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Holstein Canada is a proud supporter of various youth activities and events across Canada.
“Our dairy youth represent our future and it is very important that we support them and invest in activities that will develop them as leaders,” comments Robert Chabot, Holstein Canada Board representative on the Young Adult Advisory Committee.
Years of drought are reshaping the U.S. beef industry with feedlots and a major meatpacking plant closing because there are too few cattle left in the United States to support them.
Roberts Dairy in Omaha, Nebraska, is expanding its facilities to make room for new products, according to an article in the Omaha World-Herald.
The dairy is expanding bottling facilities for the addition of plastic half pint and pint lines, which it started making in November. Completion of the expansion is expected by late spring 2013.
When bovine TB was found in West Texas in 2001, the Legislature banned dairy farming permits in El Paso County and part of Hudspeth County.
Now, a lawmaker wants to repeal the ban.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following comments about notification received Feb. 20 from the Scientific Commission for the World Organization for Animal Health recommending that the United States' risk classification for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) be upgraded to negligible risk:
"This is a significant achievement for the U.S., American beef producers and businesses, and federal and state partners who work in coordination to maintain a system of three interlocking safeguards against BSE that protect our public and animal health.
Nearly four years ago, IDFA and the National Milk Producers Federation filed a citizen's petition with the Food and Drug Administration requesting a modification of the standards for milk and other dairy products to allow the use of non-nutritive sweeteners.
Last week, the FDA published the petition in the Federal Register along with the agency's request for public comment.
If the Henry C. Gardiner Scholarships applicants are indicative of the beef industry leadership in the future, we are in good hands.
Twenty-one applicants were received and six finalists were interviewed for 2013-2014 scholarships.
Tyler Schultz of Haviland, Kansas, and Jared Wynn of Ashland, Ohio, have been awarded Henry C. Gardiner Scholarships for 2013-2014.
The 2013 National Holstein Convention, scheduled for April 10-13, offers a new schedule and one-of-a kind features to engage the Holstein Canada members who travel from across Canada to gather for the annual convention.
In a CTV interview, one producer from New Brunswick stated that the Canadian Dairy XPO was like “the dairy industry on steroids” and that he had “never seen the likes of this, here in Canada.”
“That producer statement fits the original vision of CDX,” states expo Founder & GM Jordon Underhill.
Harvesting corn as Shredlage is so new that there hasn’t been time for a lot of research to be conducted. Randy Shaver, with the University of Wisconsin – Madison, has done a few trials but said, “We’re going to learn a lot more from school of hard knocks.”
