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Genetic progress achieved over the years in the Canadian dairy cattle population has been quite impressive. As time passes and the industry progresses, it’s useful to re-evaluate our national index and selection goals to assure we’re still on the right path.
Paced by sustained strong performances by the Japan and Hong Kong markets and a rebound in Mexico, U.S. beef exports in September remained ahead of 2012 levels, according to statistics released by the USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).
Through checkoff, the nation’sdairy farmers and importers have the collective power to innovate, change and grow sales and trust.
That was the message Tom Gallagher, CEO of Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) that manages the dairy checkoff program, gave to nearly 1,000 farmer and industry representatives at the joint annual meeting of the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board, National Milk Producers Federation and United Dairy Industry Association in Phoenix.
The head of the nation’s dairy farmer organization blasted the dairy provisions in the pending House farm bill as costly to taxpayers, a bonanza for processors and not what’s needed to help farmers.
The outcomes of mastitis – lower milk production and reduced quality milk – are affecting the sustainability of the Southeast dairy industry. The Southeast Quality Milk Initiative (SQMI), a USDA-funded project, aims to help dairy farmers throughout the region control mastitis and lower bulk tank SCC through cost-effective control strategies.
Successful dairy farm businesses have the commonality of being “enterprising” in their approach to family and business. Said another way, it is rare to find a successful family business without a foundation of acceptance, challenge, open communications, love and forgiveness.
“Lucky for my cows they all have Norwegian names now,” Marjenna McWilliams says. “I named my most recent calf Ingrid Alexandra.”
McWilliams, the newly crowned 60th anniversary Princess Kay of the Milky Way, has found an interesting way to merge her two passions: cows and the Norwegian language.
McWilliams’s family has been dairying in Minnesota’s Polk County for 101 years and her father has been milking cows himself for 63 years of his life.
It was as a 15-year-old vegetarian growing up in England that Dr. Jude Capper gained her first insight into the activist mindset: That the freedom to choose a food and lifestyle was worth fighting for.
While the Red Hat Society is a popular women’s organization, which is known for its members to wear red hats and purple dresses while meeting for tea or other activities, there is another group of red hat wearers that has been comprised solely of male members – until now.
Hats of different colors signify various responsibilities at the World Championship Cheese Contest held every other year in March. The contest’s 40 judges wear white hats as they core, sniff and taste approximately 2,500 entries.
