The first ever winners of the BQA Award were announced today and one of them is a dairy producer. Quality. It’s not only a word written in an instruction manual but a responsible action – one must live it and then teach it. That was the underlying theme this week as two producers were honored with the national Beef Quality … Read More
New Olympic Got Milk? Ad
The got milk? folks unveiled a new print ad in this week’s Sports Illustrated that features ten American athletes that will compete in the upcoming Beijing Summer Olympics. The print ad is all about paying tribute to 10 of America’s Olympic hopefuls. And milk, too, of course. As part of its homage to the Games, “Got Milk?” also will unveil … Read More
New Beef Checkoff Site for Producers
As a follow-up to Chuck’s coverage of the Joint Beef & Dairy Information Symposium here at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference, dairy producers should be aware that the Cattlemen’s Beef Board has launched a new website, designed to be the one place to go to find out how national beef checkoff dollars are invested and the results of those investments. … Read More
CWT Accepts Herd Retirement Bids
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has announced tentative plans to accepted 209 bids in its herd retirement program, representing 25,474 cows and 440 million pounds of milk. This latest round of CWT’s milk reduction program should help strengthen farm-level prices for milk at a time when dairy producers are suffering from rising feed and fuel costs, according to CWT officials. Farmers … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review The cash cheese market strengthened this week as it awaited Friday afternoon’s June Milk Production report. Forty pound block closed at $2.00 per pound, up 6 3/4-cents on the week and 15 1/2-cents above a year ago, when the blocks tumbled 11 1/2-cents, to $1.8450. 500-pound barrel closed Friday at $1.97, up a nickel on … Read More
Educating Children About Agriculture
Inspirational speaker and writer, Rebecca Long Chaney, is working on a series of agricultural education books for pre-schoolers and elementary school children. Here she’s seen with her exhibit at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference. The book she’s promoting will be available through her website soon. This first book, which she had for sale, is written from the perspective of her … Read More
Beef Budget and Checkoff Recommendations
CBB’s Chief Executive Officer is Tom Ramey. This morning he made a presentation at the second general session of the Cattle Industry Summer Conference. You can listen to his presentation below. I also interviewed Tom and found out that there are two main issues of special importance to the Beef Checkoff here at this conference. The first one, according to … Read More
Focus on Consumer Perceptions
One of the main dairy groups represented at today’s Joint Beef & Dairy Information Symposium here at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference was Dairy Management Inc. David Pelzer is Senior VP, Industry Image & Relations. DMI is a non-profit organization that manages the Dairy Checkoff. I spoke to him today about dairy and beef producers getting together and discussing common … Read More
Dairy Industry Animal Welfare Program
Earlier this week the National Dairy Board met and like last year, that meeting ended just in time for attendees to meet with beef producers at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference, Joint Beef & Dairy Information Symposium. One of those people is Rob Byrne, Sr. VP Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, National Milk Producers Federation. I spoke with Rob during today’s … Read More
Dairy and Beef Producers Meeting Jointly
It’s Cattle Industry Summer Conference time once again. I’m helping out the Cattlemen’s Beef Board with their Beef Board Meeting.com as I have for several years now. The current Vice Chairman of the CBB is Lucinda Williams. Lucinda is married to a 12th-generation dairy producer and farmer in Hatfield, Mass., on her 220-acre family owned farm, which dates back to … Read More