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The Wisconsin Supreme Court dealt a blow to environmentalists concerned about water pollution from livestock farms when it said communities couldn't set stricter standards than the state.
According to the Associated Press, the ruling was the first decision by a state Supreme Court from among several similar cases filed in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and Oklahoma.
Some USDA reports vital to dairy producers could be on the budgetary chopping block.
A recent Farm Foundation webinar featured several speakers from the federal government, private industry and commodity groups discussing how to head off cuts to many market reports.
In celebration of 75 years as a part of the Salt Lake City community, Cache Valley Dairy is hitting the open road this summer and taking its delicious cheese and butter to the people – in the form of a grilled cheese sandwich.
Cache Valley Dairy's food truck, dubbed the “Melt Mobile,” will make scheduled stops at select community and sporting events, local attractions and grocery stores, as well as some lunch time visits to area business districts.
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) plans to launch a new approach to its testing for harmful levels of chemical residues in meat, poultry, and egg products.
Through its National Residue Program (NRP), FSIS tests for the presence of chemical compounds, including approved (legal) and unapproved (illegal) veterinary drugs, pesticides, hormones, and environmental contaminants that may appear in meat, poultry, and egg products.
The new, modern, high-efficiency methods that FSIS has announced will conserve resources and provide useful and reliable results while enabling the Agency to analyze each sample for more chemical compounds than previously possible.
An ambitious effort to sequence the genomes of 100,000 infectious microorganisms and speed diagnosis of foodborne illnesses has been launched by the University of California – Davis, Agilent Technologies and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Professor Bart Weimer of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine serves as director of the 100K Genome Project and co-director of the recently established BGI@UC Davis facility, where the sequencing will be done.
Other collaborators include the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the USDA.
The new five-year microbial pathogen project focuses on making the food supply safer for consumers.
The nation’s first E15 (15 percent ethanol/85 percent gasoline) gallons are being sold at a Zarco 66 “Oasis” station in Lawrence, Kansas, and plans to offer E15 at the nation’s second retail station, a Zarco 66 in Ottawa, Kansas, are nearly complete.
On June 8, the EPA gave final approval for the sale and use of E15 ethanol blends in light duty vehicles made since 2001. This represents nearly two-thirds of all vehicles on the road and nearly three-fourths of all miles driven.
Given present market conditions, E15 will sell for less than E10 and gasoline not containing ethanol.
Dairy producers, nutritionists and consultants gathered in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, last month to learn how to maximize cow performance.
The educational event, hosted by Calibrate technologies and Purina Mills, was held at Barr Farms.
David Weakley, director of forage research with Calibrate technologies, shared insights on how to optimize feed inputs and maximize profit potential – whether producers are utilizing on farm ingredients or purchased feedstuffs.
Indiana dairy producers feel the pain of their corn- and soybean-farming brethren.
The weekslong drought literally is drying up feed supplies in the field and leaving producers with some tough decisions, say two Purdue University Extension dairy specialists.
Producers need to act now to make sure they have access to alternative feed sources if dry conditions persist and they plan to continue operating their dairies at current herd size, said Tamilee Nennich and Mike Schutz.
The U.S. government announced that Canada has been extended an invitation to actively join the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement negotiations.
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) strongly support Canada’s participation in the TPP negotiations. Both groups agree that since Mexico has been invited to join the talks, it only makes sense for the third member of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to join as well.
However, whereas Mexico and the U.S. already have removed all dairy trade barriers between them, this is not the case with respect to trade between Canada and the U.S. – a situation which TPP must remedy, say the two organizations.
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