2018 a year of highs and lows for the dairy industry
It has been a year of highs and lows and a few frustrations for the dairy industry.
New Zealand May Cull 50,000 More Cows to Control Mycoplasma Bovis
New Zealand is working on being the first country to rid itself of Mycoplasma bovis by killing up to 100,000 cows from its herd of 6.5 million dairy cattle and 3.5 million beef cattle. ( Farm Journal )
BJD researcher wants to hear from Australian farmers
Learning what did and did not work for Australia would be valuable to Canadian dairy farmers.
Farmers: enough is enough
But dairy farmers not compliant on effluent matters can be easily fixed.
Higher stocks keep lid on milk prices
U.S. dairy farmers continued to rein in year-over-year increases in milk production in November, but markets aren’t responding.
Midwest dairy producers capture growing returns from checkoff
As 2018 comes to a close, a commodity organization reflects great strides made within the past year.
New: Dried milk, whey products to be judged at 2019 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest
For the first time in U.S. Championship Cheese Contest history, dried milk and whey products will be judged in 2019.
Production pressure sees Rabobank lowering farm gate milk price forecast despite another small lift in recent GDT auction results
Despite a continued slow-down in milk supply growth across the “Big 7” dairy exporting regions in the final quarter of 2018, exceptionally strong New Zealand milk production in recent months has seen Oceania commodity prices drift lower and a weaker New Zealand milk price of NZD 6.25kg/MS is now forecast for 2018/19, according to Rabobank’s latest Dairy Quarterly report.
Westland Milk loan heightens PGF slush fund suspicions
Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones’s $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund has the laudable aim of enhancing development opportunities in the regions. But National’s Paul Goldsmith’s dogged unanswered questioning inevitably raises the spectre that the fund may be little more than Jones’s slush fund. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, which administers the fund, […]
34% of dairy farms predicted to have negative farm cash income
MORE than a third of southeastern Australia’s dairy farmers are expected to be in the red this year.