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The Hilmar Cheese Co. says it will invest up to $100 million to build a milk powder processing plant in California’s Turlock Regional Business Park, and is expected to create at least 40 new jobs.
Farmers who love social media have likely heard of the "felfie" – an ag-based offshoot of the selfie, which is a self-portrait taken on the fly, usually by phone. (For more about felfies, check out this newspaper article.)
Progressive Dairyman editors figured that if a #felfie is what happens when a farmer takes a selfie, then dairy farmers should launch the #calfie (farmer + calf + selfie). We took the idea to our Facebook fans, in the form of a #calfie contest, and got a stellar response.
Andrew Novakovic is a professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Science’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. His research focuses on the U.S. dairy industry. The university has provided Novakovic's recent comments on the spikes in the prices of milk and other dairy products.
As the snow begins to melt, frost leaves the ground and rain showers fall, farmers are busy applying manure and other nutrients to their fields in advance of spring planting.
The Discovery Farms Program continues to churn out on-farm research results in relation to the actual performance of environmental best management practices. Since 2002, this University of Wisconsin program has set up monitoring stations at surface, tile and stream sites and, in total, has collected 160 site years of information.
Editors visited multiple vendors to look at new products available to dairy producers during World Ag Expo 2014 in Tulare, California. Here are their reviews of some that caught their attention.
Virtual training simulatorsCould the future of dairy worker training be virtual?
At the 2014 World Ag Expo, held in Tulare, California, Progressive Dairyman and other program sponsors hosted speakers from the Dairy Council of California and the California Milk Advisory Board at the noon seminar session Feb. 12.
Since the first commercial sale of Posilac on Feb. 4, 1994, it has helped deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits, according to Elanco, in addition to helping today’s dairy producers meet a growing demand for milk.
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