Darigold announced the hiring of Stan Ryan, long-time Cargill executive, as its new president and CEO effective Feb. 22.

During the week of Jan. 4, 13 students, including myself, Micheala Slind, from the University of Wisconsin and one of our dairy science instructors, Ted Halbach, spent a large amount of time with Purina staff from around the Midwest in a series of learning opportunities.

Donate a box of Girl Scout cookies and a gallon of milk will tag along.

Progressive Dairyman’s first-ever Extra enewsletter specific to Canada was delivered to email inboxes this week.

The Stewardship and Sustainability Guide for U.S. Dairy – a tool created through the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy – will improve consumer confidence in dairy by providing more industry transparency.

A non-funded cooperative agreement (NFCA) was developed and signed on March 27, 2013, between the Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory (AGIL), the USDA and the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB), determining the transition of the U.S. dairy cattle genetic and genomic evaluations from AGIL to CDCB.

‘Tis the season for milk and cookies, but for many families in need, milk is missing every day. In an effort to address the need for milk in food banks, the United Dairy Industry of Michigan (UDIM) created a text-to-donate program available through the end of the year.

The American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) announced new sections for its scholarly publication, Journal of Dairy Science, in its December issue. The changes, which will go into effect beginning with the January 2016 issue of the journal, include moving from four sections to six subsections in dairy foods and six subsections in dairy production to further distinguish content.

A new program poised to reduce poverty for farmers in Tanzania and Ethiopia by increasing the productivity of dairy cows has just been awarded to the Land O'Lakes International Development Fund (Land O'Lakes IDF) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has released an updated version of its Milk and Dairy Beef Drug Residue Prevention Manual – one of the key components of the National Dairy FARM Program.