Commentary: Dairy farmers try to hang on despite bleak outlook
It certainly has been a tough few years in the dairy industry. With the future looking ever bleaker for the next nine months, many are making the gut-wrenching decisions to finally throw in the towel and quit milking.
A Minnesota town fights for its life against a factory farm
Economic development in eastern South Dakota can be explained in a word: udders.
By: Cory Zurowski
Source: CITY PAGES
Link: http://www.citypages.com/news/a-minnesota-town-fights-for-its-life-against-a-factory-farm/461331573
South Dakota dairy plan worries Lake Hendricks, Minn.
Straddling the Minnesota-South Dakota border, Lake Hendricks is a fishing and boating destination that helps drive the economy in far southwestern Minnesota.
By: Mark Steil
Source: MPR News
Link: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/11/29/south-dakota-dairy-plan-worries-lake-hendricks-minn
Milk war worries
FARGO – Nearly half a century has passed since North Dakota’s last milk war. In those days, when dairy farmers couldn’t make enough to live, years before North Dakota’s Milk Marketing Board began setting prices, farmers dumped milk on the streets in protest. Shots were fired, fences cut, fires set.
By: C.S. Hagen
Source: High Plains Reader
Link: http://hpr1.com/index.php/feature/news/milk-war-worries/
Midwest dairy states recruiting milk processors at World Dairy Expo
MADISON, Wis. — For many years, states like South Dakota used the World Dairy Expo as a venue to recruit new dairy operations from places like California and countries overseas.
By: Michelle Rook
Source: Agweek
Link: http://www.agweek.com/news/nation-and-world/4346680-midwest-dairy-states-recruiting-milk-processors-world-dairy-expo
South Dakota Department Of Agriculture Recruiting Dairy Processors
South Dakota has gone from a milk deficit to a milk surplus. As a result, state officials and dairy industry representatives were at the World Dairy Expo trying to recruit new processors to the state.
Source: WNAX
Dutch transplant directs rural ag leadership program
In 2006, Olga Reuvekamp came to eastern South Dakota from the Netherlands to help her husband, Wilfried, grow a dairy and raise their children. By Mikkel Pates.
Puerto Ricans Could Ease South Dakota Dairy Labor Shortage
Unable to find enough workers to carry out the painstaking tasks of milk production, dairy producers in South Dakota hope to tap into a different labor force: unemployed residents of Puerto Rico.
Milk Prices on the Rebound, Wildcards to Watch
Even though U.S. milk production surged 2.5% in October, shrinking production in other regions of the world and increasing global demand mean milk prices likely will improve significantly in 2017, say University of Wisconsin dairy economists Bob Crop and Mark Stephenson. By Jim Dickrell and Anna-Lisa Laca
Upper Midwest Ripe for a New Dairy Processing Plant
As milk production has increased in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa, the Upper Midwest has become ripe for a new dairy processing plant.