More produce, less dairy for low-income families under US nutrition program changes
Nearly 7 million low-income women and children will be able to purchase more fruits and vegetables but less dairy after the U.S. Department of Agriculture finalized changes to a key federal nutrition program on Tuesday. The updates to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the first since 2014, were made…
Will Growth Even be Possible for Dairy Producers this Year?
With growth on the mindset of many producers, the question then turns to how quickly can cow numbers increase. Lucas Fuess, a senior dairy analyst for RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness, says we are now in a far different state as producers have kept fewer replacement heifers and the milking herd numbers are the lowest they’ve…
WOAH cautions against restricting movement of healthy cattle, dairy products
The recent detections of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) in cattle, as well as its ongoing spread in various regions of the world, are raising international concerns. Among those that is closely monitoring the situation to assess the risks to animals and humans is the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH), which on April 5…
Global milk production contracting, analyst says
Global dairy demand is holding up, but milk production is starting to contract, a dairy analyst says. Weather conditions are influencing production in Australia and the European Union, and production growth in Oceania and Europe is challenged by new environmental regulations. “We’re starting to see some headwinds to long-term growth,” Dustin Winston, dairy analyst with…
Scientists Discover Dairy Cows That Produce Less Methane
Scientists have discovered that some dairy cows produce significantly less methane than others. While farming is vital for providing food and dairy to the world, it contributes a fair amount of greenhouse gas emissions, which leaders are looking to reduce as climate change worsens. Agricultural activities accounted for 10.6 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas…
Will the Dairy Economy Rebound by 2025?
The dairy economy is in rough shape. This is what Ken Bailey, PhD shared with a group at the Dairy Financial and Risk Management Conference earlier this month in Harrisburg, Pa. Bailey has devoted his entire career to the economics of the U.S. and global dairy industries. Bailey shared with the dairy audience that the…
ID FRESH EYES US RELAUNCH AND POSSIBLE M&A IN USA
Bengaluru-based ready-to-cook brand ID Fresh Food is looking at strategic acquisitions in the US as it plans on re-entering the market with improved product and packaging. The company, most known for its ready-to-cook batters, is also on the lookout for a country head for the US to oversee its expansion plans in these markets. “We…
Analyzing the Dairy Industry’s Imbalance Issue in USA
Demand for fluid milk continues to drop, forcing dairy farmers to dump milk, some of it winding up in the Milwaukee sewer system. Food processing recently reported truckloads of milk were dumped into the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District because demand for fluid milk has fallen. Ninety percent of Wisconsin milk is made into cheese, but…
Dairy Market Report Outlook
The current extended period of milk-production growth has so far been the weakest of all such periods since 1996, but prices continues to decrease even as inflation ebbs and consumer demand for dairy products recovers. Production of most major categories of dairy products mirrored that modest growth of milk production. Growth in total domestic consumption…
School Mandates Milk Propaganda at Anti-Dairy Event
A California high school student wanted to pass out literature critical of the dairy industry outside her school’s cafeteria—but the school administration wouldn’t let her, fearing that, unless she passed out pro-dairy flyers as well, the school would be found in violation of U.S. Department of Agriculture rules that bar anti-dairy speech on school grounds….