Dairy Industry, Products and News
Brazil’s fluid-milk production will rise 3 percent to a record 30.846 million metric tons in 2011 from an estimated 29.948 million tons this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service said today in a report on its website. Production of cheese will climb to 675,000 tons from 648,000 tons, the USDA said. In [...]
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By April Dávila in Life As a Human In January of this year, while procrastinating on Facebook, I followed a link to an article reporting on evidence that there may be health effects associated with consuming Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) corn. Clicking on that link was one of those moments on which I look back [...]
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Last year, the dairy industry completed an in-depth study on how to deal with globalization. The report recommended that the dairy industry take a more active role in the global market. Margaret Speich, of the U.S. Dairy Export Council, pointed to the Bain Study, which was conducted on behalf of the Innovation Center for U.S. [...]
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Arizona’s sweeping new immigration law doesn’t even take effect until next month, but lawmakers in several other states including are already clamoring to follow in its footsteps. Gubernatorial candidates in Florida and Minnesota are singing the law’s praises, as are some lawmakers in other states far from the Mexico border such as and Nebraska. But [...]
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Over the past sixteen years, half of the dairy farmers in America have gone out of business. It’s not just because of a tough economy — they’re the victims of abusive tactics from a handful of giant corporations who have come to dominate the dairy industry. In August 2006, an antitrust task force at the [...]
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Emergency and clean up crews responded to a 911 caller Tuesday night reporting that 100 gallons of spoiled milk were being poured down a storm drain in west Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa fire crews arrived just before 9 p.m. to find a large pool of milk at the storm drain in front of Mendoza Supermercado [...]
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MEXICO CITY – A new kind of Mexican immigrant is making it big in the United States: huge Mexican corporations that are snapping up U.S. brand names, opening U.S. factories and investing millions of pesos north of the border. From Thomas’ English muffins to Borden milk, Saks Fifth Avenue department stores to the New York [...]
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International Dairy Foods Association president and CEO Connie Tipton expressed disappointment in recent proposals that would create a government-mandated system to limit the supply of milk produced by dairy farms. A “supply-management” proposal was recently introduced in the House of Representatives and a similar proposal was included as part of a dairy policy reform plan [...]
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Hundreds of Kingston area citizens have signed up to prevent, by civil disobedience if necessary, the government’s plan to sell the dairy herd at the Frontenac Institution prison farm in Kingston, Ontario. Hundreds of Kingston area citizens have signed up to prevent, by civil disobedience if necessary, the government’s plan to sell the dairy herd [...]
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Taking reservations for upcoming goat shares. Legally raw milk can not be sold for human consumption unless the animal the milk comes from is owned by the person consuming it. Our ladies are checked regularly for any milk borne diseases and are free of such. No added hormones are fed and no antibiotics are given [...]
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Answer: Contrary to a somewhat common misconception, eggs are not considered a dairy product, which refers to the product of the mammary glands of mammals such as cows, goats, sheep and others, and the products derived thereof. The misconception that eggs are dairy products is often a result of a confusion between the terms dairy [...]
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