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The USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) resumed farm payments, which had been temporarily suspended due to sequestration, on May 8. This includes payments for the Milk Income Loss Contract Program (MILC), 2011 Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program (SURE) and the Noninsured Crop Assistance Program (NAP).
New crop cottonseed supplies available to dairies are expected to remain tight as U.S. farmers swap cotton acres for corn and soybeans across many parts of the Cotton Belt. U.S. cotton production will likely drop 19 percent from 2012 to 2013, according to the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report released May 10, 2013.
Veterinarians who transport certain controlled substances to their clients to treat or euthanize animals on agricultural operations have technically been breaking the law. A new bipartisan bill seeks to amend the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) making it legal to transport these drugs to the sites where they are needed.
Accelerated Genetics has announced John Schenk as the new vice president of operations. Schenk will oversee operations of the farm and barn, semen laboratory and semen warehouse at both Accelerated Genetics’ production facility in Westby, Wisconsin, and at the Nebraska Bull Service facility near McCook, Nebraska.
The national brand Horizon Organic is launching single-serve milk boxes of one of its products, Organic Milk with 32 mg DHA Omega-3. The company states that the new boxes are shelf-stable, requiring no refrigeration, and "provide consumers with all of the same nutritious benefits of organic DHA omega-3 milk."
This issue contains updated information about how proposed immigration reform impacts your dairy business. Most dairymen are likely pleased with the proposals in a Senate bill introduced in late April.
Officer John Bradley of the Brookline Police Department in the Boston area is the subject of a recent viral Internet photo.
During the citywide lockdown following the Boston Marathon bombing, Bradley was photographed bringing milk to a family.
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