World Dairy Diary

Milk a Cow Online

News Editor — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:44:52 +0000

Ready for some fun? Try out this milking contest from the Arla Keso Cottage Cheese company. Milk a cow online against the timer! Source: Arla Keso Cottage Cheese

Ultimate Flavor Tourney Kicks Off

News Editor — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:37:22 +0000

Head on over to the Turkey Hill Ice Cream Journal for a little bit of “March Madness” – ice cream style! In it’s third year, the Turkey Hill Ultimate Flavor Tournament picks the best flavor, base on your votes. The first round is up – get online and vote! Now in its third year, the Ultimate [...]

USDA Appoints Dairy Board Members

Cindy Zimmerman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:06:19 +0000

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of 12 members to the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board. All appointees will serve 3-year terms beginning immediately. Newly appointed to the board are: George E. Marsh, Oregon (Region 1); Ray S. Prock, California (Region 2); Arlene J. Vander Eyk, California (Region 2); Brian [...]

Dairyline Markets In Review

Chuck — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:25:15 +0000

Dairyline Markets In Review Cheese prices continued to bleed the second week of March but may have hit bottom. Dairy Profit Weekly’s headline last week that 2010 optimism may have been premature may be hauntingly true. Cash block cheese closed Friday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange at $1.2675 per pound, down 3 cents on the week, [...]

DFA Testifies at Cuba Hearing

Cindy Zimmerman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:00:02 +0000

Easing regulatory hurdles that are impeding exports to Cuba could contribute to recovery in the dairy industry. That was the main point of testimony presented Thursday before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee of Agriculture by John Wilson, senior vice president of marketing and industry affairs for Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. (DFA). Speaking in support [...]

Milking Parlor: Chair of FB’s YF&R Sings Praises of Poo

John Davis — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:43:25 +0000

The Milking Parlor podcast is sponsored by: He’s the man behind the YouTube hit, “Water and Poo,” and now he’s also the new chairman of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee. In this episode of the Milking Parlor, we meet Will Gilmer, a third-generation dairy farmer from Alabama, whose operation milks [...]

New Directors on World Dairy Expo Board

News Editor — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:48:55 +0000

Congratulations to Angie Coburn, Mike Hellenbrand, Steve Larson and Bryan Voegeli, the new members of the World Dairy Expo’s Board of Directors. Angie Coburn serves as Procurement Manager for Genex Cooperative, Inc./CRI of Shawano, Wis. She has been with the company for fourteen years, and is currently responsible for all bull and embryo acquisitions while overseeing [...]

California Dairy Industry Adopts National Dairy FARM

News Editor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:30:39 +0000

The members of California’s Dairy Cares coalition,made up of dairy farmers and dairy processors, have adopted the National Dairy FARM Program: Farmers Assuring Responsible Management as a statewide program to promote and verify responsible animal care. “Responsible care and treatment of animals is a core value for our dairy families, and we know it’s important to [...]

Howard New Bio-Vet Representative

News Editor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:37:16 +0000

Congratulations to Steve Howard, the new Regional Representative for Bio-Vet, Inc., a company that researches, manufactures and markets direct fed microbial and nutritional products for dairy and beef cattle, small ruminants and horses. In this position, Steve will be responsible for selling Bio-Vet products in northeast, central and southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois and eastern [...]

Celebrating the Foster Mothers

News Editor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:04:39 +0000

Hoard’s Dairyman is celebrating the magazine’s 125th anniversary this year, and to honor this occasion, a new version of the famous “Foster Mothers of the Human Race” painting will be painted by dairy artist Bonnie Mohr. Hoard’s will be chronicling the painting in a special blog “Bonnie’s Brush with Hoard’s“. Check out the first entry [...]