Steven Smith with DHI-Provo demonstrated how the Pocket DHI-Plus works with RFID through a video that showed a dairy producer walking alongside his animals and scanning them. As he did that, you could hear what he was hearing in his ear piece, whether to skip the animal, whether it needed to be preg-checked, or was due for injections, or whatever … Read More
Ralphs Supermarket Takes Home Gold
A Kroger Company supermarket, Ralphs, has swept the first place honors at the Los Angeles County Fair in the manufactured dairy products categories. The southern California supermarket took home 96 Gold medals for excellence. Each of the company’s gold medal winning products was rated best in its category for texture, flavor and packaging quality. In addition to the 96 Gold … Read More
Kraft Appoints New Management
Kraft Foods will have a new executive vice president and CFO starting October 1 of this year. Timothy McLevish will succeed James Dollive, who will be retiring after a 29-year career with Kraft. Congrats Timothy! Mr McLevish joins Kraft from Ingersoll-Rand Company, where he has been senior vice president and CFO since 2002. Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft chairman and CEO, said: … Read More
Blue Ribbon Show Comes to Pa.
Dairy producers can learn how to create value-added products on the farm during a unique niche marketing trade show. The ‘Blue Ribbon Cows Making Blue Ribbon Cheese, Ice Cream and More’ event will be held on Sept. 17 from 1- 8 p.m. at the All-American Dairy Show at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg. Find more … Read More
Weighing in on Kernel Vitreousness
Issues on ruminant starch digestibility (STRD) include vitreousness—harder starch—vs. soft, floury endosperm in commercial corn germplasm. As part of a series of Pioneer Forage Forum segments highlighting STRD research, Dr. Bill Mahanna, Pioneer Global Nutritional Sciences Manager, condenses decades of research on this topic. His review includes recent conclusions, with viewpoints on how to identify real-world findings and make practical … Read More
Smith Dairy Goes bST Free
Smith Dairy Products Company, a dairy processing company in Ohio, has announced their decision to produce milk that is bST free. The company also has facilities in Indiana and manufactures a full line of quality dairy, beverage, ice cream, and foodservice products. “The use of rBST on dairy cows is an emotional issue for some consumers,” said Penny Baker, Director … Read More
Starch Digestibility: Concentrate on the Controllable
While ruminant starch digestibility (STRD) is a complex subject, producers’ control can be simplified by addressing basic critical factors: harvest moisture, particle size and length of time in fermentation. Dr. Bill Mahanna, Pioneer Global Nutritional Sciences Manager, offers details, particularly on the influence of moisture and the extent of fermentation in high moisture corn. This is the first in a … Read More
Growers Hold Informational Sessions
The Dairy Calf and Heifer Association (formerly Professional Dairy Heifer Growers Association), has announced five regional profit seminars to be held in June. The sessions are one day only and will feature the latest developments in the dairy calf and heifer raising industry. Register on-site or visit the organization’s website. Featured speakers include Jon Robison of University of California-Davis and … Read More
Upstate Plant Grows
Upstate Niagara Cooperative, of New York, is celebrating the one year anniversary of its cultured dairy products plant, with a nine-percent growth in sales. The new $32.5 million plant, which opened last May, is twice the size of the century-old plant it replaced on Scott Street in Buffalo and it can process twice as much raw milk. It also has … Read More
DFA Close N.M. Cheese Plant
The Dairy Farmers of America Inc. are idling operations at its Lovington, N.M. cheese plant, which has been open since 1995. Production at the plant, which has been jointly owned and operated by DFA and the Greater Southwest Agency, will be transferred to other DFA plants. DFA’s nearest southwestern plants are in El Paso and Schulenburg, Texas. The Lovington plant … Read More