The website Lifehacker offers up a great tip – for creamier, even more delicious macaroni and cheese, cook your pasta in milk! Here’s why. By cooking the pasta in milk, the starches that are released while the pasta cooks then go to thicken up the milk you’re using. That thickened, starchy milk is then the perfect consistency and thickness for … Read More
CWT Export Update
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 17 requests for export assistance from Bongards, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Michigan Milk Producers Association and United Dairymen of Arizona to sell a total of 581 metric tons (1.281 million pounds) of Cheddar, Gouda and Monterey Jack cheese and 449 metric tons (0.989 million pounds) of butter to customers in Asia, Central America, … Read More
DFA Purchase Guida's Milk
Guida’s Milk, Conn., has been sold to Dairy Farmers of America (DFA). Guida’s will still buy more than 75 percent of its raw milk from Connecticut farmers. And Guida-Seibert Dairy Co. Inc., as the company is formally named, will now have access to more capital to expand. All 257 employees will keep their jobs, including the president, Michael Young — … Read More
New DeLaval Opti Blue
Introducing DeLaval Opti Blue™, the dairy industry’s first DDBSA-based pre-dip. Formulated with dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid (DDBSA) and two percent glycerin for teat skin conditioning, DeLaval Opti Blue kills the most common mastitis-causing pathogens in 15 seconds. Lab tests at the DeLaval facility in Kansas City, Mo., showed DeLaval Opti Blue to have a 99.999% kill rate (or log reduction of … Read More
S.D. Squad Wins got milk? Competition
Congratulations to the Dakota Spirit Magnum cheer squad – the winners of the got milk? Be Strong Challenge! The squad is located in Sioux Falls, S.D. So how did the South Dakota Spirit Magnum team become involved in the national competition? “Our coaches came to practice one day and were like, ‘Hey, we have this huge idea about doing this … Read More
Consider this Editorial
Good editorial for all of us to consider: “A knee-jerk reaction to the Chipotle commercial; Think before you hit ‘send’” by Kayla Jentz at Dairy Business. A reminder that we have to think differently if we are going to connect with our customers. Source: Dairy Business A certain commercial (Chipotle, cough) aired during the Grammy’s, and if you didn’t see … Read More
Nominations Sought for National Dairy Board
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is asking milk producers and all interested parties to nominate candidates to serve on the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board. Nominations must be submitted by March 16, 2012. The Secretary of Agriculture will appoint 12 individuals from those nominated to succeed members whose terms expired Oct. 31, 2011. The 12 new members will serve … Read More
Henkes Captures Collinsworth Award
Congratulations to Matt Henkes, Luana, Iowa, for being named the 2011 Overall Judi Collinsworth Outstanding Junior Exhibitor Memorial Award recipient! The award is presented annually by Holstein Association USA. As the overall winner, Henkes, the eighth youth to be presented with this honor, will receive a $500 scholarship. “Receiving this award was truly a great honor because I have always … Read More
New Holland Introduces The MegaCutter
It kind of sounds like a Transformers character, MegaCutter. Actually, it’s one of the new products from New Holland that was on the display floor at the 2012 National Farm Machinery Show. Pictured in front of the unit is Jordan Milewski, Marketing Specialist, Hay & Forage Brand Marketing for New Holland. I spoke to him about this new addition to … Read More
Thoughts From an Ag Economist and Dairy Producer
Dr. Dave Kohl is a well-known agricultural economist from Virginia Tech who gives talks around the country and the world about agriculture and global macroeconomics. Besides being an agricultural economist, Dr. Kohl is also a value-added dairy producer with two operations, including Homestead Creamery located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. “We put in a processing plant about 11 years ago … Read More