Posted: July 29, 2010 at 4:00 pm
By News Editor
The Wisconsin Dairy Business Association is seeking nominations for the Environmental Excellence Award. Are you, or do you know, an innovative dairy farmer who has taken extraordinary steps to protect the environment? Then, nominate them today!
Dairy farmers across the nation have been making positive changes to their operations in order to protect our air, water and quality of our environment. Farmers implement such changes not to receive recognition, but because it is the right thing to do for their farm, their family, their community and their environment.
Source: The Dairy Business Association (DBA)
Posted: July 29, 2010 at 3:52 pm
By News Editor
CWT has made the following announcement:
Following an economic evaluation of the competitiveness of U.S. butter and anhydrous milkfat (AMF) given the increases in the butter price at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in recent weeks, Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) decided to add these two products to those currently eligible for assistance under the CWT Export Assistance program.
In the past month, the butter price at the CME has moved up to more than 13 cents a pound. As a result, the prices of butter and AMF in the U.S. have moved above the world price for these two commodities. The decision was made to make export assistance available on these two products in order to allow CWT members to maintain market share in light of the increase in the U.S. price.
As a result, CWT accepted four bids from Dairy Farmers of America and three bids from Land O’Lakes for 1,714 metric tons (3,778,724 pounds) of butter and AMF to Europe, the Caribbean, South America, and the Middle East. Delivery will take place from July through November.
CWT also accepted two bids from Dairy Farmers of America for 97 metric tons (213,848 pounds) of Cheddar cheese to Europe and Asia. This product will be delivered from August through November 2010.
Since CWT reactivated the Export Assistance program on March 18, 2010, it has assisted members in making export sales of Cheddar, Monterey Jack, and Gouda cheese totaling 17,330 metric tons (38.2 million pounds) to 23 countries on four continents. The totals have been adjusted due to the cancellation of a bid for 38 metric tons of cheese to Africa.
Assisting CWT members through the Export Assistance Program positively impacts producer milk prices in the long-term by helping member cooperatives to gain world market share and expand the demand for U.S. dairy products.
Source: Cooperatives Working Together (CWT)
Posted: July 28, 2010 at 8:13 pm
By News Editor
Young Jersey breeders have the opportunity to attend the 19th International Conference of World Jersey Cattle Bureau (WJCB). The WJCB’s Jersey Educational Travel Award (JETA) provides scholarships for five individuals to participate in the upcoming conference, Hooked on Jerseys, scheduled for February 9 through 14, 2011 in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Individuals ages 18 to 40 in the conference year who can demonstrate an involvement in dairy farming, enthusiasm for breeding and developing Jersey cattle, and who have a genuine interest in an international education experience are invited to apply.
Awards will cover the cost of travel documents, roundtrip air fares and ground transportation, registration and all other conference fees for the week of the conference. The recipients will also be awarded lifetime membership of the World Jersey Cattle Bureau.
Award recipients agree to attend all conference sessions and make a short presentation (approximately 20 minutes) while at the conference during a Young Breeders focus session. Following the conference, they are expected to report on their experience and what they learned, both in a written report submitted to the WJCB President, and through speeches to Jersey, dairy and other agriculture-related groups in their home country. A final report on activities is to be submitted to the WJCB President no later than six months after the conference.
Applications consist of a résumé, clearly summarizing work experience in dairy farming, experience with Jersey cattle, and formal education, and an essay of 750 words describing personal ambitions in the dairy industry with Jersey cattle, and stating reasons for attending the conference. Two letters of recommendation must also be submitted. Deadline is Monday, September 20, 2010.
Applications will be evaluated on the established record and leadership qualities of the candidate, and also potential for future success in the dairy industry. The AJCA will submit no more than two (2) candidates to the WJCB office by September 30, including a letter of recommendation for each candidate submitted for consideration. An anonymous selection committee appointed by the WJCB President shall review the applications and select up to five recipients. These individuals will be notified directly by the WJCB Secretary and potential recipients must accept or decline the award within two weeks of such notification.
Source: US Jersey
Posted: July 28, 2010 at 7:54 pm
By News Editor
Congratulations to Elles Niessen of Lewisville, Ind. for being selected the 2010 Dairy Princess for the American Dairy Association of Indiana.
Elles, age 20, is the daughter of Nico and Milly Niessen. She represented the Dairy Farmers of America in the 2010 Indiana Dairy Princess Scholarship Program. Elles is a sophomore at Indiana University School of Nursing.
