Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Establishes, Dairy advisory committee and Requests Nominations

We here at the American Dairymen like to keep our readers informed on all dairy industry news releases. Advisory Committee Will Review Key Issues Impacting Dairy Industry and Generate Additional Ideas About How USDA Can Help Struggling Producers  WASHINGTON, August 25, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today...

J & D Mfg Free Products Every Hour During World Dairy Expo

  Free Products Every Hour During World Dairy Expo EAU CLAIRE, WI – AUGUST 18, 2009 - J&D Manufacturing is planning the launch of their totally fresh and innovative website www.jdmfg.com at the World Dairy Expo in Madison on September 29. In collaboration with the new site launch, there will be a drawing every...

CWT Auditors Begin Auditing Nearly 300 Farms in Latest Herd Retirement

Here at the American Dairymen we like to keep are readers up to date on the Dairy Herd retirement. Details Released On Latest Cow Removal ARLINGTON, VA – CWT’s field auditors are now in the process of visiting the first of the 294 farms that have been tentatively accepted in the program’s eighth herd retirement. When...

Dairy Situation and Outlook, July 17, 2009

University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension University of Wisconsin-Madison Milk prices were expected to show some slight improvement by now, but that hasn’t happened. July cheese prices have not show continuous strengthening. On the CME 40-pound cheddar blocks averaged $1.1353 per pound for June, started July 1st...

Dairy Crisis

Woody Bryant has been milking cows a long time, and he says conditions for dairy producers are the worst he’s seen since the early 70s. “The things that we buy are so high compared to the price of the milk,” says Bryant, a former National Dairy Board chairman whose farm is in Lonoke County, Ark. “And of course our...

CWT Announces second Herd Retirement of 2009

“Connecting Cows, Cooperatives, Capitol Hill, and Consumers” Friday, July 10, 2009 (703) 243‐6111 ext. 375 Contact: Jim Tillison  CWT ANNOUNCES SECOND HERD RETIREMENT OF 2009 Time Frame to Submit Bids Shortened, Maximum Bid Level Set  ARLINGTON, VA – Cooperatives Working Together announced Friday that it will conduct...

National Dairy Board’s 25th

It’s the silver anniversary of the National Dairy Promotion and Research Program . . . but even its supporters acknowledge these are not golden times for dairy producers. “I think 90% of the dairy producers in the nation are dipping into their equity to stay afloat right now,” says Joe Lyon, a dairyman from Toledo,...

Replacement Heifers

  For the last five years, production of milk replacement heifers has been on the rebound in the United States. But US born replacements may decline in coming years, for the same reason they’ve been rising, Canada, long prohibited from supplying the US dairy cow market, is back in business. Imports of Canadian...

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