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Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part series.
I have written hundreds of columns for Progressive Dairyman over the course of 23 years. During this time I have been a public servant, with half of these years at Oregon State University Extension and the other half with the USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), Kansas City’s largest private company with approximately $18 billion in revenue in 2014, has announced plans to build its new global headquarters in Kansas City, Kansas.
When my brother and I returned to the farm from our off-the-farm experience, we knew that in order to allow the farm to support three families instead of one, we needed to make some changes.
Progressive Dairyman editors Walt Cooley and Jenna Hurty, as well as staff writer Melissa Miller, attended World Ag Expo in Tulare, California, Feb. 10-12, 2015.
In addition to hosting a video farm tour and other seminars, staff members walked around the show looking for something new or for interesting ideas that might be useful to dairy producers. Below are their thoughts and comments about what they saw.
Dairy farmers in the Northeast may receive payments of around $4,000 as part of a proposed settlement in a 2009 class action lawsuit alleging misconduct by Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and Dean Foods.
Champion USA LLC has announced the EPA approval for the new JustiFly 3 percent (diflubenzuron) feedthrough larvicide and for DFBZ Technical Diflubenzuron.
Applications are now being accepted for two college scholarships provided by the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program. The scholarships are offered to full-time undergraduate students enrolled in the dairy science program at Delaware Valley College or the food-marketing program at Saint Joseph’s University.
The Holstein Foundation staff is preparing for the kick-off of Young Dairy Leaders Institute (YDLI) class nine, which meets for phase one Feb. 25-28 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Brittany Tilleraas, a farm girl from Iowa, went to school for agriculture business but discovered a different passion along the way: photography.
Growing up on her grandparents’ dairy farm, she developed a love for the dairy industry and cattle.
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