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Heather Porter Engwall, director of National Product Communications for the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, shares information on the Cheese Cupid Cinema and pairing app with Progressive Dairyman.
This app was developed to aid consumers in pairing cheese and beverages. Whether your drink of choice is a Chardonnay, stout beer or Scotch, you'll find the perfect Wisconsin cheese match. PD
Jason Jenks serves as a precision ag specialist for Pro-Ag Farmers Cooperative in Minnesota. He recently began a blog to explain to consumers how precision ag is helping agriculturalists to produce more food efficiently. Click here to learn more.
What is precision ag? Why is it important to know what it is and what it does? How does it affect the food we buy at the grocery store? What part does it play in our food security?
I often write of the cornfield. Here, in Central Michigan, the corn plant is in the middle of its vegetative growth. On a recent one-day trip, I discovered the enduring tug of the cornfield, taking me in wandering ways through corn rows and over Midwestern terrain.
Her addictions ruled her. It affected all of her decision-making. When she had what she wanted she collapsed into neurotic pleasure and forgot about those who cared for her. When she didn’t have it she was consumed with achieving the buzz.
Not too many Sundays ago, a little girl came to church in her jeans and T-shirt. She got up in front of the congregation and said, “It is not a matter of how you dress or if you come to church or not – it’s what’s in your heart that makes the difference.” She sat down.
Back in my grandparents’ day, farmwives and daughters were in charge of the household and helped out on the farm when needed.
Few would have been considered in charge.
The differences between environmental and contagious mastitis are now largely understood among researchers and dairy producers alike.
But it took a great many studies over a number of years to make that distinction.
One project in particular that helped to point out the need for new mastitis control methods was developed in the 1960s by The National Institute for Research in Dairying in Britain in cooperation with Cornell University.
A hygiene technology that has been in use for more than 30 years in the water treatment industry, but never applied to agriculture, was introduced to the dairy industry earlier this year at World Ag Expo in Tulare, California.
Zurex PharmAgra unveiled the ECAlogix System, which makes it possible for dairies to create a large amount of base disinfectant for pennies per gallon directly on the farm.
Dairy reform’s most controversial issue isn’t going away quietly.
Supply management for U.S. milk production survived the House Ag Committee’s markup of the 2012 Farm Bill on a bipartisan 29-17 vote, even as opponents proposed to strip it from the bill.
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Several articles in this issue were inspired from published comments we’ve tracked down to more fully report on. Two of their backstories are detailed here.
‘Fragile consensus’
On July 11 the House Ag Committee spent 14 hours reviewing proposed Farm Bill legislation. I dropped into the live webcast at about the 22nd minute. Dairy reform took top billing then as the 46-member committee began discussing a controversial proposed amendment.
(Click here to read the story that explains the fireworks that ensued and what they were all about.) Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Oklahoma) said the following opening comments to frame the debate over dairy policy reform:
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