Retiring Princess Audrie Koester of Wadesville ended her reign by turning over the title to Elles and wished her well as she represents the Indiana Dairy Industry throughout the coming year. Elles will serve as the official goodwill ambassador for Indiana’s dairy farmers during the year by making a number of public appearances and participating in promotional events. As the Indiana Dairy Princess, Niessen receives a $1000 scholarship from the American Dairy Association along with other gifts of appreciation from sponsors.
Contestants were judged on poise, personality, speaking ability, education and dairy background. Judges for the contest included Leah Beyer – Director of Livestock for the Indiana Soybean Alliance and Indiana Corn Marketing Council, David Blower – Associate Publisher and Editor for Farm World and Martha Rardin – Director of Nutrition and Dietetics for Hendricks Community Hospital. Miss Niessen’s presentation was on the importance of ‘Going Green’ and ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.’
Indiana has more than 1600 dairy farms that produce the wholesome, nutritious product – milk. Indiana dairy farmers produce over 3 billion pounds of milk annually and the state is the second-largest producer of ice cream. As Dairy Princess, Elles will be educating the public and her peers on the importance dairy in Indiana’s economy and Hoosier’s health.
Source: Winners Drink Milk blog
Posted: July 28, 2010 at 3:24 pm
By Cindy Zimmerman
Butter could make better biodiesel, according to some researchers.
In a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, scientists with USDA’s Ag Research Service found that butter could serve as another eco-friendly feedstock for biodiesel.
Michael Haas and colleagues cite rising global demand for biodiesel, and the desire to expand the feedstock base, as motivating factors for their research. The United States alone has committed to producing 36 billion gallons of biofuel by 2022, a major increase from the current annual production level of about 11 billion gallons. Most of that was ethanol. Biodiesel production, now approaching 1 billion gallons annually in the U.S., is also slated to increase. As researchers seek additional and affordable feedstocks for biodiesel production, these scientists turned to butter, one billion pounds of which are produced annually. Could surplus, spoiled, or nonfood-grade butter be used to make biodiesel at competitive prices?
In an effort to find out, the scientists recovered the fat from a quarter-ton of butter and converted it into the fatty acid esters that constitute biodiesel. They found that the resulting material met all but one of the official test standards for biodiesel. The study concluded that with further purification or by blending with biodiesel from other feedstocks butter biodiesel could add to the supply of biobased fuel for diesel engines.
Read more here.
Posted: July 27, 2010 at 1:59 pm
By News Editor
The butter sculpture has been unveiled today at the Ohio State Fair, and this year’s buttery masterpiece pays tribute the importance of good nutrition and physical activity in combating childhood obesity. Created by the American Dairy Association, the sculpture highlights the Fuel Up to Play 60 school wellness program, a partnership between the National Dairy Council and the National Football League.
Crafted from approximately 2,000 pounds of butter, donated in part by Dairy Farmers of America, the display was completed in 392 hours, in which approximately 200 of those hours were spent actually sculpting the butter.
This year’s butter display features the likenesses of two NFL players- offensive lineman Joe Thomas of the Cleveland Browns and safety Chinedum Ndukwe of the Cincinnati Bengals, who are active in promoting health and wellness throughout schools in Ohio through Fuel up to Play 60. The players share the cooler with a life-size butter cow and calf, modeled after an ideal Holstein dairy cow.
This year’s display hopes to remind fairgoers the importance of regular physical activity and choosing more nutrient-rich foods like whole grains, fruits, vegetables and low fat and fat free dairy foods, and encourages you to find ways to make positive and lasting changes in youth and schools.
Source: American Dairy Association
Posted: July 27, 2010 at 1:50 pm
By News Editor
World Dairy Diary is excited to announce our new iPhone app! Created by our parent company, ZimmComm New Media, this is the first agricultural news media app for the iPhone.
The app offers one-touch access to all the latest news and information in the agribusiness and agricultural marketing world posted on Agwired.com, including audio, photos and video, and connections to other ZimmComm news sites. The AgWired App features a news tab drop down menu to select ZimmComm News Network feeds as well as individual news on AgWired.com by category.
The app is now available for iPhone users to download, free of charge, in the Apple iTunes store.
“Apps just make on-line access from an iPhone quicker and easier,” said ZimmComm president Chuck Zimmerman. “We wanted to be the first to develop an iPhone application to show that it can be done and that there is a demand for this new technology tool in the agricultural world.”
