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USDA on Tuesday announced its decision on Farm Service Agency (FSA) county office consolidations proposed in January.
In total, FSA will consolidate 125 of the 131 offices originally proposed for consolidation with other USDA service centers. The move is consistent with provisions of the 2008 farm bill.
The six proposed county offices that will continue operating are: Lafayette County, Arkansas; Boulder County, Colorado; St. Mary Parish, Louisiana; Pamlico County, North Carolina; Mayes County, Oklahoma; and York County, South Carolina.
The byproduct of industry: Hundreds of thousands of square feet of commercial buildings have flat roofs. One style of roofing for these flat surfaces is what is called “ballasted” roofing. Yes, ballasted, as in weighed down.
A ballasted roof means that the membrane and insulation is not adhered, nailed or stapled down. Rather, it is held in place by a layer of river rock that is several inches thick. So, when it comes to a tear-off, they remove the rock and take up the old roofing materials.
Genex Cooperative, Inc., presented “Excellence in Reproduction” awards honoring Genex members and customers for outstanding reproductive performance within their dairy herds.
“In its first year, this award program received nominations from Genex and AgSource Cooperative Services representatives across the nation for nearly 50 herds, all of which were reproductive award-winning caliber herds,” explains Kristi Fiedler, Genex national account specialist manager.
CNN recently investigated how milk consumption dropped nearly 75 percent in high school alone when flavored milk was removed from schools in Cabell County, West Virginia.
Now, a new product that has fewer calories and sugar is meeting students' taste preferences and USDA's final rule on school meals. Most importantly, it is helping kids get the nutrients they need.
Princess Kay finalists named in Minnesota
This year’s finalists for the title of Princess Kay of the Milky Way have been named. Princess Kay is crowned each year the night before the state fair opens.
Twelve young women from dairy farm backgrounds were selected after a three-day event for county dairy princesses held in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
The finalists are Kelsey Buss, Valerie Grimm, Victoria Haler, Meg Hintzen, Kirsten Meier, Laura Mesenburg, Kelsey Mussman, Elizabeth Nix, Christine Reitsma, Laura Rosenhammer, Aly Schwartau and Maggie Stiles.
—From Midwest Dairy Association news release
North Dakota dairy producers to lead AMPI Young Cooperators
Mark and Angie Qual, dairy farmers from Lisbon, North Dakota, were elected the 2012 Young Cooperator (YC) chairpersons for Midwest dairy cooperative Associated Milk Producers, Inc. (AMPI).
A leading researcher at Kansas State University has been awarded $250,000 from the Center for Animal Health Innovation's (CAHI) Proof-of-Concept (PoC) seed funding program.
Tonatiuh Melgarejo, DVM, PhD, an associate professor at Kansas State University and the principal investigator, will receive the seed funding to assist in the development of a novel class of natural antibiotics for the treatment of mastitis in dairy cattle.
In addition to the financial award, Dr. Melgarejo will receive guidance from CAHI's animal health industry-led board of directors to help bring the technology to market.
Brazil's dairy market is to prove one of the world's most vibrant, growing by nearly 10 percent a year, according to advisers on the spin-off of JBS's Vigor business, whose revenues are to expand at an even quicker rate.
Cheese, with growth of 14 percent a year, is to lead the Brazilian dairy boom, although it will still lag the yogurt market, which will grow by 10 percent a year to R$7.33bn, bankers at Banco Bradseco said.
Who is the best person to share agriculture’s story? I am a firm believer that farmers’ best spokespeople are actually themselves. And more than ever before, the public is hungry (no pun intended) for information about where their food comes from.
Thankfully, the Internet has made it easier than ever before for farmers and ranchers to highlight the importance of what they do with folks thousands of miles away. Blogs are a very popular way for people to learn and share. More than 345 million people read blogs hosted by Wordpress.com, a popular blogging platform, each month.
If dairy producers don't start getting paid more, the dairy industry in Tulare County could die out, local dairy owners told the Visalia Times-Delta.
A hearing with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) on May 31 and June 1 will determine if the price of whey should go up.
Orly Munzing says she felt a little guilty strolling through her neighbor’s apple orchard. So, one day, she stopped him while he was working on his farm.
"I said, 'I’m walking through these beautiful orchards and you do all the work. What can I do to help?'"
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