiliated dealerships across the country provided more than $100,000 for 67 scholarships in support of local [Read More …]

Thirty-five students benefit from Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. scholarships

May 12, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Thirty-five students demonstrating community involvement, academic performance and financial need will each receive a scholarship toward their higher education through Hilmar Cheese Company’s sixteenth annual scholarship program. The scholarship program has three categories: children of [Read More …]

Phibro Events and Innovations Expand Dairy Industry Collaboration, Knowledge of DCAD Nutrition

May 12, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

DCAD Think Tank brings together university researchers, dairy health leaders, Phibro experts Prepartum dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) nutrition is essential for optimizing the health and performance of dairy cows. Balancing prepartum DCAD diets for transition [Read More …]

Lee Mielke’s Market Report May 11, 2018

Lee Mielke is a veteran dairy journalist and broadcaster, currently carried in a dozen Ag newspapers nationally. This column is prepared especially for the readers of DairyBusiness. Based in Lynden, Wash., he can be reached [Read More …]

This Week in Dairy Video Interview With Keith Marsh On The New Indiana Ag & Tech School

Joel Hastings of DairyBusiness News interviews Executive Director Keith Marsh about the brand new Indiana Ag & Tech School that will begin classes for students grades 7 – 12 this July. They talk about this [Read More …]

Cut costs by cutting BRD re-treats

When it comes to BRD treatments, it’s usually either do it right or do it twice Repeat BRD treatments can cause more than headaches for beef cattle producers, they can eat into your time. (U.S. [Read More …]

New Yoghurt Plant in Finland Meets Sustainability Goals

The largest dairy in Finland, Valio Ltd, is owned by cooperatives of some 5,800 Finnish dairy farmers. With a mission ‘to create well-being and taste sensations in a responsible way’; reducing product losses and saving energy [Read More …]

Got Too Much Milk? Dairy Dumping Highlights Production Bottlenecks, Northeast Surplus

In yet another sign of the chronic milk glut that’s forced down prices paid to farmers, the federal government has allowed Northeast dairy co-ops to dump milk if they can’t find a market. Nobody likes [Read More …]

CDFA awards $213,349 dairy research grant

Research grant will support study of methane emissions at California dairies Supported by a $250,000 appropriation from the Budget Act of 2017, the research will focus on understanding the differences in methane emissions from large and [Read More …]

Fermented Foods Symposium to Highlight Dairy’s Health Benefits

Featuring research, product opportunities, food safety challenges Midwest Dairy, National Dairy Council and the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) will convene influential industry processors, retailers and students, along with academic experts, at a two-day [Read More …]

Advanced Dairy Nutrition Shortcourse

This shortcourse is designed primarily for experienced nutritionists and allied industry professionals seeking a more in-depth exposure to selected topics of emerging and continued interest relating to dairy cattle nutrition and management. This year’s course [Read More …]

Unified support of California Milk Marketing Order

California Dairies, Inc., Dairy Farmers of America, Land O’Lakes, Inc. announce support Since the very beginning the three cooperatives collaborated to create a potential California Federal Milk Marketing Order as a means of helping the [Read More …]

AWA selects new officer team

The officer team consists of 15 officers The Association of Women in Agriculture (AWA) elected their new leadership for the 2018-2019 academic year on April 8th, 2018. Three additional ladies were also selected by the [Read More …]

FB to offer Dairy Revenue Protection insurance

American Farm Bureau Federation has developed a new risk management insurance product Approved by the Agriculture Department’s Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, “Dairy Revenue Protection” insurance will provide dairy farmers the opportunity to manage risk by [Read More …]

American Agri-Women to meet June 3-7 in Washington D.C.

Leaders of American Agri-Women (AAW) from California across the Midwest, the South and Florida and will gather in Washington, D.C., the week of June 3-7, 2018 for the organization’s annual Washington, D.C. Fly-in. The Twentieth [Read More …]

GEA Milking Intelligence: An illustrated guide to optimal cow milking

Whether you are new to the topic or have years of industry experience, GEA’s recently published book, GEA Milking Intelligence, is your illustrated guide to optimal cow milking. From milk harvest history and milking equipment [Read More …]

New formation of GGI-SPERMEX GmbH

The shareholders of GGI German Genetics International GmbH based in Cloppenburg and of Spermex GmbH based in Ottobrunn made the unanimous decision to merge by means of the formation of a new company at a [Read More …]

Jennifer Blazek named director of UW–Madison Farm and Industry Short Course

May 9, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

The University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) has named Jennifer Blazek as the new director of the college’s Farm and Industry Short Course (FISC), a 16-week educational program that prepares students for careers in [Read More …]

DuPont Nutrition & Health moves to rBST-free source for dairy culture production

Company says decision is in response to consumer preference. DuPont Nutrition & Health has announced that all dairy components for producing cultures will be obtained from recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST)-free sources moving forward. The [Read More …]

Dairies liquidate, close due to low milk prices

May 9, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Prices averaged at $23.26 per 100 pounds in 2014; the average this year is at $14.43 The state saw a drop in 59 licensed dairy farms just over the past five months. (Wikimedia Commons) Worldwide [Read More …]

IDFA, Others Call for Clarity and Time Ahead of PHO Rule Deadline

May 9, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

IDFA and 14 other food and manufacturing associations this week urged Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to provide the food industry with more clarity and time as companies work to comply with FDA’s [Read More …]

Beth Comstock, former vice chair of GE, to take the stage at ONE: The Alltech Ideas Conference

USDA Under Secretary Bill Northey and nationally recognized neurologist Dr. Majid Fotuhi join ONE18’s all-star list of speakers Register at one.alltech.com for the May 20–22 conference in Lexington, Kentucky, USA Former vice chair of General [Read More …]

How to boost spring hay harvest in Northern NY

Winter forage crops contribute to soil conservation and can improve soil quality “Our evaluation showed that winter rye and triticale can be established as winter forage crops planted in a field after corn silage harvest [Read More …]

University of Idaho Students Applaud Weekend at Amino Acid University by Adisseo

Recently more than 20 graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Idaho Department of Animal and Veterinary Science took a weekend-long dive into the science and application of amino acids in dairy rations. Insights [Read More …]

WFU sympathetic toward farmers dropped by Arla