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California milk producers have modified an eyebrow-raising advertising campaign that promoted their product to men as a way to lessen the effects of premenstrual syndrome in their wives or girlfriends. But some critics wonder if it's time the dairy organization moved on to greener pastures.
While the benefits of calcium to women are widely accepted, the over-the-top publicity campaign featuring harried-looking men, color-coded PMS meters and "video apology enhancers" may be doing the industry in the nation's top milk-producing state more harm than good.
The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) has released updated results from a raw milk survey.
NASDA conducted a raw milk survey, in cooperation with the National Association of Dairy Regulatory Officials (NADRO), to gather current information about the regulation and sale of raw milk in the United States. Raw milk is defined as milk that has not been pasteurized.
The term “brassica” covers turnip, kale, forage rape and swede. Brassicas are cool-season annuals that have high proteins (15 percent to 20 percent crude protein) and digestibility (65 percent to 80 percent).
Typically forage producers refer to the two establishment periods for forage crops as spring and fall. Actually the second period is mid-to- late summer, not fall.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY – The quantity of beef available to consumers in the U.S. has declined a startling amount in recent years and that trend is going to continue. The declining supplies are related to continuing liquidation of the cow herd in the past few years due to high feed prices, a weak U.S. dollar that is spurring beef exports, and of course drought in the southwest and southeast. Declining supplies will support prices across the cattle complex at new record highs in 2011 and again in 2012. Unfortunately, even higher retail beef prices can be expected for consumers.
To help educate impoverished families in the U.S. about how to farm successfully, and to promote self-sufficiency and fight hunger, Pfizer Animal Health has made a $65,000 contribution to Heifer International – world renowned for its efforts to end poverty and protect the environment.
Merck Animal Health, formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, announced that it has embarked on the expansion of a vaccine manufacturing unit at its Biosciences Center Boxmeer campus in the Netherlands. The $18 million investment will result in a doubling of the capacity of its Tissue Culture Department, one of the departments where antigens for viral and parasitological vaccines are manufactured for international markets.
The new facility, which is scheduled to be fully operational by early 2013, has been designed to operate with optimal efficiency as well as to meet current and future requirements with respect to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Safety, Health and Environment (SHE). It will also allow for the anticipated globally growing demand for veterinary vaccines. In addition, the increase of the manufacturing capacity that will be realized anticipates for large-scale emergency production of veterinary vaccines when extensive amounts are needed within a short time period such as during outbreaks of emerging diseases.
Reminder to all cattle farmers, ranchers and importers: All beef checkoff meetings are open to every person who pays the checkoff. During the upcoming 2012 Cattle Industry Summer Conference in Orlando, Florida, these meetings include meetings of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB); Federation of State Beef Councils (Federation) and joint checkoff program/policy committee meetings. We've made it easy for those interested to participate.
Through a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Mike VandeHaar, animal science professor and Michigan State University (MSU) AgBioResearch faculty member, and his fellow MSU researchers have set goals to increase the efficiency and sustainability of milk production by:
• Educating future leaders, voters and consumers about key practices in dairy husbandry that promote feed efficiency and sustainability.
• Developing a feed-efficiency database on 8,000 genomically characterized Holstein cows.
Graduate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Editorial Intern with Progressive Publishing
Based in Jerome, Idaho
Background
Q. In what area did you pursue a degree?
I have a bachelor of science in agricultural and environmental communications and education.
Q. What is your agricultural background?
I went to the Chicago high school for the Agricultural Sciences and learned to appreciate agriculture and enjoyed it. I continued my agricultural education at the University of Illinois and stuck with it throughout my four years at the university.
