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For the second year, the Professional Dairy Producers Foundation is announcing a strong field of pie-eating candidates, including Carl Babler, Atten Babler Commodities; Mark Clarke, Alliant Energy Center; Jim Dickrell, Dairy Today; Keith Engel, GEA Farm Technologies; Marty Hallock, Mar-Bec Dairy; Mike Hutjens, University of Illinois; Dean Strauss, Majestic Crossing Dairy.
During a special meeting Feb. 5 in Syracuse, New York, members of Dairylea Cooperative Inc. approved the proposed merger with Dairy Farmers of America (DFA). The merger will become official on April 1, and combines Dairylea’s Northeast-based 1,200 members with DFA’s 13,000 nationwide dairy farmer members.
This article was #13 of the Top 25 most well-read articles on www.progressivedairy.com in 2014. It was published in the Feb. 13, 2014 Extra e-newsletter.
On Valentine’s Day, we brought you the fairytale story of dairy farmer Nate Kliebenstein and his wife Morgan, a sire analyst, who found love through an online dating website. With cows as their common bond, dairy was in the air on the day of their farm field wedding, and since then, the couple has been farming happily ever after.
Two rival yogurt companies are facing off in a national taste test promoting their own brand of Greek yogurt. General Mills Inc. wants to take back the market share it lost in the past few years because of competitive companies like Chobani, which, according to a report by Mike Hughlett in Minneapolis’ StarTribune, “turned a niche product into the yogurt category’s dynamo.”
Building upon a successful powdered milk and butter export business, California Dairies Inc. (CDI) has diversified its butterfat offerings with the addition of anhydrous milkfat (AMF) to its export product portfolio.
How could adding activity monitors, changing synchronization protocols, or improving heat detection affect your dairy’s bottom line? Find out with the UWCU-Repro$ tool.
At Progressive Dairyman, we get to see and write about the coolest new technology available to today’s dairy farmers. These advancements often save time, increase revenue, maximize resources – and sometimes do all three.
Adam Azevedo and his family run a dairy farm in Stevinson, California. With the milk market the past few years making things tight all over, this family has opened up the farm as a wedding venue to supplement the farm’s income. The farm was featured in a Los Angeles Times article recently. Azevedo discussed the interview process.
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