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The House Agriculture Committee approved a $940 billion farm bill in a 36-10 vote in May.
Nearly 100 amendments were thrown out during the session, many relating to food stamps.
The dairy program was the only commodity which received significant debate as it related to farm subsidies.
In 2000, Dr. Peggy Hsieh’s (Professor & Researcher, Florida State University) research brought to market a commercial test to aid regulators in enforcing a new ban on ruminant meat bone meal in cattle feed.
Now Hsieh says her new research will bring to market a commercial test to enforce a 2009 ban on ruminant central nervous system tissue in cattle feed.
I don’t want this article to make me out to be more important or any more special than any other person who visits your dairy, but I have been invited to quite a few dairies over the past 14 years as a hoof trimmer.
I enjoy seeing what families can accomplish through the dairy business, but I’ve also seen the financial hardship that can result when dairying does not go as planned.
It’s June Dairy Month – a time when our industry does an especially great job of promoting wholesome dairy foods and showcasing dairy farms. Here in Wisconsin, you can attend a “breakfast on the farm” event every weekend without having to travel more than 30 miles.
Milk is milk, but when it comes to what consumers reach for in the dairy case, packaging matters.
Suley Muratoglu, vice president of marketing and product development, Tetra Pak Inc., a food processing and packaging solutions company, says, “Packaging type is determined by both processor needs and consumer needs and trends.
Ellen Malloy and Grant Kessler are sitting down to dinner.
One hundred dinners, to be exact.
Kessler and Malloy are the organizers of the 100 Meal Project. The goal – learning about their food and the people who make that meal possible.
False information in public media about farms and food remains common. As producers make the reach out in their communities, many misconceptions can be avoided.
“Prancing, Dancing Lily” lives on One Dairy Road in Ayrshire, Wisconsin, and soon realizes she is not the bell cow the other cows expect her to be.
She leaves the farm and tries to find her place by traveling the world and trying all sorts of dances, from the kick-line at Rockefeller Center to a ballet in Russia.
Charina and Ryan Dellar of Dellar Dairy in Harrisville, Michigan, were featured as a virtual farm tour during the 2012 World Dairy Expo and were named platinum national dairy quality award winners from National Mastitis Council two years in a row.
