U.S. Milk Production Trends for February in Pie charts
USDA released its latest Milk Production report Friday, detailing the nation’s milk production for the month of February. Here’s a snapshot of what the agency reported for the major milk-producing states. February Milk Production According to USDA, total milk production across the 24 major states during February reached about 17.0 billion pounds, down 2.6% year-over-year….
Rising Heat Could Cut Milk Yields by 30%
Extreme heat is taking a toll on livestock agriculture. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign examines how heat stress affects U.S. dairy farms. The researchers found that high temperatures and humidity lead to a 1% annual decline in milk yield. Smaller farms suffer more than large ones, which can adopt management strategies to…
Irish dairy farmers can ‘no longer absorb’ cost
Dairy farmers say they can no longer absorb a significant spike in the cost of production of milk products, and that consumers will have to accept rising prices for the likes of milk, cheese, and butter. Irish dairy cows produce over eight billion litres of milk annually, but in the last year wholesale dairy production…
Choosing the right cows for breeding-Teagasc
Much time and effort is put into choosing the AI bull each year and rightly so; however, are you putting as much effort into choosing the right cows to breed from? Ultimately, the bull is only half the story, and choosing the right cows is also vital. With a slowdown in herd expansion, and increased…
Modest global dairy growth amid trade shifts
The global dairy market is poised for modest supply growth in 2025, driven by steady production expansion and export demand, according to a new report by food and agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank. However, with the slow growth rate not expected to translate into surging stocks or general oversupply, global dairy prices look set to remain…
Has butterfat production begun to outpace consumer demand?
This January, U.S. butterfat levels pushed to a record 4.46%. That’s up from 4.35% just 12 months ago and a remarkable jump from 4.03% in the January 2020 milk supply, according to data published by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service. The increasing production has some people asking, “Are we beginning to produce too much butterfat?” “That’s…
Indonesia plans to import 200,000 dairy cows this year
A total of 1,250 dairy cattle imported from Australia have arrived in Indonesia, as part of the Government’s broader efforts to attract investment in expanding the national dairy herd and increasing domestic milk production. The Frisian Holstein (FH) dairy cattle with a gestation age of 3-5 months arrived at Tanjungwangi Port, Banyuwangi, said director general…
US was among top 10 dairy importers in 2023
Besides steel and aluminium, which are bound to face higher tariffs for imports to the US from March 12, another flashpoint for US President Donald Trump is the dairy trade. A Moneycontrol analysis shows that US action on the front is expected to hurt most countries, including India, as the North American nation accounts for nearly 4…
FAO Food Price Index: Sugar and dairy push February rise
The FAO Food Price Index rose in February, with surges in sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil prices driving the increase. The price of globally traded food commodities averaged 127.1 points in February, up 1.6% from the previous month and 8.2% higher than its February 2024 benchmark, according to the latest report. After declining for three…
What Trump doesn’t mention about Canada’s dairy tariffs.
President Donald Trump correctly noted Friday, as he has before, that Canada has tariffs above 200% on dairy products imported from the US. But Trump again failed to mention a critical fact. Those high tariffs kick in only after the US has hit a certain Trump-negotiated quantity of tariff-free dairy sales to Canada each year – and as the US dairy industry acknowledges, the…