Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the August 10, 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

As cheese prices soared to new records, frustration levels boiled over in the countryside

June milk checks carried a dose of unwelcome pricing news

$17.65 — that was the average cost of production for 283 dairy farms enrolled in the Minnesota Farm Business Management (FBM) project in 2019

It’s official, Class III milk headed to the cheese vat will be priced far higher than all other classes. That’s because the cheese markets rallied in short order

The 2020 dairy cattle show season has become a sad state of affairs

Class III milk, not Class I, likely will be the price leader in June milk checks. That’s a rare occurrence as Class I beverage milk is typically the market leader

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Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the July 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

“This is promising.” That’s the quote from Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician at John Hopkins University Center for Health Security

Typically, dairy sales are comprised of a 50-50 split between food service venues (restaurants) and retail outlets (grocery stores). Of course, that all changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic

The past three months brought unprecedented volatility to dairy markets due to the coronavirus pandemic. It is unprecedented, because CME Class III futures traded at both the lower and upper market limits

“Dairy markets are no longer volatile, they’re violent.” Those words emanated out of Mike North’s mouth and set into my brain as if instantly etched in stone

In dairy show circles, World War II caused 1943, 1944, and 1945 to become known simply as “The war years.”

Dairy farmers will definitely need to make a trip to their respective USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the June 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

Even though a bankruptcy court awarded a majority of the assets from the former Dean Foods Company to Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and Prairie Farms, all is not settled

Fluid milk. Cereal. Frozen pizza. Those three food categories experienced game-changing positive sales shifts due to the pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus

The projected aid for dairy comes to $6.18 per hundredweight. However, that money will be split into two payments of $4.71 and $1.47 per cwt., respectively

The numbers are in . . . the national bulk tank climbed to a 3.92% milkfat average in 2019. That’s up from 3.89% just one year earlier