Here’s a nice Associated Press article about dairy farmers facing dwindling numbers in highly populated areas are putting a fresh face on milk marketing. It’s tough to be a dairy farmer right now. Business costs are soaring and wholesale milk prices are low. It can be even tougher to raise cows on prime real estate in the mid-Hudson Valley, where … Read More
Show and Tell
Dairy producers, through their check-off investment, are once again teaming up with the National Football League® (NFL) to promote 3-A-Day(tm) of Dairy at retail stores and schools across the nation. These promotions help increase demand for and sales of U.S.-produced dairy products and ingredients. Locally, Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association teamed up with regional supermarket chains and NFL teams to promote 3-A-Day(tm) … Read More
Dairyline Markets in Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review The cash dairy market continued its roller coaster performance the week of November 6, this time on the upswing. Block cheese dropped to $1.29 on Monday but then recovered and closed Friday at a year high $1.40 per pound, up 8 1/4-cents on the week, and 3 cents above that week a year ago. Barrel … Read More
Dairy Success in Meeting "Unmet Demand"
About 1,000 dairy industry representatives got an update on activites funded by the national dairy checkoff program last week at the 2006 National Dairy Board/United Dairy Industry Association/National Milk Producers Federation Joint Annual Meeting in Las Vegas. Tom Gallagher, chief executive officer of Dairy Management Inc., told the group that dairy promotion is helping the entire industry convert unmet demand … Read More
DBA Gets Loos This Month
Wisconsin’s Dairy Business Association is gearing up for the Seventh Annual Dairy Business Association Business Conference coming up November 29 and 30 at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisc. On the program for day one is “popular radio broadcaster, well-known advocate for agriculture and friend of the DBA” Trent Loos who will share “the insight he uncovered through a series … Read More
Preserving a Legacy
Dairy producers and other farmers are looking into the future and taking steps to make sure their land is protected. Two farms situated on more than 1,400 acres combined in Tompkins County, New York, recently received grants for $1.8 million from the NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets Farmland Protection Implementation Program (FPIG). Considering only 22 farms received funding from … Read More
Shifting the Blame for Milk Butterfat Depression
Conventional wisdom has linked milk butterfat depression mostly to low fiber content. Theories on what creates this problem are now shifting, says Dr. Bill Mahanna, coordinator of global nutritional sciences for Pioneer Hi-Bred. Studies indicate that as a result of higher-energy silage corn rations, trans-fatty acids from oils in forages and grains may account for much of this depression. The … Read More
Voting Cats and Dogs
According to this recent story in the Wall Street Journal, the Humane Society of the United States is now using it’s “paws” to elect candidates to Congress who support its animal-welfare agenda. This movement is something that everyone in the agricultural industry should be aware of – the Humane Society isn’t choosing one party over another, rather endorsing the candidate … Read More
Johanns at NMPF
As promised, here are the comments of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns to the National Milk Producers Federation 90th annual meeting in Las Vegas last week. Just came out today from the USDA – link to remarks. Johanns concentrated much of his remarks on trade and the 2007 farm bill, highlighting his upbringing on a Nebraska dairy farm. Regarding some of … Read More
Coast to Coast
How do two Californians end up in Upstate New York making cheese? It all starts with a vacation home in the Adirondacks, and a love of good cheese. Anthony Leiker, a licensed registered nurse and Craig Shaffer, a licensed attorney bought the Adirondack Cheese Company Inc. in May of this year and are now full-time cheese makers! Adirondack Cheese Company … Read More