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Walmart U.S. and Sam’s Club U.S. announced today new positions regarding animal welfare and the use of antibiotics in farm animals. The Animal Agriculture Alliance released the following statement, attributable to Kay Johnson Smith, alliance president and CEO.
In the western U.S., ranchers utilize extensive and rugged rangeland pastures. Generally, cattle are reluctant to graze steep slopes, climb high ridges and travel long distances from water.
The University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) recently broke ground on its new veterinary diagnostic center. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc. (BIVI) contributed support for the state-of-the-art facility that will provide improved service to livestock producers and veterinarians throughout the region and the country. It is expected to open by the end of 2017.
I read in the Wall Street Journal that children born today have a good chance of living until they are 150. Just imagine how the obituary page might read then:
I was at a Farm Bureau meeting and scheduled to be on their program. I stepped off the elevator and a dark-haired lady greeted me in the corridor. “Does anybody tell you that you look like Sam Elliot?” she said, “My husband just loves your stuff.
The World Forage Analysis Superbowl, held annually in conjunction with World Dairy Expo, provides forage producers the opportunity to showcase their high-quality forages from across North America.
Farm Equipment magazine reports:
Not too surprisingly, the furor over the ownership of John Deere equipment and software copyrights isn't ready to calm down quite yet.
Baseball. In my family we have two seasons, baseball season and not baseball season. And just because it’s not baseball season doesn’t mean the baseball stops, it just means you need to keep training for baseball season.
Barbara Hanselman Bloomville, New York The Daily Star recently published an article about a change proposed by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. to the current dairy insurance program. New York dairy farmer Barbara Hanselman spoke in favor of Schumer’s proposal, which would have dairy cooperatives pay 75 percent of the premium that farmers would need to pay if they want dairy insurance.
Click here to read The Daily Star article.
The market tone is weak as the U.S. and Europe head into the spring flush. Milk powder and butter prices dropped 15 to 25 percent from mid-March to late April. Whey prices are down nearly 30 percent in the last 14 months. Whey protein concentrate prices are down close to 40 percent in the last year.
