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It'll take months or longer to determine the full physical and financial impact Winter Storm Goliath had on Texas and New Mexico dairy herds, but the numbers are starting to show.
In February, the dairy farmer leadership of American Dairy Association and Dairy Council Inc., Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association and Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program voted unanimously to create American Dairy Association North East (ADANE), effective March 1.
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) today urged the full Senate to act quickly on legislation that would establish national regulations to bring consistency and transparency to the labeling of ingredients and processes used in the food supply.
Across the nation, farmers are using different practices to care for the land and harvest healthy crops. One particular Kansas farmer found a new way to improve the land, and the idea is catching on.
I interviewed a gentleman in Kentucky who locally marketed grass-fed Belted Galloway beef farm-to-gate, as it were. He said he set up his beef cuts at farmers market stands and food fairs but wasn’t having the success he thought he would, even though the customers clearly specified a preference for grass-fed beef. He said simply, “The general public doesn’t know how to cook lean beef.”
The average age of a farmer in the U.S. is 58. This means that half of our farmers are within a couple years of retirement or are already past retirement age. The other half of farmers spans a 40-year age gap.
Writing the principles needed in a system to determine the relative value of forages is easy; putting those principles into practice is much more difficult.
