Dannon announced this week that it will stop using milk from cows treated with rBST in its yogurts by the end of 2009. Dannon’s decision comes on the heels of rival Yoplait’s announcement that it would eliminate rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) from its product line. The companies were pressed to halt the use of rBGH milk after more than … Read More
Dairyline Markets In Review
Dairy Markets Week in Review Cheese prices reversed five weeks of gains the last week of February, likely in response to Friday’s Cold Storage data and lots of product coming to the market. The blocks closed Friday at $1.1750 per pound, down 13 1/2-cents on the week and 89 1/2-cents below a year ago. Barrel closed at $1.18, down 9 … Read More
Potential Cut to Farm Subsidies Under Fire
Top Democrats and Republicans are already shooting down President Obama’s plan to cut farm subsidies, dealing a blow to one of the cost-savings promises he laid out in his congressional address Tuesday night. “We’ll have to see what specifically the president is talking about, but we just finished the farm bill last year, and I don’t think we’ll open it … Read More
Doyle Joins GDP Board
Global Dairy Platform (GDP), an international non-profit organization that provides direction and drive to the dairy industry, welcomes Richard Doyle, president of the International Dairy Federation (FIL-IDF), to its board of directors. GDPs members are leading dairy corporations, cooperatives and associations who are uniting to strengthen their interests around the world. Based in Rosemont, IL, a suburb of Chicago in … Read More
Two Additional Universities Join Teaching Consortium
Two additional universities, Colorado State University and the University of Florida, have joined the eight original consortium member (Abilene Christian University, University of Arizona, New Mexico State University, Oklahoma State University, Tarleton State University, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University and West Texas A&M University) of the Southern Great Plains Dairy Consortium – Teaching (SGPDC-T). The 10-member consortium is the … Read More
Young Producer Group Forms
The Pennsylvania Center for Dairy Excellence announces an exciting new program for young dairy producers: “Young Producer Learning Groups.” These groups are lead by five of the state’s experienced and successful dairy farmers and will be idea-sharing sessions. “Many of our state’s younger producers cannot access the formal training opportunities available to them because of timing, cost and traveling constraints,” … Read More
New Calcium Study Shows Promising Cancer-Fighting
A study in nearly half a million older men and women bolsters evidence that diets rich in calcium may help protect against some cancers. The study was run jointly by the National Institutes of Health and AARP. The results appear in Monday’s Archives of Internal Medicine. The benefits were mostly associated with foods high in calcium, rather than calcium tablets. … Read More
Merrigan Named Deputy Secretary
President Barack Obama has chosen Kathleen Merrigan, a professor who helped develop U.S. organic food labeling rules, as the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. Merrigan, tapped for deputy secretary of agriculture, was head of the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service from 1999-2001 during the Clinton presidency and helped to develop the USDA’s rules on what can be sold as organic food. As … Read More
Pioneer Woman's Special Dairy Section
Have you heard of The Pioneer Woman? She is a blogger, ranch wife, mother of four, city girl gone country. She does it all. She writes, cooks, takes photos, homeschools, gardens, decorates and looks good doing it. I’m addicted to her funny, self-deprecating writing style, and her daily updates keep me coming back for more. In her cooking section, she … Read More
PDPW Annual Business Conference
The Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) Annual Business Conference, March 17-18, 2009 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis. provides dynamic speakers you can’t find anywhere else, unmatched information to increase your profits, and networking opportunities with producers, industry and world-renowned experts. Adam Timmerman, NFL star and former player for the Green Bay Packers and St. Louis Rams, … Read More