ZimmComm owns and operates four web-based news sites that are now accessible from the new iPhone app: Agwired, focused on news from the world of agribusiness; Domestic Fuel, which is all about renewable energy – from ethanol and biodiesel to wind and solar; World Dairy Diary for the dairy industry; and Precision Pays, which focuses on information about precision agriculture technology.
Source: ZimmComm
Posted: July 24, 2010 at 11:04 am
By News Editor
Three Wisconsin organizations—Wisconsin Counties Association, Wisconsin Towns Association and the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin—are partnering to sponsor two on-farm Agriculture Community Engagement Twilight Meetings in August. The meetings, conducted in different parts of the state, are set for Wednesday, Aug. 11, and Thursday, Aug. 12.
“This is an open invitation to the state’s community leaders, elected officials, conservation officials, dairy and livestock producers and all citizens interested in learning from each other so Wisconsin communities can be vibrant and green,” states Eric Hillan, dairy producer from Ladysmith and president of PDPW. “Those attending an ACE twilight meeting will be treated to a 60-minute tour of the hosting dairy followed by a discussion moderated by Dennis Frame of UW Discovery Farm. The discussion will provide a platform for open communication about issues important to our communities.”
The Wednesday, Aug. 11, meeting will take place at Saxon Homestead Farm LLC, Cleveland. The dairy—owned by Robert and Kathleen Block-Klessig, Karl and Elizabeth Klessig, Gerald and Elise Klessig Heimerl and families—transitioned in 1991 from conventional dairying to management intensive rotational grazing and is home to 450 crossbred cattle housed on 900 acres.
The Thursday, Aug. 12, meeting will be near Independence at the Bragger Family Farm, a three-way partnership involving Hildegard Bragger and two of her sons, Joe and Dan. This dairy milks 285 head on two farms and is involved in a 32,000 pullet operation and beef operation. Both Saxon Homestead Farm LLC and Bragger Family Farm are graduates of UW Discovery Farms.
The meetings, which are free to all attendees, are slated to start at 6:00 p.m. and will wrap up by 8:30 p.m. To attend one of the upcoming ACE Twilight Meetings, please reserve your space by contacting the Wisconsin Towns Association. Call Wisconsin Towns Association (715) 526-3157 or email wtowns@frontiernet.net by August 4.
Source: Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin
Posted: July 23, 2010 at 3:57 pm
By Chuck
Cheese prices continued to move higher this week with the blocks closing Friday at $1.6025 per pound, up 2 3/4-cents on the week, and 40 1/4-cents above a year ago.
Barrel closed at $1.56, up 3 1/2-cents on the week, and 39 cents above a year ago.
Cheese prices have strengthened for six consecutive weeks. Six cars of block traded hands on the week and eight of barrel. The NASS-surveyed U.S. average block price hit $1.4369, up 2.6 cents from the previous week, and barrel averaged $1.4766, up 5.6 cents.
Cash butter closed Friday at $1.80, up 2 1/2-cents on the week, and 54 cents above a year ago. Butter has also increased for six weeks in a row. Only one car was sold all week. NASS butter averaged $1.7438, up 2.4 cents.
Cash Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Friday at $1.21, down three quarters on the week, while Extra Grade held all week at $1.2250. NASS powder averaged $1.2335, up 0.1 cent, and dry whey averaged 36.15 cents, down 0.1 cent.
Provided courtesy of Dairyline.
Posted: July 23, 2010 at 1:12 pm
By Cindy Zimmerman
2010 JAM, the joint meeting of the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA), Poultry Science Association (PSA), Asociación Mexicana de Producción Animal (AMPA), Canadian Society of Animal Science (CSAS), American Society of Animal Science (ASAS), and ASAS Western Section (WSASAS) was held earlier this month in Denver, Colorado.
This month’s “Milking Parlor” podcast features Gary Winter with Novus International talking about some of the research presented at the meeting and what it means for dairy producers. Gary also provides some information about Novus – the research and field trials that they do, recent acquisitions and their commitment to the dairy industry. Dairy professionals will be interested to know that while Novus is a fairly new name in the animal health field, they actually have a five decade history behind them.
