Articles Tagged with ''legacy''

Alltech builds Optigen production plant in New Mexico

July 18, 2011
Due to increasing demand, global animal health and nutrition company Alltech has started construction on its 32nd production facility globally, and ninth North American in one of its fastest growing regions in the U.S. The new site will call Clovis, New Mexico, home and will be the fifth of its kind to produce one of Alltech’s emerging technologies, Optigen. Optigen, a non-protein nitrogen source originally developed by Cornell University and then later purchased from Agway, has found a niche in today’s volatile dairy market.
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Midwest Dairy awards Ozarks Division scholarships

July 18, 2011
Midwest Dairy Association has announced the six Ozarks Division winners of the Midwest Dairy Educational Award, a $500 scholarship for college expenses. “The Midwest Dairy Association’s Educational Award supports our local dairy farmers by helping them to fund the higher education of their children in whatever field of study they pursue,” said John Howerton, Berryville, Arkansas, chair of Midwest Dairy’s Ozarks Division board.
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Meyer crowned 2011 Western Illinois Dairy Princess

July 18, 2011
Torri Meyer, Liberty, Illinois, was crowned the 2011 Western Illinois Dairy Princess on June 30 at the Western Illinois Dairy Council’s promotion banquet in Paloma, Illinois. Meyer, daughter of Marvin and Brenda Meyer, was crowned by outgoing princess Kari Barry of Liberty. The banquet also honored Randy and Debbie Rossmiller with the Heritage Farm Award. The Rossmiller family has been hauling milk since 1951, when Randy’s dad bought his first axle truck to haul milk in 10-gallon cans. Rossmiller Milk Service now has 13 employees and 12 trucks ranging from 4,300 to 6,500 gallons. The company serves 72 Grade A producers in three states.
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Farms Technology announces mobile trading app for dynamic pricing platform

July 18, 2011
Farms Technology, L.L.C., announced a mobile trading technology application for their enhanced electronic grain marketing program, providing even more flexibility for the buying and selling of corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum. DPP (Dynamic Pricing Platform) grain desk helps sellers of grain commodities make, manage and monitor offers. As an extension of this online system, the new mobile app, which is available on iPhone and Android smart phone systems, is the latest innovation in the grain commodities trading market designed to connect sellers with their preferred buyer.
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Pennsylvania soybean checkoff board awards $110,108 for research and education projects

July 18, 2011
A number of research and education projects designed to provide reliable data to soybean growers, expand markets for soybeans and educate the public have been awarded checkoff grants by the Pennsylvania Soybean Promotion Board. In addition, the Board also awarded grants for research benefiting animal agriculture, the largest domestic user of soymeal and the largest sector of Pennsylvania’s agricultural industry.
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Rains just a drop in the bucket against drought

July 18, 2011
For months, it's been so hot and dry in Louisiana that the 125 cows and 80 heifers at Forrest Hill Dairy were getting a mid-day misting to cool them down. With their usual Kentwood pastures bare dirt, they've been eating baled grasses that Cathy Forrest had planned for winter hay. Even with the noontime break, the cows are too hot to eat as much as usual so milk production is down.
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Catastrophic failure by next issue?

July 15, 2011
Walt Cooley
By the time you receive this July 21 issue of the magazine, Congress and the President will be at a make-or-break moment on a bargain to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default on American debt, which some say would be “catastrophic.”
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Dean Foods reaches settlement with farmers

July 15, 2011
Dean Foods Co., one of the largest dairy distributors in the United States, says it has agreed to pay $140 million to settle a lawsuit over pricing with a group of dairy farmers in the Southeast.
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