USDA

USDA reopens disaster assistance programs

June 5, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

USDA FSA reopening the application period for two disaster assistance programs The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now accepting disaster assistance program applications as of June 4th from agricultural producers who suffered livestock, honeybees, [Read More …]

NMPF Thanks USDA for Extending Margin Protection Program Sign-up Window

June 5, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Organization Welcomes Congressional Support for Giving Dairy Farmers More Time The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) today expressed thanks to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue for his department’s decision to give dairy farmers additional time to [Read More …]

Alltech ONE18: The birthplace of ideas

June 3, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

True to its name, ONE: The Alltech Ideas Conference 2018 kicked off by showcasing some of today’s most innovative ideas, all the way from the gene level to disruptive changes to the future of food and how [Read More …]

News

Dairy Management Dairy Market Report

May 31, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Many of the key dairy market statistics reported for March and April indicated that milk prices for U.S. dairy farmers are on the road to improvement. Among them were a rise in the national average all-milk price [Read More …]

Changes to dairy insurance affecting NY farmers

May 30, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Farmers can enroll no later than June 1st if they have active marketings under LGM Dairy farmers have experienced a multi-year period of low milk prices, complicated in the Northeast by challenges with processing capacity. [Read More …]

USDA, University Study Compares Farmers Using Dealer Financing and Those With Conventional Lender

May 30, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

In a series of recent articles, we show that farmers’ use of implement dealer financing has increased substantially since 2003 (farmdoc daily May 9, 2018). Implement dealers currently provide nearly one-third of the agricultural sector’s [Read More …]

USDA Has a Responsibility to Reveal Crop Yield Forecasting Methods

May 29, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Each and every month, millions of actors across the global agricultural sector wait with bated breath for the latest crop yield forecasts from the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE). WASDE is produced by the US [Read More …]

Margin Protection Program Sign Up – Information you should know

May 29, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Sign up date closes this coming Friday, June 1st. USDA plans to have all their field offices make individualized calls to producers that have not yet signed up on May 30th when the April margin [Read More …]

Organic dairy hosts ‘In Her Boots’ workshop June 21

May 29, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

The number of farms owned and operated by women is on the rise While the number of farms in the U.S. has been on the decline for many years, the number owned and operated by [Read More …]

Lee Mielke’s Market Report May 25

May 25, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

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 …]

Dairy Margin Protection Program Deadline is June 1, 2018

May 25, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Current sign-up information and details can be found at your local FSA Office. The current FSA Dairy MPP factsheet and Dairy decision tool are available by searching Dairy MPP on the USDA Farm Service Agency [Read More …]

Crops & Chemicals USA 18 to Feature Regulatory Updates

May 25, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Speakers include regulators from EPA, FDA, and USDA Federal regulators representing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Federal Drug Administration (FDA) are among the presenters at this year’s Crops [Read More …]

For Some, New MPP Makes Plenty of Cents

May 23, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

In February 2018, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 made several modifications to USDA’s Dairy Margin Protection Program and directed the department to reopen signup for the 2018 coverage year. The modifications made to MPP were designed [Read More …]

Perdue applauds red tape reduction for farmers

May 22, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

“These numbers were designed for billion-dollar government contractors, not everyday farmers” “I’m pleased Congress helped us to achieve one of our regulatory goals of cutting red tape for producers utilizing conservation programs by exempting them [Read More …]

Lee Mielke’s Market Report May 18

May 18, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

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 …]

California: Organic? market? update

May 18, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

There is a lot going on with organic milk in California and despite the high interest for information, there is not a lot of data on organic producer pay prices. Still, USDA’s Dairy Market News provided some [Read More …]

Perdue names Bruce Summers AMS Administrator

May 15, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Bruce Summers named Administrator of the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service AMS administers programs that create domestic and international marketing opportunities for U.S. producers of food, fiber, and specialty crops through voluntary grading, laboratory and quality [Read More …]

