PLAN TO ATTEND, REGISTER TODAY! Summer 1-29 Moo University Dairy Tour August 3rd, 2018 “Treat Me Right” Implementing Best Management Practices Now is your chance to gain valuable training for you and your employees. The upcoming I-29 Moo [Read More …]
Searching and sorting dairy bulls from across the industry just got easier with the release of a new app from GENEX. The GENEX Dairy Bull Search app – available for iOS, Android and Windows devices [Read More …]
Making Connections is the theme and purpose for the third Feed & Grain LIVE, scheduled for January 8, 9 and 10 at Prairie Meadows Casino Hotel in Altoona, Iowa. The educational event is tailor-made for [Read More …]
Data from the 2017 Census of Agriculture is planned to be released in February 2019 The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) ends all data collection for the 2017 Census of [Read More …]
U.S. remains embroiled in major trade disputes with China and other trading partners President Donald Trump and European leaders pulled back from the brink of a trade war over autos Wednesday and agreed to open [Read More …]
$155 Million in Program Payments Through May Driven by improvements made by Congress in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 and USDA’s efforts to inform dairy farmers about the enhanced program, as of early July [Read More …]
Fourth generation dairy producer Tony Lopes of Gustine and third generation producer Jeremiah Tiemersma of Visalia have been selected to serve as international interns in a new program from the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB), [Read More …]
Training videos feature former farm kids, insurance experts The farm-ag underwriters at SECURA Insurance know their ways around a tractor. In two new safety training videos, former farm kids turned insurance experts share tractor safety [Read More …]
Dairy foods and drinks should be an integral part of a new federal effort to promote public health through improved nutrition, a group representing dairy farmers across the Midwest told the U.S. Food and Drug [Read More …]
Alfalfa and forage consultant Tom Kilcer of Advanced Ag Systems to speak Aug. 7th The Empire Farm Days special events lineup includes a program by alfalfa and forage consultant Tom Kilcer of Advanced Ag Systems, [Read More …]
Elver Hodges introduced improved forages and management techniques for pastures Elver Hodges, who started working at the University of Florida Range Cattle Research and Education Center just before the U.S. entered World War II, plans [Read More …]
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig issued the following statement on President Trump’s announcement of federal aid to agricultural producers. The Trump administration on Tuesday announced up to $12 billion in emergency relief for farmers. [Read More …]
USDA will also buy surplus of commodities that would otherwise have been exported Many farmers remain critical of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the damage done to commodity prices and markets but were appreciative Tuesday [Read More …]
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is accepting Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) applications as part of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) efforts supported by the Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture (OPJV) – [Read More …]
Today, American Farmland Trust, the organization behind the national movement No Farms No Food®, was awarded a highly competitive 2018 Conservation Innovation Grant from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. Authorized by the 2002 Farm Bill, CIG [Read More …]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must enforce standards of identity for dairy products because these federal definitions are critical to safeguarding consumers from making purchases of products whose labels are false and misleading, [Read More …]
Investment Will Help Drive Innovation in the Dairy Case In an effort to drive demand for dairy and support industry growth, Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a national cooperative owned by dairy farm families, is [Read More …]
A farmworker-driven agreement that Ben & Jerry’s signed last year to improve pay and working conditions of laborers on farms that provide the ice cream company milk has been successful, with 72 Northeast farms enrolled [Read More …]
The annual Cornell Nutrition Conference is designed to provide industry leading research and information to feed industry professionals and nutritional consultants. Emerging topics across the spectrum of animal nutrition are presented by industry leading academics [Read More …]
Application deadline is December 1, 2018; funds awarded at meeting in March 2019 The AJCC Research Foundation has issued a request for research proposals to be funded in 2019 addressing significant issues for the Jersey [Read More …]
Joel Hastings of DairyBusiness News interviews Steven Rowe of Newtrient LLC. Stimulating new technologies in manure management is what Newtrient LLC is all about. CEO Steven Rowe explains how this joint venture by leading dairy [Read More …]
Event to feature the importance of improving the health of soil In the middle of the growing season, Farmers of the Sugar River are hosting a field day on Tuesday, August 21st to show the [Read More …]
Conference to address challenges facing animal production Make plans now to attend the 79th Minnesota Nutrition Conference at Verizon Center in Mankato, Minnesota, on September 19 and 20, 2018. An outstanding group of internationally recognized [Read More …]
The Land O’Lakes, Inc. Board of Directors announced today its selection of Beth Ford as President and CEO of one of the nation’s largest food and agricultural cooperatives and #216 on the Fortune 500. Ford [Read More …]
“We are pleased to see that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally recognized the need to increase its scrutiny of plant-based products imitating standardized dairy foods. “The statement released earlier today by [Read More …]
Registration is now open for the American Feed Industry Association’s Equipment Manufacturers Conference, being held Nov. 7-9 in San Antonio, Texas. Hosted by AFIA’s Equipment Manufacturers Committee, this annual conference brings together equipment designers, manufacturers [Read More …]
Research papers highlight latest milk quality, udder health research The National Mastitis Council (NMC) is now accepting manuscripts for its 2019 Technology Transfer Session (TTS). Manuscripts will be accepted through Sept. 30. TTS will be [Read More …]
This list has been retweeted so many times (146), we decided to turn it into an infographic. A June 7 article on this blog included a list of facts about U.S. dairy exports to Mexico. On June [Read More …]
As a presidential candidate and throughout his 18-plus months in office, President Trump has committed his administration to reducing the U.S. trade deficit in goods and services. According to the administration, the trade deficit is [Read More …]
Give your cows the environment they need for excellent heat expression Getting cows bred in a timely manner and pregnant at first service is impacted by their ability to show a heat. If cows’ environment [Read More …]
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