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An exciting slate of speakers is lined up for the Midwest Dairy Expo, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2010 in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The event offers two full days of educational programming and networking opportunities.
Hosted by Minnesota Milk, there will also be a tradeshow, scholarship auction and evening awards banquet. Below is a sampling of the Wednesday morning sessions. To learn more about the event, visit www.mnmilk.org/MidwestDairyExpo
A bright future for the dairy industry has been forecasted after taking a sneak-peek at the future leaders of the dairy industry. Sixty-eight of Wisconsin’s brightest and motivated dairy students gathered to attend the 2010 PDPW Youth Leadership Derby, which was held on Nov. 6 and 7 at DeForest High School in DeForest, Wisconsin.
The 24-hour lock-in gave students 15-18 years old a look at the multiple career choices in the dairy industry and what it takes to reach their goals.
The 2010 Northeast Regional Dairy Challenge was held in Batavia, New York, October 28-30. More than 110 students from 14 colleges and universities participated in the three-day event.
On Wednesday, Nov. 3, Jeremy Peake of Waukon, Iowa, hosted the last pasture walk of the season for the Northeast Iowa Grazers. He has been milking since 2001 and transitioned to organic in 2006 with 36 Jerseys milking. The event focused on how this dairyman plans to out-winter his heifers.
The global market for dairy products is forecast to reach $494 billion by the year 2015. Recovery in consumption post global recession, continuing population growth, rising demand from developing countries, trade liberalisation, and continued growth in advertising are expected to fuel market growth.
In a latest release of a comprehensive global report on dairy products market, the US-based Global Industry Analysts (GIA) Inc; said that the past three years witnessed rapid growth of the global dairy industry, which was curtailed by the global economic recession, changing weather conditions in export markets and varying feed and other input costs, among others.
The business of dairying includes more than feeding and milking the bovine animal. At a time when the government is regulating the environment and labor force, consumers want to be informed and prices – paid and received – are more volatile than ever, the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) took two days to get briefed on what is happening in the industry.
On Oct. 29, 2010, Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) acquired Houston, Texas-based Castro Cheese Company, Inc. With the acquisition of a highly respected Hispanic cheese brand, DFA is entering the rapidly growing and diverse ethnic dairy product category.
This past summer, Eastern Washington representative Alan Yost joined an extremely elite group of industry professionals by selling his one millionth unit of semen. Alan becomes only the 23rd semen sales representative in the history of the A.I. industry to reach this level of sales and may very well be one of the youngest to accomplish this feat.
Alan began his career with All West in June of 1986 while attending Washington State University. He began by working as a relief technician in the Sunnyside area of Eastern Washington until his graduation in December 1989. For the next two years Alan was the ‘go to’ guy breeding cows and filling in on sales routes in Eastern Washington. He began as a full-time technician in 1992 and bred cows for the next four years in the Yakima/Sunnyside region. It was January 1996 that Alan was promoted to full-time sales representative, and has been doing so for the past 14 years.
Do you know a deserving student who is passionate about the dairy industry? Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) is now accepting applications for the DFA Scholarship Program.
Eligible applicants must be enrolled in a two- or four-year accredited college, university or trade school and pursuing a career in the dairy industry. High school seniors planning to enroll at an eligible institution may also apply.
Members of Cooperatives Working Together (CWT), the dairy farmer-funded self-help program, voted Tuesday to focus the seven year-old program exclusively on building export markets after 2010.
At the annual meeting in Nevada of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) – which manages CWT – CWT’s management committee determined that an export-centered program was the most appropriate course to follow in the future.
This means that CWT will no longer fund any herd retirement rounds, through which CWT member farms are paid to reduce their herds. CWT conducted its 10th and final herd retirement this past summer.
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