Sargento Cheese plant workers in Plymouth, WI finally got lucky and won a recent Powerball jackpot. They get to split up $208.6 million and apparently are going to keep on shredding cheese or whatever it is they do.
Bid On Some Fine Dairy Products
If you’d like to bid on some fine cheese then World Dairy Expo is the place to be next Tuesday.
Private Label Organic Expands Operations
After a year-long transition, the Aurora Organic Dairy (AOD), the organization’s second organic dairy farm in Dublin, Texas is ready for production, tripling the company’s pastureland.
40-Cent Increase From CWT
In July, dairy producers began contributing 10 cents per hundredweight to the Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) program. Now an independent analysis reports that the affects of CWT has been at least 40 cents since it began in 2003.
Fresh Measurements of Your Next Feed Crop
Smooth transition to a new feed crop starts with analysis per back-to-basics guidelines. For example, separate the evaluations between the grass portion of your corn and the high- moisture grain. Open your mind, though, to new strategies, advises Dr. Bill Mahanna, coordinator of global nutritional sciences for Pioneer Hi-Bred. New testing methods are providing valuable information on degree of kernel … Read More
Hood Blimp Crash Lands
Hood Dairy got a bit more publicity than planned Tuesday when a promotional blimp that regularly flies above Boston’s Fenway Park crashed into a wooded area. The 90-foot-long blimp became stuck atop trees near an elementary school in Manchester-By-The-Sea about 25 miles north of Boston. It took two hours to rescue the pilot who was not injured. The story has … Read More
European Milk Quotas May Be Phased Out
Europe’s system of milk production quotas may be phased out to help the dairy industry prepare for their planned abolition in 2014, EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said on Sunday. Created in the mid-1980s to deal with the European Union’s notorious milk surpluses. “I think the milk quota system will be inadequate when we put constraints on the sector … Read More
Manure Roundtable
Manure may not be the most popular dinner table conversation, but it will be the subject of a roundtable discussion at this year’s World Dairy Expo. Pro-Act Microbial is actually sponsoring a series of Manure Management Roundtables during the Expo, giving dairy farmers an opportunity to share experiences and to learn what is working for others. On Wednesday, October 4th … Read More
Wide Load Ahead Finished
Here’s the final version of “Wide Load Ahead” that we reported on previously.
It’s an original oil painting by Denise Rich which will be on display throughout World Dairy Expo, October 3 to 7, in Madison, Wis., in the USJersey exhibit area.
Thanks to Denise for sending in the final version.
Dairy Twine Outfit
Here’s an interesting story I think you’ll enjoy.The Elmore Field Days in New Zealand hosts an annual Ag Art Wear Competition. The young lady pictured, Leanne Cavallaro, made her entry completely of yellow and blue baling twine from her parent’s dairy farm!