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Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. is nearing completion of its most recent processing expansion at its facility in Dalhart, Texas. The expansion includes additional capabilities on an existing 40-pound, natural American-style cheese production line, and improvements to a variety of processes to better serve domestic and international customers.
Land O’Lakes Purina, one of the nation’s largest producers of cattle feed, sold defective feed that sickened and killed most of a family’s award-winning dairy herd, a Tillamook County jury found Dec. 18.
Select Sires Inc. has named two of its own to new positions within the company. Dr. Matt Utt has been named director of research, while Marcus Schmelzer has taken on the role of laboratory safety coordinator.
This article was #7 of the Top 25 most well-read articles on www.progressivedairy.com in 2014. It was published in the Jan. 17, 2014 Extra e-newsletter.
So that’s where the money went! Feed costs are the Achilles’ heel of a dairy. Many dairymen prepare cost budgets based on the nutritionist’s ration but do not account for losses in the mixing process by cows sorting at the bunk or by what was lost to birds and raccoons.
Greek yogurt, specifically of the Chobani kind, proved to be a big hit with school students in four states, according to the USDA, which tested the company’s Greek yogurt during the schools’ lunch periods.
An animal rights group is once again petitioning farmers.
The Humane Society of the United States, in a letter to the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, called upon dairy farmers to abandon the practice of tail docking on cows, saying it is “inhumane” to crop the tails of bovines.
The Iowa State Dairy Association (ISDA) has voted to contract its operations to Midwest Dairy Association (MDA), effective May 1.ISDA is a membership organization working on policy and industry issues, and legislative priorities, while MDA manages the dairy promotion checkoff for Iowa and nine other states.
The American Butter Institute (ABI) recently unveiled a new logo for the association, one of the many changes that have taken place recently at the 106-year-old organization.
A sculpture made from nearly 1,000 pounds of butter was unveiled recently at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the show’s iconic milkshake served by the Pennsylvania Dairymen’s Association (PDA).
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