Secretary Perdue names FSA administrator

May 14, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

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 …]

News

Market commentary: Daily Dairy Report

May 14, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

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 …]

Unified support of California Milk Marketing Order

May 10, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

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 …]

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

May 8, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

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 …]

NMPF on need for accurate consumer information

May 8, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

NMPF said standard should focus on providing consumers with accurate information Mulhern noted that USDA’s proposed rule adheres to Congress’ statutory determination that meat and milk derived from livestock consuming bioengineered feedstuffs are not subject [Read More …]

USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety selected

May 7, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

President Trump has selected Dr. Mindy Brashears as Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr. Mindy Brashears has been selected to be the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Under Secretary for Food Safety. (U.S. Department of [Read More …]

California Will Transition to Federal Milk Marketing Order

May 5, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

The author, a dairyman in Chino, Calif., is a board member and economics consultant for the Milk Producers Council. This piece appears in the MPC newsletter dated May 4 and is used here with permission. [Read More …]

Lee Mielke’s Market Report May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

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 …]

Perdue announces disaster recovery details

May 3, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

Drought, wildfires and other disasters continue to impact farmers and ranchers “Last year our nation experienced some of the most significant disasters we have seen in decades, some back-to-back, at the most critical time in [Read More …]

Time is Running Out to Complete Census of Ag

April 30, 2018 DairyBusiness News Yoda 0

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is reminding farmers and ranchers that the window is closing on the opportunity to participate in the 2017 Census of Agriculture. To date, NASS [Read More …]

Lee Mielke’s Market Report April 27

April 27, 2018 DairyBusiness News Team DP 0

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 …]

2018 Stakeholder’s Summit is Almost Here

April 26, 2018 DairyBusiness News Yoda 0

Ted McKinney from USDA will join us Thursday afternoon to share “Agriculture’s Roots in Washington.” Ted McKinney serves as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. Under Secretary [Read More …]

In 2018, Milk Production is Higher for Some

April 26, 2018 DairyBusiness News Yoda 0

USDA’s April 20, 2018, Milk Production report indicated U.S. milk production during the first quarter of 2018 was 54.4 billion pounds, up 1.5 percent or 823 million pounds from the first quarter of 2017. On a daily [Read More …]

USDA reopens disaster assistance programs

NMPF Thanks USDA for Extending Margin Protection Program Sign-up Window

Alltech ONE18: The birthplace of ideas

Dairy Management Dairy Market Report

Changes to dairy insurance affecting NY farmers

USDA, University Study Compares Farmers Using Dealer Financing and Those With Conventional Lender

USDA Has a Responsibility to Reveal Crop Yield Forecasting Methods

Margin Protection Program Sign Up – Information you should know

Organic dairy hosts ‘In Her Boots’ workshop June 21

Lee Mielke’s Market Report May 25

Dairy Margin Protection Program Deadline is June 1, 2018

Crops & Chemicals USA 18 to Feature Regulatory Updates

For Some, New MPP Makes Plenty of Cents

Perdue applauds red tape reduction for farmers

Lee Mielke’s Market Report May 18

California: Organic? market? update

Perdue names Bruce Summers AMS Administrator

Secretary Perdue names FSA administrator

Market commentary: Daily Dairy Report

Unified support of California Milk Marketing Order

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

NMPF on need for accurate consumer information

USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety selected

California Will Transition to Federal Milk Marketing Order

Lee Mielke’s Market Report May 4, 2018

Perdue announces disaster recovery details

Time is Running Out to Complete Census of Ag

Lee Mielke’s Market Report April 27

2018 Stakeholder’s Summit is Almost Here

In 2018, Milk Production is Higher for Some

Dietary crude protein: how low can we go thanks to the amino acid balancing concept in dairy cows?

Why Herd Immunity Matters to Your Dairy

What If You Could?

Cover Crops After Corn Silage