Listen to or download the podcast here:
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Posted: July 22, 2010 at 9:50 am
By News Editor
Dairy producers and industry representatives from around the globe will gather in Madison, Wisconsin, when World Dairy Expo takes place September 28 – October 1. This year, continuing education credits for dairy professionals, nutritionists, veterinarians and veterinary technicians can be earned by attending the World Dairy Expo Seminars. Members of American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists (ARPAS) and the American Association of State Veterinary Boards – RACE Program (RACE) can earn one credit for each seminar they attend.
“Veterinarians and dairy professionals will see the latest technology displayed at World Dairy Expo’s trade show and the finest in dairy genetics on parade at the dairy cattle shows held during the week. Now, in addition, they can earn continuing education credits. This is a great added feature for a trip they are already making,” says Liz Matzke, seminar coordinator.
There will be eight seminars held during the week, Tuesday through Saturday, in Mendota 2 meeting room located in the Exhibition Hall. Seminars are structured with a 45-minute presentation, plus time for questions and discussion.
ABS Global, Advanced Comfort Technology, Alltech, APC, Inc., Badgerland Financial, BASF Plant Science, Jamesway Farm Equipment and Micro Dairy Logic are sponsors of this year’s seminars.
Tuesday, September 28, 1:00 p.m.
“Opportunities to Advance Manure Digesters in the US”
Christopher Voell, Program Manager-AgSTAR, EPA Climate Change Division
Sponsored by: Jamesway Farm Equipment
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Wednesday, September 29, 11:00 a.m.
“Recent Developments in Genetic Testing and Predicting Genetic Values”
Dr. Curt Van Tassell, Research Geneticist, USDA – ARS
Sponsored by: ABS Global
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Wednesday, September 29, 1:00 p.m.
“Improving Feed Efficiency in Dairy Heifers”
Dr. Jud Heinrichs, Professor, Penn State University
Sponsored by: APC, Inc.
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Thursday, September 30, 11:00 a.m.
“Will Precision Dairy Farming Change Dairy Farm Management?”
Dr. Jeffrey Bewley, Assistant Extension Professor, University of Kentucky
Sponsored by: Advanced Comfort Technology, Inc.
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Thursday, September 30, 1:00 p.m.
“Managing Feed Costs in 2010”
Dr. Mike Hutjens, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign
Sponsored by: BASF Plant Science
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Friday, October 1, 11:00 a.m.
“Global Dairy Trends and Their Affect on Milk Price Volatility”
Torsten Hemme, Chairman of the IFCN Network, IFCN Dairy Research Center at the University of Kiel, Germany
Sponsored by: Badgerland Financial
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Friday, October 1, 1:00 p.m.
“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Reproductive Management Programs”
Dr. Paul Fricke, Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Sponsored by: Micro Dairy Logic
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Saturday, October 2, 11:00 a.m.
“Mycotoxins in Dairy Feeds: The Threat to Herd Health”
Dr. Trevor K. Smith, Professor, University of Guelph
Sponsored by: Alltech
Continuing Education Credits: ARPAS (1), RACE (1)
Source: World Dairy Expo
Posted: July 22, 2010 at 9:45 am
By News Editor
Great news for dairy in schools!
General Mills Foodservice has committed $100,000 to help schools build their breakfast programs through National Dairy Council’s Child Nutrition and Fitness Initiative Breakfast Grant program. Schools participating in Fuel Up to Play 60 that are looking to expand their breakfast programs can apply to receive up to $3,000 in funding.
National Dairy Council (NDC) is the nutrition research and education arm of the national dairy checkoff program. NDC’s Child Nutrition and Fitness Initiative (CNFI) encourages fitness and good nutrition, including dairy consumption, among our nation’s school children.
“America’s dairy producers applaud the commitment from General Mills to address a very important issue such as school breakfast,” said Paul Rovey, Arizona dairy producer and chair of Dairy Management Inc.™, which manages the national dairy checkoff. “These efforts help create lifelong dairy consumers and healthier future generations.”
About 10 million children eat breakfast on any given day in U.S. schools – nearly a third of the 30 million students who eat school lunch regularly. School foodservice administrators understand that a breakfast program provides significant benefits regarding healthy diets and increased learning capabilities. A review of data from the Bogalusa Heart Study suggests that kids who skip breakfast rarely make up for missed nutrients later in the day. Furthermore, a study in Philadelphia and Baltimore public schools found that children who regularly participated in breakfast programs scored higher on math tests, were less likely to be tardy or absent, and had fewer reported discipline problems when compared with children who skipped breakfast.
