Favored Inc. has launched a new brand of milk that provides beneficial nutrients through natural means. The products — half-gallon varieties of whole, reduced fat, low fat and fat free milk — provide a natural source of healthful Omega-3 and conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA, nutrients. The products are available at Indiana’s Marsh Supermarkets and participating Big Y World Class … Read More
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Hubbard Launches Distillers Grains Webinar
Hubbard Feeds recently launched a webinar to educate dairy producers on feeding distillers grains to replacement heifers. The webinar is presented by Alvaro Garcia, DVM, MS, PhD, and dairy specialist for South Dakota State University Extension. Topics covered include heifer feeding program objectives, nutritional benchmarks, climate and heifer performance, and using alternative feeds and crop residues in heifer rations. To … Read More
All-American Show Full of Activities
The All-American Dairy Show, set for Sept. 13-18 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg, is proud to be celebrating its 45th anniversary with the theme, a “Celebration of Excellence.” Show entries are due August 15. Late entries will be accepted until August 29 for an additional fee. The kick-off weekend of the show is packed … Read More
Australia Remains Committed to Research
The recent closure of the Australian Kyabram Irrigated Research Institute has promoted the Victorian government to assured Dairy Australia that it will maintain its commitment to dairy research and development. Dairy Australia managing director, Mike Ginnivan, said the challenges facing dairy meant that it was important that all R,D&E be directed in the most effective way, and be subject to … Read More
New Officers Elected at WDPA
There are new officers for the Wisconsin Dairy Products Assn. (WDPA). They were elected at the 2008 Dairy Symposium held July 13-14 in Spring Green, Wis. President, Jim Bleick, Graf Creamery; Vice President, Dennis Donohue, Manitowoc Milk Producers; Treasurer, Deborah Van Dyk, Schreiber Foods; and Secretary, John Breene, AMPI. In addition, two members were newly elected to the Board of … Read More
Dairy Beef Quality Very Important
Want to increase the income of your cull animals? The Dairy Beef Quality Assurance Program can help you identify opportunities for improving the value of market cows and bulls from your operations through management, monitoring and marketing. Quality defects can rob dairy producers of almost $70 per head at market, according to the 1997 National Market Cow and Bull Beef … 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
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
Guernsey Sale Tops Records
Guernsey breeders from across the country gathered in Cross Plains, Wis. in late June for their annual convention and National Guernsey Convention Sale. The Sale set records for the Guernsey breed, with an all-time high sale average of $5,794 on 46 live lots. The sale also included 77 embryos that averaged $645 each. “The demand for registered Guernseys is incredible,” … Read More