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With the national energy inflation rate at 10 percent and business costs continuing to climb, the New Year is a good time to maximize farm energy efficiency and minimize monthly utility bills.
The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy – established by dairy producers in 2008 to foster industrywide innovation and efficiencies – urges dairy producers interested in cutting on-farm energy costs to contact their local Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) office. Funding is available right now to help producers address on-farm energy use and increase efficiency. The Innovation Center and U.S. Department of Agriculture NRCS are focused on helping dairy producers learn about those opportunities.
Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach will offer a nationally renowned farm business course for northeast Iowa women in February. Annie’s Project empowers farm women to be better business partners through peer networks. The program includes critical decision making and information topics on production, marketing, financial, legal and human resources risk management.
Milk will be off the menu in the new year at one of the state's big urban jails, as Ohio counties continue to look for budget savings in what they serve to inmates.
Starting Sunday, inmates at the Summit County Jail in Akron who want milk will instead be offered a powdered breakfast drink that's mixed with water. "I drank it myself and it tastes like a vanilla milkshake," jail administrator Gary James told the Akron Beacon Journal (http://bit.ly/t1c18N). "It's actually pretty good."
A new Trade Center is being unveiled to provide dairy producers additional indoor exhibits to discover the latest innovations, technologies and services for their home operation. The new space will offer 130 booths to accommodate the ever-growing demand for exhibit space from existing exhibitors and new companies currently unable to get a booth space at World Dairy Expo.
Western Canadian Dairy Seminar to celebrate 30 years
For 30 years, the Western Canadian Dairy Seminar has been presenting some of the world’s leading experts to inform and challenge those in the dairy industry to take a leading role in the development of the industry through the adoption of the latest technologies and information and to discuss current issues challenging the dairy industry.
Plans are underway to do that once again from March 6-9, 2012, at the Capri Hotel (soon to be Sheraton Red Deer) in Red Deer, Alberta. The 30th annual Western Canadian Dairy Seminar will kick-off with a pre-conference symposium, pre-conference tours and producer workshops.
No need to wait until February to find the booth of a dealer, service provider or company you’d like to talk with during World Ag Expo.
The show’s online digital show planner is live, updated with vendors coming to this year’s show. Click here to plan ahead.
The planner’s most useful tool is the ability to search by product category to locate vendors marketing products in your category of interest at the show. You can also contact those vendors prior to the show to set up a specific time to meet with them.
Airoso Dairy Farms will be celebrating its centennial anniversary of dairy farming in California during World Ag Expo. The Tulare County family will be hosting two open houses and a registered dairy cattle sale as part of the celebration.
“We’re celebrating 100 years of being in the dairy business and 45 years of breeding registered Holsteins,” fourth-generation dairyman Joey Airoso says.
Dairy producers and the general public are invited to an open house at Airoso Dairy on Tuesday, Feb. 14, and Wednesday, Feb. 15, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The dairy is located at 18829 Road 64 in Tulare.
Visit the seminar center at World Ag Expo on Feb. 14 to see these forage seminars.
10 to 10:30 a.m.
Hay Situation and Outlook in Western States
New records were established in the hay and dairy industries in California and other Western states in 2011 – some positive and some not-so-positive for hay growers.Record-high alfalfa and other-hay prices and strong profitability were great news for hay growers.
The following seven products were chosen by a committee of industry professionals and dairymen as the newest, most innovative dairy products and will be showcased during World Ag Expo Feb. 14-16 in Tulare, California.
Progressive Dairyman asked each of the product inventors or sponsoring companies to discuss how their products fill an industry need. Photos in this section are courtesy of World Ag Expo or the company marketing the product.
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