HONORARY RECOGNITION Each year CALS recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to their communities, their chosen career fields, and the citizens of the state and the nation. CALS has three awards: the Honorary Recognition [Read More …]
Trade strategy should focus on long-term security, not short-term emergency aid U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced Aug. 27 the details of the administration’s emergency aid package for farmers affected by the escalating [Read More …]
Trade Aid. Trade mitigation package. Assistance for farmers impacted by unjustified retaliation. No matter what you call it, we can all agree that the agricultural community has been eager to learn exactly how USDA would [Read More …]
Join DeLaval at World Dairy Expo for a special opportunity to see a robotic dairy and a rotary setup on the same, FREE tour. A bus will depart World Dairy Expo at 7 AM and [Read More …]
Australian Dairy Farms Group (ASX: AHF) has made a move to capitalise on increasing domestic demand for premium organic foods with the $1.5 million acquisition of Sydney-based Flahey’s Nutritionals, producer of organic infant formula products including [Read More …]
Canada’s protected supply-managed dairy industry emerged as a major 11th-hour irritant as the Trudeau government returned Tuesday to what could be the final, pivotal round of talks to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement. [Read More …]
“My goal is to challenge everyone to coalesce around the fact that we need beef producers to want this, not just make them use it,” says Chip Kemp, Director of International Genetic Solutions (IGS) and [Read More …]
Paul and Nancy Pyle of Zeeland, Michigan, were selected as the state winning 2018 Michigan Milk Producers Association (MMPA) Outstanding Young Dairy Cooperators (OYDC) by a panel of judges represented by leaders in the Great [Read More …]
McLanahan Corporation is excited to announce the official launch of the Modular SMS12. This system, similar to others manufactured by McLanahan, separates bedding sand from dairy cow manure. The Modular SMS12 utilizes proven equipment for [Read More …]
A trial conducted by Food for Health Ireland (FHI) scientists at University College Dublin (UCD), has found that when Irish full-fat cheddar cheese was consumed by a group of individuals for six weeks, it did not [Read More …]
Farm Credit East recently awarded four scholarships to students involved in the National FFA Organization (Future Farmers of America) to provide financial support for the students’ Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE), a required activity in the [Read More …]
College Aggies Online scholarship competition kicks off next month College students are lining up for the chance to win more than $25,000 in scholarships while advocating for agriculture in the Animal Agriculture Alliance’s 10th annual [Read More …]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced yesterday details of the recently announced trade mitigation assistance for farmers. Of the up to $12 billion publicized last month, today’s U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement provides $6.4 billion in assistance to various agricultural [Read More …]
Unfortunately, there is no single product or solution to create high-quality silage. The forages being harvested right now across North America will soon be feedstuffs. The goal of silage is to preserve the quality and [Read More …]
Two collaborative research and extension teams, which include faculty from Washington State University, University of Idaho, USDA-ARS, University of Florida, University of Missouri, Colorado State University, The Ohio State University, and Cornell will be offering [Read More …]
Yankee Farm Credit members will receive $1.8 million mid-year patronage The Yankee Farm Credit Board of Directors recently approved the distribution of a mid-year patronage dividend of $1.8 million to their more than 1,400 members [Read More …]
Lands in 50 Wisconsin counties are eligible for CREP Farmers whose corn or soybeans are standing in water after this week’s heavy rains in southern Wisconsin might think about enrolling those lands in CREP, says [Read More …]
Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, representing the voice of milk across the Midwest, cheered today’s announcement by President Trump that the United States has reached a free trade deal with Mexico. While full text of [Read More …]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced details of actions the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will take to assist farmers in response to trade damage from unjustified retaliation by foreign nations. President Donald [Read More …]
Nine awards were recently presented to GENEX employees at the cattle genetics cooperative’s Dairy National Marketing and Sales Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “These employees are leaders in what they do and deserve to be recognized [Read More …]
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) member cooperatives accepted nine offers of export assistance from CWT that helped them capture contracts to sell 557,770 pounds (253 metric tons) of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, 119,050 pounds (54 [Read More …]
Retaliatory tariffs by China and Mexico could lower dairy exports by $2.7 billion and depress dairy farmers’ revenues by $16.6 billion over the next several years unless they are rolled back. Moreover, U.S. economic output [Read More …]
A web-based tool to monitor and visualize groundwater storage in Texas Groundwater is an important source for drinking, industry, and irrigated agriculture with the latter being the largest consumer of groundwater resources in Texas. In [Read More …]
Number of U.S. dairy farms, including organic and conventional, fell 4 percent last year Small family operated dairy farms with cows freely grazing on verdant pastures are going out of business as large confined animal [Read More …]
As U.S. dairy farmer crisis continues, Ohio farmers hear what works in Canada Dairy Farmers of Ontario Vice Chairman Murray Sherk will visit Ohio on Aug. 28 to share his perspective on pros and cons [Read More …]
Newly-launched Legion Bio Chem brings a new vision to the micronutrient and biologicals space Legion Bio Chem was recently announced as the newest player in the soil enhancement market. The GroWell Solutions Legion comes to [Read More …]
In Memory – Mike Ley: September 29, 1960 – August 24, 2018 Michael ‘Mike’ Ley – Washington, MO Michael Victor Ley, 57, passed away on Friday, August 24, 2018. Mike was born on September 29, 1960, [Read More …]
The 2018 Dairy Profit Seminar Series at Empire Farm Days, sponsored by DairyBusiness, featured a presentation by Dairy One on the theme of getting more value from DHI records – Data to Dollars. The value [Read More …]
Local officials, community leaders, educators, neighbors… YOU ARE INVITED Meetings are FREE to attend Discover how agriculture and community members can thrive and grow stronger as we combine resources and work together. This free event is [Read More …]
IDF World Dairy Summit 2018 focuses on Antimicrobial Resistance Eradicating Mycoplasma bovis from New Zealand, where the disease is not endemic, has posed a challenge for dairy farmers since its outbreak in July 2017. The [Read More …]
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