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Updates to executive team announced out of annual sales and marketing meetings
BS Bio Platforms today announced updates to its Executive Leadership Team, including the promotion of Krisjan Jones to President, Rob Patterson to Vice President Innovation & Commercialization and...
Source: Syngenta
Enogen corn for feed supports dairy producers' efforts to improve profitability while also aiding industry efforts to improve sustainability in dairy production
U.S. dairy operations using Enogen could potentially save up to $208 per milking cow
Life Cycle Assessment...
Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, today announced the appointment of Shikha Jain to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC). The appointment is a four year term,...
Source: Dairy Farmers of Canada
Titled “Faster and further: Canada’s Methane Strategy”, this document is a follow-up to Canada’s 2021 Global Methane Pledge. The following is Dairy Farmers of Canada’s reaction.
The federal government today unveiled a new methane strategy which...
Source: Cornell University, Krisy Gashler
When farmers adopt new digital technologies, it affects far more than just their bottom lines: It can impact a web of relationships – including between farmers and workers, banks, insurance companies, veterinarians, nutritionists, and cheese...
Source: Nationwide news release
According to a recent report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, climate change could make it more difficult to grow crops, raise animals, and catch fish in the same ways and same places as have been...
Source: Dairy Management Inc. news release
The dairy checkoff's "Reset Yourself with Dairy" campaign earned a best-in-class International Milk Promotions (IMP) Trophy at the recent International Dairy Federation's World Dairy Summit 2022 in India, winning against finalist campaigns from France...
Source: University of British Columbia
By Elizabeth R. Russell, Marina A.G von Keyserlingk, and Daniel M. Weary1
Calf rearing practices vary greatly across farms, including feeding and weaning methods. This variation occurs despite research-based evidence showing the benefits associated with feeding...
Source: Cornell University
Introduction
Many dairy herds have unusual or exceptionally serious lameness problems. The paper describes a systematic way to approach and evaluate such problems based on published observations of risk factors for specific disease problems and the author’s experience....
Source: University of Minnesota
With a variety of skills and experience, often hard-won through working for others, Latinos look for ways to lower barriers to farm ownership.
The Todd County dairy barn where a dozen Minnesotans gathered earlier this year can best...
Source: Genome Canada
Genomics can help dairy farmers choose cattle stocks that increase milk production while also reducing methane emissions, which present a significant greenhouse gas challenge for the industry.
Around 30% of the anthropogenic methane production globally comes from dairy...
Source: California Dairy Research Foundation
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing up to $2.8 billion in projects selected under the first pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity. Applicants submitted more than 450 project proposals;...
Scientists agree we are likely to continue to see climate change impacts for the foreseeable future. This will likely include hotter summers, more extreme rain events, and droughts. These conditions are making an already challenging job more difficult to...
Source: Penn State University
Funding of up to $25 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will support a new Penn State-led collaboration with dairy industry associations and producers to develop and implement climate-smart practices on Pennsylvania dairy farms. The...
Source: Dairy Farmers of America news release
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a national dairy cooperative with more than 11,500 family farmers, has been selected to receive up to $45 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to scale methane...
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