Milk prices at the farm level are expected to be about $6 a hundredweight lower than the record prices in 2014. “That is not going to be fun for producers,” says Joe Horner, University of Missouri Extension agricultural economist. “But it is not as bad as it has been some years in the past.” Horner told the MU Ag Marketing … Read More
December Dairy Market Report
The December issue of the NMPF-DMI Dairy Market Report is out. It advises that domestic commercial use of milk is keeping pace with milk production, but that eroding export volumes are causing total consumption to lag behind production growth. That’s keeping downward pressure on milk prices. The dairy futures outlook for the all-milk price for the first half of 2015 … Read More
NMPF Shares CDC Study on Raw Milk
The National Milk Producers Federation said a new food safety study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presents a powerful argument against efforts to ease restrictions on the sale of raw milk to consumers. According to the study, which will appear in the January 2015 issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the average number of … Read More
The WMMB Link
The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board (WMMB) would like to share their monthly column highlighting a WMMB Board Member and informing Wisconsin dairy producers about what’s happening at WMMB. This inaugural “The WMMB Link” column is written by David Bangart from District 7 and it features a Thanksgiving message. Winter arrived too early for many of us. Shorter days, colder nights … Read More
Sales, Innovation & Customer Trust
The team from Midwest Dairy Association was out in full force for National Association of Farm Broadcasting’s Trade Talk. I spoke with Mike Kruger, Midwest Dairy’s CEO, about current market trends, new partnerships formed to promote milk and how they instill consumer confidence into each and every product they produce. “Things have been going very well for dairy farmers in … Read More
Importance of Responsible Food Animal Production
National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Jim Mulhern yesterday joined the country’s oldest humane animal treatment organization, a top chef and others involved in food production in a discussion about the commitment that farmers are making to proper animal care. Mulhern represented the dairy industry at a Capitol Hill briefing themed “The Humane Table, Celebrating the American Heartland” organized … Read More
Dairy Checkoff News on Fluid Milk
Dairy farmers, through their National Dairy Checkoff, have announced seven new partnerships to ignite innovation in the fluid milk category. Fluid milk sales have been declining for decades and farmers are eager to turn that trend around, with new milk beverages, new packaging, and much more. These new partnerships are the beginning of that turn around. “You know we didn’t … Read More
CWT Aids in Cheese, Butter & Whole Milk Powder Export Sales
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 18 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America, Northwest Dairy Association (Darigold), Michigan Milk Producers Association and Tillamook County Creamery Association to sell 4.985 million pounds (2,261 metric tons) of Cheddar and Gouda cheese, 2.866 million pounds (1,300 metric tons) of butter (82% milkfat) and 17.730 million pounds (8,042 metric tons) of … Read More
DMI Announces Partnerships for Fluid Milk Innovation
Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) today announced seven new partnerships to “ignite fluid milk innovation.” According to DMI, the objective of the partnerships is to meet the growing demands of both foreign and U.S. consumers. The seven partners, supported by DMI which represents America’s dairy farm families and importers, are “committing an unprecedented investment to unlock innovation and put milk back … Read More
CWT Aids Customers in Asia, Middle East & North Africa
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 13 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America, Michigan Milk Producers Association, Tillamook County Creamery Association and Upstate-Niagara/O-AT-KA to sell 5.735 million pounds (2,601 metric tons) of Cheddar cheese, 1,984 million pounds (900 metric tons) of butter (82% milkfat) and 46,297 pounds (21 metric tons) of whole milk powder to customers in … Read More