“The Child Nutrition and Fitness Initiative Breakfast Grant program can help provide resources to schools serving breakfast and grant funds to help them offer breakfast at school via nontraditional methods,” said Kim Main, K-12 marketing manager, General Mills Foodservice.
Source: Dairy Management Inc.
Posted: July 22, 2010 at 9:38 am
By News Editor
Feeling buttery? Then “butter-fy” yourself with a new Facebook application brought to you by the Midwest Dairy Association!
This app brings a popular state fair tradition – butter sculpting – to life. Across the Midwest, state fairs are a time-honored event combining competition, great food, live music and an overall good time. Even if you can’t attend this ceremonious closure to summer fun, create your own virtual experience through the Butter-Fy Yourself application.
Butter-fy Yourself allows you to turn your profile picture into a butter personality and even add your buttery self to a virtual sharable postcard. Select from one of six butter personalities, including Dairy Princess, Butter Hippie, Butter Cow, Butter Liberty, Butter Bouffant and Butter Up and begin to sculpt yourself.
Customize your sculpture on a postcard from one of nine Midwest states, including Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Share your beautiful buttery self with the world by posting your butter personality to your wall, saving to your album and inviting your friends to do the same.
One of the most popular attractions at many state fairs are the famous butter sculptures. From Minnesota to Missouri, fair-goers line up to see the unique sculptures. Some fairs stick with a traditional dairy cow, while others introduce a new sculpture every year. In fact, even Elvis has made an appearance in butter.
Source: Midwest Dairy Association
Posted: July 20, 2010 at 7:14 pm
By News Editor
Is there a better way to say thank you to someone, than with tasty Cabot cheddar cheese? We don’t think so, and Cabot Creamery agrees. That’s why you can now nominate anyone who is in need of a thank you for a “Random Act of Cheddar.”
Cabot created Random Acts of Cheddar, as an initiative to share their cheddar and celebrate the cooperative spirit that Cabot is founded upon. By participating in Random Acts of Cheddar, you are helping Cabot help a deserving local hero, friend or family member who makes your world (and the world around you) a better place to live in. All of us know someone who consistently goes the extra mile for others and adds value to our lives and the lives of people around us. Why not give that person something to smile about…randomly and virtually? Why not say thank you with one or two Random Acts today? Cabot will randomly select and highlight one nominee per week to receive a coupon for $3.00 off the purchase of Cabot Cheddar.
Source: Cabot Creamery
Posted: July 20, 2010 at 7:03 pm
By News Editor
BASF Plant Science has announced the winners to their NutriDense® Silage Web Moo.0 contest. Congratulations to Ashley Messing for winning the grand prize, registration and travel expenses to the first AgChat Foundation Agvocacy 2.0 Conference. Runners-up include Marianne Friers of New York and Nancy Grossi of California. Both will receive Flip Mino Cameras to help them put sights and sounds to their slices of the dairy industry.
The grand prize winner Ashley Messing, is a fifth-generation dairy producer in Michigan who agvocates on her personal blog, Facebook and @armessing Twitter account. With her blog post “Agvocating at its Best,” Ashley didn’t just tell us how she uses social media, she showed us. Here is an excerpt from Ashley’s entry:
“By the end of our conversation the daughter asked to get a photo with me because she said I wasn’t anything like she thought a farmer would be. She was going to show all of her friends and tell them all about her experience at Breakfast on the Farm. Honestly, these experiences make me thankful for all of the work I do. In these moments I see what we do pays off, all of the agvocating and communicating. It made my 6 hours of driving, both ways, worth the time and effort.”
Be sure to check out Marianne’s Northview Diary blog, which she created after writing a weekly farm column for her local newspaper. We thought her combination of old and new media shows how the dairy industry can use both outlets to spread its messages.
Nancy impressed us with her obvious passion for agvocacy, which she demonstrates daily on her Wife of a Dairyman blog, @wifeofadairyman Twitter account and Facebook page.
Source: NutriDense: Twitter @NutriDense; Facebook
Posted: July 19, 2010 at 6:18 pm
By News Editor
Bright Dairy, a China-based dairy company, will be investing in New Zealand dairy company Synlait Milk.
Bright Dairy will own 51 percent of a new company, which will specialize in making infant and whole milk powder for Chinese consumers. Synlait will continue to own and operate its Synlait farms in Canterbury through a separate company.
Bright Dairy is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and says it “holds the leading position in value-added consumer dairy products in China and is China’s third largest dairy company by volume.”
