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With world and U.S. milk production on the rise, building markets for U.S. dairy farmers is critical. In April, the Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) export assistance program expanded the dairy products eligible for aid consideration by adding whole milk powder to its product mix.
Misled, uninformed and agenda-driven groups love to use social media to spread misinformation about how you farm and the milk you produce. The checkoff is doing something about that.
Robotic milking, automated calf feeding, daily body condition scoring, in-line sensors and monitors for just about every function of a dairy cow’s day and more were covered at Precision Dairy 2015.
Two years ago, I wrote an article about a challenge to the federal marketing order for raisins. Then, the Supreme Court held that raisin growers who had a portion of their crop seized for “reserve marketing” could challenge the legality of the regulations the USDA utilized to establish these reserve marketing pools.
Today, almost all packaged fluid milk, as well as many other dairy products sold to consumers, has the following or something similar printed on the product’s package: “This milk is produced from cows not treated with artificial growth hormone or BGH.”
Versatility and flexibility have become two of the greatest characteristics built into products in the 21st century. My wife has a watch that doesn’t just tell the time; it also counts her steps throughout the day.
For the U.S. dairy farmer, global food security may seem irrelevant or idealistic, but as 10 college interns are discovering this summer, this issue affects everyone, especially farmers.
During a recent interview with a 94-year-old family business patriarch, he kicked off the conversation with the following statement. “I am not in control of this business anymore. And I don’t like it.”
Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series.
In the world of dairy nutrition, with sophisticated models, curvilinear optimization and five-plus decimal accuracy, one of the greatest problems we face is delivering starch to the lactating cow with precision.
The term “microbiome” is used to describe a community of microscopic organisms living in and on a host organism. Currently, there is a lot of interest in learning more about how specific microbiomes may affect the physiological processes of the host organism.
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