University of Maine hosted the 10th annual Northeast Regional Dairy Challenge which drew 105 students from nine northeast colleges and two Canadian universities to Waterville, Maine, on November 1-3, 2012. The Northeast Regional Dairy Challenge is an innovative, three-day educational competition designed to prepare students for dairy careers. Working in mixed-university teams of four or five students, participants assessed all … Read More
CWT Export Update
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 25 requests for export assistance from Bongards, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Foremost Farms, Michigan Milk Producers Association, United Dairymen of Arizona, and Upstate Niagara Cooperative/O-AT-KA Milk Products Cooperative to sell 2.784 million pounds (1,263 metric tons) of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, and 4.381 million pounds (1,987 metric tons) of butter, to customers … Read More
Give #FoodThanks This Week
This week marks the third annual AgChat #Foodthanks celebration, a time to reflect on the blessing of all the food choices we have in this nation. Farmers, ranchers, processors, butchers, bakers, chefs, grocers, truckers and more all make it possible for us to have healthy food on plates. Today and tomorrow in particular, AgChat encourages you to show your #Foodthanks … Read More
Census of Agriculture to Survey Producers, including Dairy
This year was a pretty tumultuous one for many dairy producers across the country, especially with the way the drought impacted many operations. The USDA needs to get more information so it knows what’s happening on America’s farms. That’s why the 2012 Census of Agriculture forms will be hitting producers’ mailboxes very soon. “The Census of Agriculture will be dropped … Read More
USDA Sending Out End-of-Year Surveys
It’s been quite a volatile year in the ag sector, especially for dairy producers in many areas hit hard by the drought and subsequent price spikes for feed. To get a handle on what happened and how it affected production (and thus, those depending on row crops), the USDA will soon send out its end-of-year surveys. Cindy caught up with … Read More
Thanksgiving Meal Cost Flat, But Dairy Portion Drops
It might cost you about the same to gobble up your Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner this year as it did last year, but while shoppers will be happy, dairy producers might not be so thankful. “Our meal for 10 people that includes a 16-pound turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberries, relish tray, pumpkin pie… the whole nine yards… this year we think … Read More
Promotional Placemats Available
Looking for a new way to promote the dairy industry? Placemats with informative dairy messages are now available from Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association and Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program. The placemats offer messages about the care dairy farmers provide for their cows, their land and their communities. Child-friendly puzzles and word games are printed on the back of the disposable placemats, which … Read More
Clarke Resigns From WDE
Best wishes to Mark Clarke, General Manager of World Dairy Expo, who has submitted his resignation. Clarke has accepted another management position that will be announced soon. At the time when Clarke took over as leader of World Dairy Expo, it was a well-established dairy industry event. In 2007, the event was drawing 66,000 visitors including 2,100 international guests from … Read More
Dairy Protects Against Cancer
According to Science Daily, milk consumption has been linked to improved health, with decreased risks of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and colon cancer. A group of scientists in Sweden found that lactoferricin4-14 (Lfcin4-14), a milk protein with known health effects, significantly reduces the growth rate of colon cancer cells over time by prolonging the period of the cell cycle before chromosomes … Read More
It's Your Co-Opportunity
The proposed FarmFirst Dairy Cooperative has a new Facebook page, “Your Co-Opportunity,” an online space dedicated to answering questions about the proposed merger. If passed by a membership vote, the merger of the three cooperatives, Family Dairies USA, Manitowoc Milk Producers Cooperative and Milwaukee Cooperative Milk Producers, would create the largest Midwest dairy marketing cooperative. The “Your Co-Opportunity” Facebook page … Read More