The company, a subsidiary of Bright Food Ltd, has a market capitalisation of approximately NZ$1.7 billion and reported revenues of approximately NZ$1.63 billion for the 2009 calendar year.
Synlait Milk’s chief executive John Penno said work had already begun building a second large scale milk powder processing plant capable of producing high specification milk powders alongside the company’s existing facility at Dunsandel near Christchurch. This plant will be commissioned in time for the 2011/12 season, more than doubling the capacity of the site.
Source: NZ HERALD
Posted: July 19, 2010 at 6:09 pm
By News Editor
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted one bid from Dairy Farmers of America and three bids from Darigold for a total of 176 metric tons (388,014 pounds) of Cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack to Africa and Asia. The product will be delivered in July and August 2010.
Since CWT reactivated the Export Assistance program on March 18, 2010, it has assisted members in making export sales of Cheddar, Monterey Jack, and Gouda cheese totaling 17,271 metric tons (38.1 million pounds) to 22 countries on four continents.
Assisting CWT members in exporting American-type cheeses positively impacts producer milk prices in the long-term by helping members to gain world market share and expanding demand for U.S. cheese.
CWT pays export bonuses to the bidders only when delivery of the product is verified by the submission of the required documentation.
Source: Cooperatives Working Together (CWT)
Posted: July 19, 2010 at 6:06 pm
By News Editor
Congratulations to Butch Mercer for being named the first executive director of the Indiana Professional Dairy Producers (IPDP).
Raised on a dairy farm, Butch has 30 years of executive experience in management and life sciences industries, and IPDP is confident that having Butch on the IPDP executive team will be a very positive move for the organization.
Source: Indiana Professional Dairy Producers (IPDP)
Posted: July 16, 2010 at 1:03 pm
By Chuck
Cheese prices keep climbing, up the fifth week in a row, driven primarily by climbing temperatures around the nation. The blocks closed July 16 at $1.5750 per pound, up 4 3/4-cents on the week, 43 cents above that week a year ago, and the highest they’ve been since December. Barrel closed Friday at $1.5250, up 2 1/2-cents on the week, 38 1/2-cents above a year ago, and a nickel below the blocks. Only one car of block traded hands on the week and none of barrel. The NASS-surveyed U.S. average price of block hit $1.4112, up 0.9 cents, while the barrels averaged $1.4201, up 1.9 cents.
Butter inched higher in an effort to bring sellers to the market closing Friday at $1.7750, up 1 1/4-cents on the week, 52 1/2-cents above a year ago, and the highest since December 2004. Only two cars were sold all week. NASS butter averaged $1.7201, up 1.7 cents. The Daily Dairy Report says cream is very tight due to strong Class II production and decreasing component levels in milk.
Cash Grade A nonfat dry milk closed the week at $1.2175, up three quarters of a cent. Extra Grade closed at $1.2250, down a half-cent. NASS powder averaged $1.2336, down 4.8 cents. Dry whey averaged 36.21 cents, down a penny.
Provided courtesy of Dairyline.
Posted: July 15, 2010 at 6:16 pm
By News Editor
The dairy industry lost another dairyman this week – Robert Charles Morrell, of Cochranton, Pa. Morrell died Monday, July 12, 2010 as a result of a traffic accident.
Born April 6, 1957, in Meadville, he was a son of Charles (Bud) and Kathryn Elaine Shartle Morrell. He married Candace Hollabaugh on Oct. 10, 1976. He was a lifelong dairy farmer at Morrell Farms on Harvey Road and recently he and his son were owner/operators of Morrell Trucking.
His passion for showing and judging cattle was immeasurable. He judged cattle in Mexico, Canada and all over the United States as well as nine other countries. A few highlights of his judging career include the 2000 Royal Winter Fair in Toronto and the 1998 World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. Also, he traveled the Tanbark Trail (a cattle show circuit) since the age of 16.
He was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed watching all kinds of sporting events and playing shuffleboard. He enjoyed watching NASCAR and rooting for Carl Edwards, and would drop what he was doing to watch the O’Reilly Factor on TV.
He was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Cochranton and the Holstein Association of the United States and the Canadian Holstein Association.
When he wasn’t showing or judging cattle, his favorite thing was being a dad and grandpa.
The family asks that memorials be made to Crawford County Dairy 4-H Dairy Leaders in care of Chris Waddell, Guys Mills Road, Townville, Pa. 16360.
Source: Meadville Tribune
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