Milk News

The Australian Fodder Industry Association is concerned about the knock on effects of low milk prices.

Czech dairy farmers took to the highways Monday morning to bring the nation's traffic to a snail's pace for two hours.

HUNDREDS of jobs will be created and secured after the Scottish government doled out a 3.9million grant to a dairy co-op. First Milk are to build a new creamery in Campbeltown, Argyll, keeping 100 people and 42 dairy farms in work.

Fonterra has cancelled its supply contract with a Tasmanian dairy farmer who faces animal cruelty allegations.

The Boston Globe reports that organic milk sales have plunged this year. The Globe says sales are expected to drop 15% in 2009 compared to 2008.

Wisconsin farmers received an average price of $11.60 per hundredweight for their milk in May, $7.50 less than in May 2008, the National Agricultural Statistics Service reported.

Bill Kettelkamp holds Tanner Rosdail, son of another local dairy farmer, as he shuts off the flow of milk during a protest in which the farm dumped some of its milk in protest of low milk prices on Sunday.

When Joseph Pasquerilla argued that Dean's Dairy Products Co. should get Brookfield Local School District's milk contract, he had not seen the bids tendered by Dean's and Turner Dairy Farms Inc.

Dino Giacomazzi, whose great-grandfather started the Giacomazzi Dairy in Hanford, Calif., in 1893, said he had no choice but to sell 100 cows, or 11 percent of his herd, in the past four months.

Kleinpeter Farms occupies two of the three roles, milking its own cows and processing the milk, though it also gets milk from independent Louisiana dairy farms.

Bidders from 12 states are expected to attend the Maryland auction of rare dairy supplies, unique milk bottles and cream separators.

DAIRY farmers in the region are facing hard times following the collapse of a major co-operative milk processor.

The organic dairy industry was thriving when Allen and Jean Moody bought a 200-acre Wisconsin dairy farm in 2006 and joined the ranks of farmers churning out milk raised without growth hormones, pesticides or other chemicals.

Cows wait to be milked at the Faria Dairy Farm in Escalon, California. As milk prices continue to plummet due to a weakening international and national demand, dairy farmers across the U.S. are struggling to turn a profit prompting many to sell off their cattle for slaughter and turn fields into corn crops.

The near-term outlook for global dairy markets continues to underwhelm, says a report just released by Rabobank.

According to Farm Credit, it costs dairy farmers $17.58 to produce a hundredweight of milk.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will unveil proposals today to help the state's struggling dairy farmers.

Tuesday, June 23 06:26:22 Hundreds of tractors driven by farmers angry about low food and milk prices snarled up roads around central Luxembourg yesterday as European Union ministers met to discuss future changes to farm policy.

It's wheat sowing season on Argentina's Pampas plains, but farmers are biding their time -- praying for rain and a government defeat in Sunday's mid-term election.

New research finds reaching for fat free milk instead of a fruit drink at breakfast helps you feel fuller and eat less at lunchtime Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.