It’s sad and infuriating. It’s also inevitable when the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t enforce its own regulations. In a move demanded by no one other than a marketing department desperate to rebrand its product [Read More …]
Friday meetings in Beijing encourage collaborative partnerships as retaliatory tariffs take a toll on U.S. dairy exports. U.S. Dairy Export Council President and CEO Tom Vilsack met Friday with officials from Chinese government and [Read More …]
RFID ear tags speed up data collection and improve animal disease traceability USDA announced their implementation timeline for mandatory electronic animal identification for cattle earlier this year. By January 1, 2023 all dairy cattle will [Read More …]
Recessions and Commodity Prices: Not Necessarily Linked We all remember what happened with dairy prices in the last recession. If you weren’t in the industry back then, ask someone who was, it was a pretty [Read More …]
Meeting will be September 10, at Berks County Agricultural Center Penn State Extension and the USDA Farm Service Agency will be offering an informational meeting for dairy producers on Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 1:00 [Read More …]
Every year the National Dairy Shrine has an annual awards banquet highlighting the past, present and future of the dairy world. Students receive numerous scholarships, current dairy leaders are honored for their success and prominent [Read More …]
John Ellsworth of Success Strategies Recently, it seems like I hear a lot of comments about how people aren’t doing better, either because of the President, some Congressman, some policy or some other factor out [Read More …]
Anthony Raimondo, Esq. of Raimondo and Associates In California, Cal/OSHA has classified dairy as a “high hazard” industry, and nationwide, dairy occupations are among agriculture’s most dangerous. Manure lagoons, equipment, falling hay, and even livestock [Read More …]
Previously, in the June 5, 2019 post to this blog, fluid milk sales trends were reviewed through the first quarter of 2019. Data is now available to review milk sales in the second quarter of 2019. [Read More …]
Vaccines are a vital part of keeping all livestock healthy. Vaccines help in the prevention of disease, which results in less utilization of antibiotics due to fewer sick animals. Vaccines provide protective immunity approximately 21 [Read More …]
The 2019 growing season in New York has again not been “normal.” Wet conditions delayed planting in many areas of the state. Later in the growing season, some areas were dry. On many farms, there [Read More …]
Proper silage harvest management is the key to quality feed all year long. We can’t always control or manage all aspects of harvest but there are several we can. With forage inventories being low this [Read More …]
Meanwhile, last year’s winner licenses concept to major food manufacturer A team of food science students from Utah State University won the 2019 Idaho Milk Processors Association new product competition Aug. 10. They not only earned [Read More …]
The sign-up opportunity for the 2019 Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program ends on September 20, 2019. USDA reports that as of August 11, only 44% of California’s eligible producers have signed up for the DMC [Read More …]
During mastitis treatment, focus on the infection instead of the inflammation The standard practice on dairies has been to treat mastitis until the inflammation is gone, which is why some five-day treatment regimens have become [Read More …]
New Holland, a leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer, will launch The Great New Holland Haytools Giveaway in partnership with media leader Farm Journal at Farm Progress Show. The contest opens on August 27, 2019. [Read More …]
New design offers smooth crop feeding, better windrow formation and simplified service points The Hesston by Massey Ferguson® Model MF1316S RazorEdge™ pull-type disc mower conditioner is built to optimize crop throughput and quality, helping operators cut [Read More …]
AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AGCO), a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment and solutions, continues to invest significantly in FendtTM North America by doubling Fendt dealer locations in the past year while introducing a row crop-friendly tractor and [Read More …]
Lemken, a global manufacturer and supplier of professional crop cultivation implements for strategic tillage, sowing and planting protection, introduces the Heliodor 9 high-speed disc for one-pass tillage and seedbed preparation in a variety of field conditions. With high [Read More …]
IDF has today released a publication that explores pioneering wastewater treatments in dairy processing. Like all wastes produced by production plants, dairy wastewater must be treated before it is discharged into water bodies. Owing to [Read More …]
Protein regained $0.40/lb, and fat advanced $0.03/lb. The price of Other Solids was flat. On a hundred-weight basis, Statistical Uniform Price (3.5% fat) increased $0.55/cwt and Class III price increased $1.28/cwt resulting in PPD decreasing [Read More …]
Time is running out to enter cattle to compete on the legendary colored shavings October 1-5 at World Dairy Expo; entry fees increase on Sunday, September 8 after 11:59 p.m. (CST). Electronic entries will remain [Read More …]
GotDairyJobs.com has fresh data on jobs, tax revenue, GDP, exports and more—all showing how dairy helps drive the economy. A clearinghouse of information managed by three dairy organizations has updated data and new resources that [Read More …]
Two webinars will assist potential collaborators with the application process The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the open period to apply for 2019 funding for the [Read More …]
Dairy industry contributes more than 52,000 jobs and $14.7 billion to economy With the dairy industry contributing more than 52,000 jobs and $14.7 billion to Pennsylvania’s economy each year, the Choose PA Dairy campaign is [Read More …]
Both Scheitler and Johnson will bring significant experience from parallel industries including food and beverage and consumer products Darigold is pleased to announce today the hiring of Richard Scheitler as its new Chief Information Officer, [Read More …]
Limited-edition Banana Taffy, Blueberry Cobbler and Cotton Candy milks available for fairgoers and shoppers in select markets State Fair of Texas® fanatics tasting this year’s new Fair food can look forward to enjoying it with a side of Cotton Candy [Read More …]
Ray Kroc, the entrepreneur behind the McDonald’s Corporation, once said, “I didn’t invent the hamburger. I just took it more seriously than anyone else.” Likewise, John Ellsworth of Success Strategies doesn’t make any claims about [Read More …]
Seminars, farmer panels, demonstrations, and tours supported soil health practices Driving through the countryside of the Finger Lakes in summer, one passes fields of swaying corn, hears the rumble of tractors, while the waft of [Read More …]
Graeter’s Ice Cream Annual Cones for the Cure Campaign Runs September 5th to September 15th Graeter’s Ice Cream, a 150-year-old, family owned craft ice cream company, has partnered once again with The Cure Starts Now in support of finding not just a cure [Read More …]
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