dairy livestock

Greg te Velde's Lost Valley Farm, Oregon's second-largest dairy, on Sunday, March 18, 2018. ... It's problematic, too, that many in state government, from the governor's office to state agencies such as the Oregon Department of Agriculture, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and the Water ...

PAN-ASIAN retailer Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited is increasing its presence in the Philippine retail market through the share-swap deal with the Gokongwei-led Robinsons Retail Holdings Incorporated (RRHI) that is expected to be completed in six months. Dairy Farm ventured into the ...

National Dairy Herd Information Association (DHIA) held its 53rd annual meeting March 6-8, in San Antonio, Texas. Session topics included dairy data technologies, National Dairy FARM (Farmers Assuring Responsible Management) program, genomics, legal challenges and opportunities in agricultural ...

Some Texas dairies have more than 10,000 cows, while Wisconsin's herd size for organics is often fewer than 100 cows per farm. ... And while the number of Wisconsin dairy farms has been declining for years — to about 9,000 now from 14,265 in 2007 — milk production has increased as farms have ...

DAIRY Farm International Holdings will be partnering Philippine-listed Robinsons Retail Holdings (RRHI), with the retail group holding an 18.25 per cent stake in RRHI. In a Singapore Exchange filing on Friday, the member of the Jardine Matheson Group said that it will combine its interest in wholly-owned ...

The demolition of the existing dairy cattle barn is complete and the construction of the new dairy cattle barn will begin in March with a substantial completion date of Aug. 1. Jerome Vetting, Expo-Ice Center Board chairman, said the construction of the new dairy cattle barn will be the anchor of the Manitowoc ...

The plans will be completed using a program developed by the Ohio Department of Agriculture. The partnering groups are Ohio AgriBusiness Association, Ohio Cattlemen's Association, Ohio's Certified Crop Advisors, Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association, Ohio Dairy Producers Association, Ohio Farm ...

The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of AgWeb or Farm Journal. The opinions expressed below are the author's ... These events have led several to question if Walmart getting involved in the dairy industry is good or bad for our future. Certainly the Walmart story is well known.

It's a total loss. That's what firefighters say of a large quonset containing semi trailers that caught fire at a dairy farm in the Osler area on Monday night. The family who owns the farm is safe but there were approximately $2 million in damages to the six-bay building, which housed most of the farm's equipment ...

Global dairy prices dropped for the third consecutive time at a fortnightly auction on Wednesday as production in New Zealand continued its slow pickup from weaker levels earlier in the season. The world's largest dairy exporter curbed its supply late last year due to unusually dry weather, but the pasture ...

The development is related to a global surplus of milk production coupled with difficulty Dean is encountering with one of its primary customers, Walmart. The retail giant is preparing to open its own fluid milk production center in Fort Wayne, Ind., according to an online article in Farm and Dairy magazine.

Turn down a dirt road marked by little more than a small sign, however, and you'll come across one of the island's most extraordinary establishments: The Naked Cow dairy farm, which is owned and operated almost exclusively by women. It's also the last remaining dairy farm on O'ahu. And it's thriving.

At a dairy farm just north of Creston, for example, the Robert Larson family farm can point to a state-of-the-art milking barn equipped with four robots that ... It takes some time for the dairy cattle to learn the new process, so milk production temporarily can be a bit off until they're used to the robotic equipment.

Mr. Morgan, 50, saw no way to save the dairy farm in central New York State that he took over as a teenager from his ailing father and ran with his wife, Judy, ... and milk production has risen steadily in recent years, according to the state's Department of Agriculture and Markets, which helps fund FarmNet.

That's what he said growing up in Melrose on a legacy dairy farm. Hinnenkamp, 34, left for college and stayed away for several years. But he came back to his family's farm and to an industry plagued by uncertainty. Milk prices are low; changing trade and immigration policies affect farmers. "A lot of people ...

The milk check is shrinking and Pa. dairy farmers are in crisis. Here's ..... “We would lose the farm,” said Alisha Risser, a Lebanon County dairy farmer who's 17-year milk contract was recently canceled. ... Wentworth said happy cows produce a lot of milk, so farmers like her struggle to limit milk production.

12, 2017, Hess went out on his family's dairy farm in Fielding to check on a Holstein that was due to give birth any day, and it happened to be that day. ... He delivered the third calf, and just like that, the Hess herd had grown by three in the course of 15 minutes that morning, all from the same mother.

