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U.S. milk powder producers are adding 440 million pounds of processing capacity over the next 2 years. The most immediate impact of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union surrounds currency rates and their impact on U.S. dairy trade. This and other U.S. dairy industry news can be found here.
Organic dairy products are drawing a substantial price premium. May dairy producer margins were ugly. June California and federal order prices improve. Rabobank sees recovery pushed into 2017. This and other U.S. dairy economic news can be found here.
Dairy farmers have to navigate several risks – environmental, regulatory, animal care and management succession are just a few. But of all the risks dairy producers must manage, price volatility – which has grown more intense over the last decade – should be a top priority.
Holmestead Dairy of Anola, Manitoba, recently achieved record milk production with its DeLaval VMS (voluntary milking system) shortly after transitioning from a double-four milking parlour to the robotic milking unit.
Your cattle’s milk production can plummet when heat and humidity rise. Depending upon cattle heat stress level, milk production can drop by 10-35%. That can equate to a loss of up to $4.55 per cow per day.
Cogent Breeding Ltd. has announced an important partnership with the newly formed, type merit specialist Blondin Sires Inc. The move, which creates a dedicated partnership in the supply of breed-leading Holstein type sires, follows Cogent’s recent expansion in the global market.
The first half of the May-June 2016 Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) pay period calculation is in, and it’s ugly. Lower milk prices combined with higher feed costs to send the May national average income margin down more than $1 per hundredweight from April, to just $5.77 per hundredweight.
Globally, dairy farmers are starting to react to protracted lower milk prices by cutting production, according to Rabobank’s Dairy Quarterly newsletter. However, despite short-term price increases, demand growth remains slow, pushing producer recovery to sustainable price levels into 2017.
With the 2016 hay growing and harvest season well underway, USDA’s annual acreage report indicated U.S. hay harvested area will be up from a year earlier. The report, released June 30, set estimated all hay acreage at about 56.1 million acres, up 2 percent compared with the 54.4 million acres harvested in 2015.
When a New York City-based public relations firm called my cellphone earlier this year to extend an invitation to interview Texas dairyman Donald De Jong, I took notice. Few dairy producers I’ve met before have communications professionals on retainer, especially ones who work in the Big Apple.
