• Rui and Alvarina Medeiros and their son, Brian Medeiros, of Medeiros & Son Dairy were honored as the Dairy Family of the Year for Kings County, California, during a dinner in Hanford during June Dairy Month.

A&L Labs’ Superkleen available A&L Laboratories Inc. has created Superkleen which, according to the company, provides an efficient and economical solution to cleaning bulk tanks and CIP systems.

I was living in Ireland in 2009 when the latest world dairy crisis hit. Farmers there – many of them small – suddenly had to figure out how to find extra income to remain solvent. I would be swept up in the same spirit of necessary venture capitalism.

The pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is a fruit that belongs to the Punicaceae family. A University of Georgia extension publication indicates that its Latin name means “seeded apple.” Pomegranate consumption by humans has increased in recent years because of its purported health benefits.

Reporting to you from Alexandria (Noubaria), Egypt … We are working this week in a rural area south of Alexandria, very near the desert road connecting Alexandria and Cairo, about 220 kilometers.

The EPA has finalized the 2013 percentage standards for fuel categories that are part of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. The final overall volumes and standards require 16.55 billion gallons of renewable fuels to be blended into the U.S. fuel supply — a 9.74 percent blend. The requirement for cellulosic biofuel is 6 million gallons, which is nearly half the amount the EPA initially proposed, according to Midwest Energy News.