By prices alone, the past year or so has gone well for dairy producers. In March, USDA reported the highest-ever average all-milk price at $25.90 per hundredweight, 20 cents ahead the previous record set in September 2014. The all-milk...
Being a dairy farmer in Vermont is not an easy life. The work is hard, the hours are long, and cows don't take weekends off. It's a seven day a week operation.
For Vermont farmers, milking cows is not only...
Source: AFIA news release
The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) applauds the passage of the U.S. House of Representative's fiscal 2023 "minibus" package of six appropriations bills, which includes a key amendment offered by Rep. Jim Baird, R-Ind.-04, and other...
Source: Edge news release
Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative is investing in its membership. Through the dairy cooperative's annual scholarship program, five young adults will receive $2,000 awards to pursue higher education.
This year's recipients are Rachel Abel, Thayne Bjelland, Lauren Breunig,...
Source: National Milk Producers Federation
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) today announced the recipients of its 2022 National Dairy Leadership Scholarship awards, recognizing outstanding graduate students pursuing research of interest to the U.S. dairy industry. The awards, funded by...
Source: Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin
Manure digester, cropping practices, animal care stand out at Deer Run Dairy
A Wisconsin dairy farm, Deer Run Dairy, has won national recognition for a comprehensive approach to sustainability.
The farm's Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability award comes from the...
Source: National Dairy Council news release
A team of Utah State University students majoring in food science answered the challenge of developing a dairy-based product for "gamers" during National Dairy Council's New Product Competition.
Students Nathan Pougher, Melissa Marsh, Chandler Stafford...
Source: American Dairy Coalition news release
American Dairy Coalition, a grassroots dairy farmer-led organization, has been engaging farmers and industry in discussion of the future of milk pricing since 2020. That's when the unintended consequences of the Class I price...
Source: Edge news release
Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, one of the largest dairy co-ops in the country, stressed flexibility and fairness today in announcing its priorities for reforming the federal milk pricing system.
"Edge is intently focused on strengthening the relationship...
Source: NMPF
Seventh-generation Pennsylvania dairy farmer Lolly Lesher emphasized the importance of the farm bill safety net program and called for milk pricing improvements today during a House Agriculture Committee hearing. Lesher, a member-owner of Dairy Farmers of America, testified...
