The Cheese Guild held its annual meeting as a working dinner Nov. 4 at the cheesemaking and food service facility of Caputo Brothers Creamery in York County.
According to the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, industrial hemp farmers in West Virginia more than quadrupled crop production in 2019 compared to the previous year. Read more
Among farming-related emissions, manure in the field for crop production amounts to 19%, cattle themselves contribute 25% and manure management is responsible for 24%. Read more
Since 2017 there has been an increase in barrel cheese production and an increase in demand for the whey protein made from barrel cheese, which has led to a wide price difference between block cheese and barrel cheese prices. Read more
CSF Ramsey Teva’s Mercy Me ET, exhibited by Ray Ramsey of Greenfield, Indiana, earned grand champion female honors in the National Hereford Show on Oct. 4 at the Keystone International Livestock Exposition. Read more
The New Jersey Ag Department plans to produce a feasibility study in the next nine months on ways to increase custom meat processing in the state. Read more
SCC SCH Phyllis 849, exhibited and owned by Chris Breeding of Greenwood, Delaware, was named grand champion female honors in the Roll of Victory Angus Show at the Keystone International Livestock Exposition. Read more
Heidi Barkley of Manns Choice, Pennsylvania, won supreme champion ram in the junior breeding sheep competition at the Keystone International Livestock Exposition. Read more
Lisa Keefe from the meat boosting organization Meatingplace spoke to the audience on Oct. 8, telling them that traditional meat production still outsells Beyond Meat and other substitutes by a factor of 90 to 1. Read more
Dairy producers can now enroll in the Dairy Margin Coverage for calendar year 2020 for the program that helps producers manage economic risk brought on by milk price and feed cost disparities. Read more
The Pennsylvania Dairy Investment Program provides grants that support on-farm innovation, research and development, organic transition, and value-added processing of products like cheese, yogurt, and ice cream. Funding for a second year was made possible in this year’s PA Farm Bill. Read more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) extended the deadline to September 27 for dairy producers to enroll in the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program for 2019. Read more
On Monday, July 29, members of the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery voted 99-9 to merge with Kansas City, Kansas-based Dairy Farmers of America. The move came a month after the co-op’s board of directors voted unanimously to recommend that its membership join DFA. Read more
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The impact of the depressed dairy market is felt not only by other businesses that rely on the industry, but in the show ring as well. Read more
Since August 2018, African swine fever has been on the radar of the international swine industry, and numerous efforts are being made to keep it from reaching the U.S. Read more
Vigorous growth of the spring flush is well in the past, and grass has now entered what is called the “summer slump” — the period of time during the summer when perennial grasses regrow slowly. Read more
Alfalfa is an excellent source of protein in the dairy cow diet. Research funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program is evaluating new opportunities to grow alfalfa in combination with grass species to provide dairy farmers with the opportunity to enhance forage yield, quality and digestibility. Read more
Colby Castle, a Cornell animal science major who grew up on a cattle ranch, had heard of facial recognition for cows but never imagined how close the technology was to being widely used — or that he could have a role in developing it. Read more
Dairy cattle and beef breeding stock will be required to have radio frequency ID tags, replacing the familiar orange metal ear tags, to move interstate starting in 2023. Read more
There are times when a latex milking glove only holds so much information, or a pen can only take being used like a pry bar so many times before it doesn’t write. Pretty much around the clock, though, having a smart phone on your person is normal. As being such, I’ve put together a list of a… Read more
