Friday, November 20, 2009
Click here for RSS feedA major U.S. dairy manufacturer is betting that steadily climbing milk prices will help the company outmaneuver smaller competitors. Dean Foods, a Texas-based processor and distributor, anticipates milk prices will top $15 per hundredweight in 2010, up from about $13 at the end of 2009, a ...
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Dairy farmers in Southern Idaho have something to be thankful for this month, even in the depths of the industry's worst downturn in decades. They've received 3,600 acre-feet of water to mitigate for the impact that dairy ground water pumping has had on senior water rights holders in the ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 12:14 PM
October milk production in the top 23 states totaled 14.3 billion pounds, down 1.1 percent from a year ago, according to USDA's preliminary data. The 50 state total, at 15.4 billion, was also down 1.1 percent. Revisions added 16 million pounds to the preliminary September estimate but output w ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 11:01 AM
NEW YORK (AP) -- (USDA) Cheese unchanged; Eggs unchanged. Wholesale american cheese (wholemilk) single daisies, fresh $1.75 1/4-2.23 3/4. Cheddar 10 lb prints $1.79 1/2-2.31 1/2; Cheddar 40 lb block $1.85-$2.12 1/2. Processed american pasteurized, 5 lbs Loaf $ ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 12:18 PM
PARIS (AP) -- Shares in French yogurt and bottled water company Groupe Danone SA fell on Thursday after the company reduced its medium term annual sales growth target. In Paris afternoon trading, shares were down 3.8 percent at ยค40.92 ($60.82). The maker of Evian mineral water ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 12:04 PM
Colorado district spends thousands on food makeover; focus on local milk, veggies BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Schoolchildren in Boulder Valley are giving a thumbs-down to healthier food in the cafeteria. The school district said fewer elementary school students are eating hot lunches th ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:18 AM
Discharge permits debated BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho dairies and cattle feedlots that discharge manure and other waste to streams, lakes or other surface waters will likely have to apply for a new Environmental Protection Agency permit as early as next summer. The EPA is taking public comm ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:15 PM
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Federal immigration officials are cracking down on Vermont dairy farmers asking them to provide records to prove their workers are legal. Kelly Loftus, a spokeswoman for the state Agency of Agriculture, says immigration officials visited four farms on Thursday ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:04 PM
The cash cheese market sent some mixed signals the second week of November. The blocks inched a penny higher on Monday and stayed there until Friday, when they gained another half cent, to close at $1.5750 per pound, but that's 14 1/4-cents below a year ago. Barrels lost 9 cents during the wee ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009 11:04 AM
Dairymen have been too absorbed in this year's dismal economy and need to focus on growth potential, a consultant says. Jerry Dryer, chief marketing analyst for Rice Dairy LLC, president of J/D/G Consulting Inc. and editor of Dairy & Food Market Analyst, shared his analysis of the ind ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
SWEET HOME, Ore. -- Jan Neilson rarely gets in Mariano Battro's whey. He sometimes gets in hers, but that's why he was hired. Jan and her husband, Larry, produce goat's milk cheese at their dairy, Fraga Farm. Demand for their certified organic goat cheese has grown so much that they ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
Class III milk prices will average $17.45 next year, an analyst predicted at the United Dairymen of Idaho annual convention last week. Jerry Dryer offered positive news on the price front. His forecast compares well with the 2007 price of $18 and $17.50 for 2008. That price for 2009 is estimate ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The creators of the "Got Milk?" campaign are getting ready to make a big push to keep chocolate milk on kids' minds and on school lunch menus, a plan that has some educators and obesity activists none too pleased. The new ad campaign from the dairy industry, ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:12 AM
MENNO, S.D. (AP) -- Roger Guthmiller has spent his whole life working with dairy cattle. He's seen prices dip and jump, but he's never seen anything like the current situation that's kept him from breaking even for four months on his dairy farm outside of Menno. Eve ...
Monday, November 09, 2009 10:48 AM
Dairy farmers are seeing more light at the end of their financial tunnel as dairy product prices continue to climb. The cash block cheese price closed the first Friday of November at $1.56 per pound, up a nickel on the week and the highest since mid-December 2008, however it's still 9 cents be ...
Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:33 PM
The University of Wisconsin's Brian Gould said people are trying to catch their breath after recent dramatic changes. He believes the market will closely watch what's happening in the European Union because of the elimination of export subsidies on skim milk powder, which used to be about 13 cents ...
Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:04 AM
With retail milk prices up significantly in 2007 and 2008, Dairy Management Inc. wanted to understand how those increases impacted overall milk sales. Manufacturers and retailers typically pass price increases on through infrequent but large price increases, gradual price increases spread ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
When it comes to their share of the consumer food dollar, dairy producers outshine producers of other commodities. Food producers across the board have an average cut of 19 cents of that dollar, according to 2006 numbers from USDA. The dairyman's share, on the other hand, is an avera ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
The National Milk Producers Federation has once again been caught in the middle of a debt dispute between a dairy and its creditors. The federation intended to pay Idacrest Farms of Kuna, Idaho, more than $820,000 for retiring a herd of 722 cows as part of its Cooperatives Working Together prog ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
The sudden and fiery crash of cheese and milk prices early this year left producers looking for the culprit. With milk prices based on cheese sales, some turned their sights on the limited trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Peter Turk, a registered broker on the exchange, has a d ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:03 AM
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Unilever NV, maker of Dove soaps and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, reported Thursday that third-quarter net profit fell 36 percent, mostly because year-ago earnings benefited from the sale of a unit, but said margins improved. The consumer goods company made ¤1.05 ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:04 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Kleinpeter Farms Dairy has expanded its ice cream sales into north Louisiana, which will be followed in about a year by sales there of the dairy's milk. President Jeff Kleinpeter said that by Tuesday 17 flavors of the company's ice cream will be in 600 new loca ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:04 PM
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- A Vermont slaughterhouse ordered closed Friday after video showed calves kicked, shocked and cut while conscious had its operating license suspended three times earlier this year for similar conduct. U.S. Department of Agriculture records show ...
Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:50 PM
Farm milk prices took another badly needed jump. The Agriculture Department announced the October Class III benchmark milk price Friday morning at $12.82 per hundredweight, up 71 cents from September but still $4.24 below October 2008 and $5.88 below October 2007. That brings the 2009 average to $10 ...
Monday, November 02, 2009 11:49 AM
Cooperatives Working Together has accepted 154 bids in its fourth dairy herd retirement in the last 12 months. Fewer cows were offered this round and that could be an indication that milk supply and demand are coming into alignment, said Chris Galen, vice president of communications for ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009 2:04 PM
USDA is recommending that large dairy farms, which bottle and sell their milk, pay into the Class I pool and lose the exemption meant for small producer-handlers. The agency is recommending the producer-handler definitions in all federal milk marketing orders be amended so that only farms ...
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