Here’s some good news for dairy farmers New Year: milk prices are starting to rise. The December all-milk price, according to the USDA, is $16.30 per hundredweight. That is up 44 percent from the lows registered this past summer. USDA used the $16.30 figure to compute the milk-feed ratio released in Wednesday’s “Agricultural Prices” report. Here are the all-milk prices … Read More
Largest Cup of Hot Chocolate
From the AP: The American Dairy Association & Dairy Council unveiled a 487-gallon mug of hot chocolate Wednesday in New York City. Officials say they think it’s the world’s largest. Be sure to make your hot chocolate with milk this winter – it’s the best way to enjoy this warm treat! Here is a video of the story from YouTube:
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Cash cheese prices at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ended the year on a down note and corrected the unusually large price spread, but prices are sharply above those a year ago. The block price closed New Year’s Eve at $1.45 per pound, down 11 3/4-cents on the holiday shortened week, but a whopping 31 3/4-cents … Read More
Water Buffalo in Egypt and Feeding DDGS
The Chairman of the Egyptian Buffalo Producer’s Association is Dr. Saad Alhayani (pictured left). He also owns and operates a very new open water buffalo feedlot and dairy. The U.S. Grains Council Corn Mission team I recently traveled with visited. These cute, sweet, little creatures are very different than your average bovine. Dr. Alhayani says he imports frozen semen to … Read More
Dairy Checkoff has Strong 2009
Dairy Management Inc.™ (DMI), who manages the national dairy checkoff, is proud to report that in 2009, partnerships and innovation helped to drive sales for America’s dairy producers. Read on to learn more. Tom Gallagher, chief executive officer for DMI cited these key accomplishments that helped dairy producers and the U.S. dairy industry build sales in 2009 and beyond. · … Read More
New And Old Systems In Egypt
While I was participating in the U.S. Grains Council Corn Mission in Egypt we received another presention on the Cattle Information Center at Cairo University by Dr. Samy Abou-Bakr. He describes that there are two different water buffalo dairy and feedlot systems. One is old and one is new. In the older model, the herd size is small, handled with … Read More
New Yogurt Parfait at Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A will introduce a yogurt parfait, right in time for all of those New Year’s resolutions to eat healthy! The new Yogurt Parfait includes slices of fresh strawberries, covered in creamy, vanilla yogurt topped with either Chick-fil-A’s own Harvest Nut Granola blend or Chocolate Cookie Crumbs. Topped with granola, the Yogurt Parfait has 240 calories and 5 grams of fat, … Read More
Dairy Herd Improvement In Egypt
I had the honor and pleasure to participate in a U.S. Grains Council Corn Mission trip recently. We visited Morocco, Egypt and Jordan to see how efforts to create new markets for corn are going. The dairy industry in these countries played a key role in our meetings and tour stops. I’m going to post some of the stories of … Read More
Merry Christmas!
From all of us here at World Dairy Diary – we wish you a joyful, peaceful and merry Christmas! We hope that each of you is able to spend time with family and friends and reflect on the things that are important to you.
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Block cheese closed the shortened holiday week at $1.5675 per pound, down 13 1/2-cents on the week, but 29 3/4-cents above that week a year ago. Barrel closed Thursday at $1.44, unchanged on the week, 13 1/4-cents above a year ago, and 12 3/4-cents below the blocks. Twenty seven cars of block traded hands on … Read More