If you are considering installing an anaerobic digester system on your dairy farm, you will need to calculate the trade-off between the savings on input costs and the expense of infrastructure such as a manure spreader or a biogas plant. It is also important to decide whether you would prefer a 'hot' or 'cool' ...

In general, the nutritional goal of any dairy farm is to develop a low cost diet that meets the nutritional requirements of the cow while optimizing milk production and cow health. In a conventional system that is not utilizing an AMS, this goal is typically achieved by offering a consistent total mixed ration that is ...

Dairy product manufacturer PT Greenfield Indonesia has opened a dairy farm in Blitar, East Java, to boost its fresh milk production. The 170-hectare farm houses 4,000 Dutch Holstein, British Jersey and Australian cows. Its capacity will increase to 7,266 cows to boost production to more than 136,000 liters ...

Releasing a statement on the issue, Teagasc said: “Like many farms in the country the 'Greenfield Dairy Farm' was impacted by the extreme weather ... “Unfortunately, two cows and six calves from the herd of 365 cows were lost during the period of the [Met Eireann] Status Red weather warning on the farm.

If this sounds familiar that's because, almost one year ago, producers in Wisconsin were told by their processor, Grassland Dairy, that they had 30 days to find a new home for their milk. While that wave of milk rehoming was due to export market woes, Dean says their issue is purely domestic. According to ...

Mkhwebane is giving updates on investigations that her office is handling and will also ask for more resources. But the justice committee also wants her to explain certain high-profile matter's that she's probed, including the Estina Dairy Farm project. Committee chairperson Mathole Motshekga says: “We all ...

For milk production in the top 5 producing states, California was up 2.2% from January a year ago; Wisconsin up 0.4%; Idaho up 2.1%; New York down 3.3%; and Texas up 5.8%. ... Dairy cow slaughter in January was 289,800 head, up 42,500 head from December and 20,800 more than January 2017.

Milk co-op mailing highlights suicide risk for dairy farmers ... The Agri-Mark dairy cooperative got the resources out to its 1,000 farmers in New England and New York following the suicide of a member farmer in January, and one ... The farm prices have no direct correlation with what consumers pay for milk.

Ohio began relying on outside companies to deliver milk to prisons after selling off its dairy cows in 2016. Reducing contraband was one of several factors the prisons director cited at the time in support of the move. "The department anticipates that phasing out prison farming operations will also minimize ...

Lost Valley Farm opened in April 2017 near Boardman along the Columbia River in north central Oregon to supply the Tillamook County Creamery Association, ... Each time, the dairy failed to comply with most of those requirements, the Oregon Department of Agriculture said in the lawsuit filed last week.

DENVER — As the dairy industry evolves and modernizes, dairy companies across the U.S. are looking to capitalize on increasing milk production through international joint ventures. For these ventures they are looking for companies with significant manufacturing, networking and marketing expertise, ...

After planning the farm, Rod and Karen led fundraisers to build the dairy and then traveled to Bolivia in 2009 for the start of the barn, traveling there three other times before he died in 2011. ... Brook Corner Farms has a rolling herd average of 28,600 pounds with 1,130 pounds of fat and 854 pounds protein.

The difference between Harvey and Rinehart — who has beef interests and 5000 hectares in Queensland at her Hope Dairies concern — is that Harvey Norman's executive chairman decided to use a stock exchange-listed company to give dairy farming a go. Though much favoured by retail investors, ...

"It's tough to keep your head up with all of what's going on," says 55-year-old Will Rogers, a ruddy-faced white-haired farmer who has 75 cows on his farm in Warren, Mass. Out in his barn milking cows at the crack of dawn, as he does every single day, Rogers says farming is his calling, just as it was for his ...

Alex and Kip raised heifers on the farm and started by buying about 100 head. Alex built the herd over time, mostly purchasing animals from one dairy in Ohio. About one-third of the cows in their herd trace back to the original dairy. Alex manages the cows and Kip manages the outside work. All crop acres ...

"We took the time to sit down, went through milker training schools and worked with our co-op on the best practices that we could put in place for milking procedure, udder health and cow care on the farm. So implementing the procedures we thought we could do the best job to have the strongest health and ...

Some farmers in Wisconsin have joined forces with NFL players to promote agriculture as a possible career for students. ... from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, Greg Jennings, wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, teams up with a Wisconsin dairy farmer for the inaugural Land O' Lakes Farm Bowl.

Amid downward global pressure on milk prices and ever-rising production costs, he sold his herd in August 2016. Now, Harcum and other ... in today's dairy industry. From 2002 to 2012, the number of dairy farms across the country shrank nearly 40 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.