Big new dairies are something of a rage in China these days. Some provide milk for domestic use, while others are specifically to make products for export
"Some cows need $2 less in feed daily to produce the same amount of product. Can we find these efficient cows?" Michigan State's Mike VandeHaar asked the audience at the joint annual meeting of the American...
Sadly, all eyes are on Greece these days – like a crowd that is riveted to a ledge walker on a skyscraper. Once the greatest civilization on Earth, its economy is in ruins today on a scale that has...
Herds are getting bigger and more productive, but the cost of employees is rising faster. Everyone who milks cows knows that the dairy industry is struggling with a labor crisis that is only getting worse....
It's been up, up and up for dairy product prices since January 2014 . . . from a consumer's perspective. That all changed in April 2015. "In April, we saw the first drop in dairy's portion of the consumer...
Brand new food products face stiff competition and must earn a spot on store shelves and in consumers' grocery carts. In 2014, the dairy industry met that challenge and had some of the best-performing...
Due to very favorable margins throughout the U.S. last year, dairy farmers were able to prepay many expenses at year's end for 2015. That situation may have given dairy producers a false sense of security...
As the world becomes more global, U.S. dairy farmers are losing the battle for value because of outdated policies that discourage investment in new processing technology. U.S. dairy plants are known around...
It has been nearly a generation since dairy farmers last formally petitioned the USDA Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO). That fact alone makes the California petition...
When it comes to 2015 dairy exports, New Zealand and the European Union (EU) could see stronger growth in dairy export sales when compared to the U.S. That's the prediction from Michael Griffin of the...
I would like to call to everyone's attention that ABC News published a short article reporting the results of long-term monitoring of the relationship between diet and weight control (16 years)
The dairy case is getting more and more crowded all the time, as a wide array of milk substitutes fight for shelf space among real dairy products. Cow's milk has been able to play fair against this new...
While the class discussed in the headlines has some connections with U.S. population demographics, the real message is that the middle "dairy" class - Class II (soft product sales such as yogurt) and Class...
Twenty-one billion dollars in gross domestic product (GDP), $65 billion in total sales "ripple effects," and a driver of 189,000 jobs are just three of the staggering impacts that dairying has on the economic...
