How to prepare for the big wet

While much time has been spent worrying about a lack of soil moisture and stock water over the past decade, farmers are now facing a very different prospect of very wet paddocks.
This is particularly the case with the possibility of heavy rain in many parts of Victoria over the coming weekend.
With many [...]

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Candidates’ positions on raw milk, GM foods please organic farmers

BARRE —  More than 385 candidates for office in the primary and general election have been canvassed about raw milk regulations, genetically-modified organisms in food crops, and state-inspected poultry slaughterhouses.
Jack Kittredge, policy director of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association, said this morning he’s been pleasantly surprised with [...]

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Organic Milk Company May Have to Close

A Maine farmer-owned organic milk company is on the brink of closing.
Maine’s Own Organic Milk, known as MOOMilk, of Machias will suspend production on Sunday. One of MOOMilk’s founders, David Bright, says they’re out of money.
The company began with 10 member farmers from Washington, Aroostock and Kennebec counties, but the number has [...]

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Dairyman Lang sees hope in milk market

Iowa dairymen haven’t shared in the upswing in fortunes that has smiled on their cattle and hog brethren this year, but milk producer Craig Lang of Brooklyn sees some hope now that the September futures price for milk has reached 16 cents per pound.
“I’m feeling a little better about things now than [...]

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Milk price hike worries Meghalaya – Departments cross swords as consumers continue to suffer

Shillong,  A rise in price of milk here amid reports of supply of adulterated milk by private distributors in parts of Meghalaya has become a cause of concern for the common man, triggering a war of words between the animal husbandry and health departments.
The association of milkmen in East Khasi Hills [...]

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Global dairy prices soar 16.9%

Concerns global milk production could be hit by a low European grain harvest helped send dairy prices soaring 16.9% at Fonterra’s globalDairyTrade internet auction on Wednesday.
The rise follows four months of price declines, and observers say it [...]

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Fonterra in Chinese Dairy Scare

Dairy giant Fonterra says it is “100 percent confident” about its products after a Chinese infant formula company under investigation over claims its milk powder contains hormones said the milk powder came from New Zealand.
Parents and doctors in Hubei have voiced fears that milk powder produced by Synutra International Inc, a dairy company set up [...]

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Russian milk prices set to jump

Russian milk prices will rise through the second half of this year and into next, with the drought forcing producers to pass cost increases on to retailers.
David Yakobashvili, co owner of dairy producer Wimm-Bill-Dann says prices can be expected to rise by 15% in the wake of the summer heatwave
“We can calculate [...]

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Does sheep farming have a future?

The adage “if you keep on doing what you have always done you will always get the same result,” could have been written for the sheep industry. Agribusiness editor Neal Wallace reports that unless there is change, the future for the [...]

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Douglasdale Milk Testing Laboraory

Milk available for purchase by consumers varies in quality because of the different processing methods . Douglasdale Dairy employs modern processing methods, and all the dairy products produced in the factory undergo rigorous laboratory testing to guarantee quality.
A full-time microbiologist conducts a number of tests daily to ensure that every milk product produced at [...]

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Dairy farmers pinched by low milk prices: Family farm group pushes Feds for dairy pricing fix

July 30–Frustrated and angry, a farm group has urged the government to fix a dairy pricing system that has wiped out some farmers’ profits for more than a year.
Thursday, the National Family Farm Coalition said it was fed up with years of discussions over farm milk prices.
In 2009, the average Wisconsin [...]

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Danone’s Fresh Dairy Products in Romania

(Source: Info-Prod Research (Middle East))According to Capital.ro, of Danone’s fresh dairy products in Romania in the first half of 2010, rose by over 10% compared to the same period of 2009, said the French group. Danone has reported in Europe increases over 10% in sales of fresh dairy products for Ukraine, Poland, Scandinavian countries and [...]

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