Dairy Industry, Products and News
Cash cheese slid again on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Wednesday, blocks down another 6.5 cents to close at $1.6925 while barrels fell 5 cents to $1.73. The final price in both cases was set by actual sales; there were lower unfilled bids for each. In the last week, blocks have lost 31 cents, barrels [...]
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FULTON — A proposed 7,000-head dairy is one step closer to being built in Hanson County, but some in the county say opposition to the project is growing. Michael Crinion, of Hanson County Dairy Developers, recently received verbal approval of a water permit application from the state Water Management Board, pending a fact-finding pursuit. A [...]
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WEST ALIQUIPPA, Pa. (AP) — The news just keeps getting worse for a western Pennsylvania dairy that stopped producing milk earlier this month because it has been tainted by bacteria that has sickened at least 14 people. A storage building containing two farm vehicles and about 20,000 pounds of scrap newspaper has burned to the [...]
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Fonterra said today it is planning to scale back its unprofitable organic dairy operations amid waning public appetite to pay a premium for such products. The cooperative plans to concentrate most of its North Island organic suppliers around its Hautapu processing plant in the Waikato, which will have the effect of reducing the number of [...]
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Milk fulfills an important role in meeting nutritional needs for people around the world. With the global population upsurge, the demand for safe, wholesome dairy products is also growing. Forecasts say dairy production is likely to increase by 30% worldwide during the following ten years, with Asia and Africa being the largest drivers of the [...]
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Think we have a free market? Think again. Think it was free market capitalism that collapsed the financial system? Think again. What America has, and what we’ve had for a long time, is Cartelism. It is becoming increasingly evident that every industry has been infected by “Too-Big-to-Fail” consolidation that has resulted in a near-picture-perfect oligarchy [...]
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Editorial comment: This is a very important excerpt from the ground-breaking Canadian documentary The Corporation from 2007 (WINNER OF 26 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS!), by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot and Joel Bakan. This excerpt has come back into the light since “An appeals court just upheld your right to easily choose drug-free milk from drug-free cows. This [...]
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Forget all the tacky jokes about cow flatulence causing climate change. A new study reports that the dairy industry is responsible for only about 2.0 percent of all US greenhouse gas emissions. The study, led by the University of Arkansas in association with Michigan Technological University, measures the carbon footprint of a gallon of fluid [...]
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Not a lot of activity in the cash dairy markets this week. Prices have held steady with only one sale and one offer in the cheese market and nothing has happened in butter. Not much product making it to the CME as milk intakes continue to be on the low side and buyers aren’t looking [...]
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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 waterways [...]
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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 responses to date. [...]
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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 I have [...]
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