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Alltech Hosts 2nd Annual Gator Giveaway With more than 120 attendees, Alltech’s Gator Giveaway held on April 19 provided a chance for local producers to come together and be rewarded for their dedication to sustainability and efforts to feed the world.
Attendees from all across the province came for the possibility of walking away with a 2012 625i John Deere Gator.
Ty Yeast, Canadian managing director of Alltech, started the program off by expressing the importance of customer appreciation, elevating exposure and bringing excitement back to the agricultural community.
This support was reciprocated by long standing relationships with customers such as those in attendance.
Yeast stated, “I love the way the Alltech Gator Giveaway provides a small way for us to say thank you and helps drives agriculture forward. We want to help our technologies on farm thereby helping you.”
Genex Cooperative, Inc., bull 1HO07235 TOYSTORY has reached a level of semen production never before seen in the cattle artificial insemination (A.I.) industry. TOYSTORY has produced his 2 millionth unit of semen.
TOYSTORY, a Holstein bull born at Mystic Valley Dairy near Sauk City, Wisconsin, in May 2001, first entered record books in April 2009.
At that time, the Genex-owned TOYSTORY joined an elite group of bulls throughout the industry that have produced 1 million units of semen.
Idaho Governor Butch Otter has landed a deal for Moscow, Idaho-based BioTracking to sell pregnancy tests to China’s third-largest dairy.
BioTracking, the developer of BioPRYN cattle pregnancy tests, signed a sales agreement April 16 with Shanghai Bright Dairy Co.
Otter made the original pitch on behalf of BioTracking during a 2010 trade mission that included a meeting with Shanghai Bright officials. The officials invited Garth Sasser, a founder of BioTracking, to its meeting of dairy producers later that year.
Destination Imagination (DI), a non-profit, after school program where students work as teams to solve open-ended challenges, is having Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) provide milk daily for the 8,000 youth participants in DI's Global Finals.
The event takes place on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, May 23-26.
In addition to DFA, milk sponsors include Dairy MAX, Southeast United Dairy Industries Association, Inc., and Western Dairy Association.
Judging by the enrollment numbers of numerous agricultural programs for students, youth are showing an increasing interest in farming, reported South Carolina's Independent Mail.
More than 10,000 students are enrolled in agricultural programs in South Carolina's secondary schools, said John W. Parris, director of the South Carolina Agri-News Service in Columbia.
The April 2012 milk-feed price ratio could be the lowest dating back almost two decades.
The index is based on the current milk price in relationship to feed prices for a ration of 51 percent corn, 8 percent soybeans and 41 percent alfalfa hay.
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