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Researchers in the Milk Quality Improvement Program at Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have identified the predominant spore-forming bacteria in milk and their unique enzyme activity, knowledge that can now be used to protect the quality and shelf life of dairy products.
The study – published in the March issue of Applied Environmental Microbiology by the lab of Wiedmann and Kathryn Boor, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – identified the predominant strains of spore-forming bacteria, which can foul milk and other food products.
Congress finished its summer session and legislators have returned to their home districts and states for the month of August.
They will take this time to travel their districts, talk to constituents and prepare for the November election. In light of the severe drought across the country, the Farm Bill is one of the hot topics that will likely be discussed.
More than six months after acquiring Island Dairy and renaming it Big Island Dairy, Steve Whitesides says he is in the process of more than doubling the amount of milk cows to 2,000 at the 2,000-acre property about 30 miles outside of Hilo.
This will boost production at the largest commercial fluid milk dairy in the state to 15,000 gallons a day.
This week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that USDA will utilize nearly $16 million in financial and technical assistance to immediately help crop and livestock producers in 19 states cope with the adverse impacts of the historic drought.
In addition, USDA will initiate a transfer of $14 million in unobligated program funds into the Emergency Conservation Program.
These funds can be used to assist in moving water to livestock in need and rehabilitating lands severely impacted by the drought. Together these efforts should provide nearly $30 million to producers struggling with drought conditions.
An icon at the Illinois State Fair will celebrate her 90th birthday this year.
Since 1922, the butter cow has graced the Dairy Building at the fair in Springfield. The unusual work of art draws in fair-goers to see her likeness sculpted in more than 600 pounds of butter.
She’s come a long way since her first fair in the center cooler case of the Dairy Products Building, when visitors could only see half of the cow.
More than 100 participants attended the 2012 Kentucky Indiana – also known as "Kentuckiana" – Dairy Exchange Program, hosted this year in Kentucky.
The Kentucky farms toured included Kalmey Dairy Farm and Eddie Klingenfus farm, both in Shelbyville; Harvest Home Dairy in Crestwood; Davis Dairy in Brownsville; and LongView Dairy in Leitchfield.
Teagle Machinery, Ltd., will launch seven new models and enhancements of its Tomahawk series at World Dairy Expo (booth# EH SO2).
The models are now available from distributors and will be arriving at selected dealers shortly.
The new Teagle Tomahawk mid-range bale processors 8100, 8150, 8500, 8550 machines are capable of handling 6-by-4 foot/6-by-5 foot round bales and 4-by-4-by-8 foot square bales.
Schaefer Ventilation of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, is introducing a family of 54-inch belt drive galvanized panel fans for animal cooling.
Schaefer’s 54-inch panel fan is available with 3- or 5-wing galvanized blades and 1, 1.5 and 2 HP single-or 3-phase motors. All but the 2 HP single-phase fan operates at both 60 Hz and 50 Hz.
Featherlite Trailers’ newest options and features for its 2013 stock trailers are now available at local Featherlite trailer dealers.
Featherlite’s 2013 enhancements offer additional options in the areas of convenience and safety. The expanded selection includes:
Side ramp: A new optional side ramp kit for Featherlite stock trailer Model 8127 is designed for easy loading of an ATV. The option widens the escape door to 54 inches and includes two separate ramps to attach.
Kustom Cooling, LLC has released the 60 GPM Hydraulic Reversing Fan System, intended for applications that utilize a hydraulic motor to cool the radiator. The system eliminates the need to stop work in order to manually clean the cooling cores of equipment.
The reversing fan system has been available in a 25 GPM system and successfully operating in various agricultural, forestry, refuse and construction applications for the past few years.
The system is ideal for applications that have issues related to clogged radiators as a result of high amounts of airborne debris.
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