Twenty dairy cows decorated by Australian school children will be on display September 21 through October 1 at the Royal Melbourne Show. The cows are part of Dairy Australia’s ‘Decorate a Cow’ competition. The competition was open to primary schools across Victoria and 20 schools were chosen from scores of entries to receive a blank cow from Dairy Australia to … Read More
Grand Champion Ice Cream
Louis Trauth Dairy, Newport, KY was selected as the Grade A & Ice Cream Grand Champion of the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest. Wisconsin Dairy Products Association sponsored this year’s competition and Executive Director Brad Lagreid said entries were up 50 percent from last year. “Considering it’s only the fourth year for this contest, the quantity and quality … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review The dairy market relapsed in the shortened Labor Day week. Block cheese closed Friday at $1.30 per pound, down 4 3/4-cents on the week, and 23 cents below that week a year ago. Barrel closed at $1.2650, also down 4 3/4-cents on the week, and 22 1/2-cents below a year ago. Eighteen cars of block … Read More
Suit Dismissed
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has dismissed a lawsuit against various dairy branded manufacturers filed by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. PCRM is an anti-meat, anti-dairy group whose campaigns and views are closely aligned with the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The court found that PCRM’s request for warning labels … Read More
Grand Champion Winner
Alto Dairy Cooperative in Waupun, WI was selected as the Cheese and Butter Grand Champion of the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest. This year’s contest, sponsored by the Wisconsin Dairy Products Association, received a record number of 332 entries for cheese, butter, fluid milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, ice cream, sour cream, sherbet, buttermilk, sour cream dips, whipping cream, … Read More
Drive-In For Single Serve Milk
Dairy producers, through their checkoff investment, are teaming up with SONIC, America’s Drive-In® to introduce new milk offerings at the chain. Starting this month, SONIC is offering low-fat (1 percent) white and chocolate milk in resealable, 8-ounce plastic bottles. According to the Midwest Dairy Association, the bottle label will include the 3-A-Day™ of Dairy logo, which is part of a … Read More
World Dairy Innovators
Dairy Australia has announced the opening of a “new centre designed to place the Australian dairy industry at the forefront of world dairying innovation and thinking.” Dairy Australia managing director Mike Ginnivan said the new centre would replace the existing manufacturing sector centres and that it was the most exciting collaborative initiative for the sector in more than a decade. … Read More
YDLI Class Reunion At World Dairy Expo
I guess my 30-year high school reunion which takes place at the end of the week of World Dairy Expo won’t be the only reunion taking place that week. Monsanto will be sponsoring a Young Dairy Leaders Institute reunion at Expo on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 starting at 1:00 p.m. The event is open to all past YDLI class members, YDLI class nominees and anyone interested in attending. The Holstein Foundation made the announcement.
BuySellCows.com
I don’t really have much information on this website. However, they did email me and ask for a link to them on our website. I haven’t really developed a links resource yet but I can do a post.
2nd Quarter Import Watch
Here’s one of Jim Tillison’s first projects to oversee at the NMPF. It’s their quarterly “Import Watch” report. The second quarter report is now out.