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EU Cracks Italian Milk Scam

April 23, 2009

Italian authorities have seized assets worth 21 million euros ($27.73 million) from companies evading European Union fines for exceeding annual milk production quotas, EU antifraud investigators said April 15. Citing a final ruling issued by Italy’s Supreme Court , which may not be appealed, the EU’s anti-fraud unit OLAF said an important precedent had now

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Dairy Farmers Avoid Livestock Industry Trauma

By Ron Friesen April 16, 2009

While hog producers experience an industry meltdown and beef producers struggle to emerge from BSE’s shadow, it’s steady as she goes for Manitoba milk producers. Figures released at an April 3 Dairy Farmers of Manitoba meeting showed an industry with no huge problems and only a few relatively minor hiccups. “We’re doing quite well,” acknowledged

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Chief Trade Negotiator Moves To New Portfolio

By Alex Binkley April 16, 2009

After years as Canada’s chief agriculture negotiator at the WTO, Steve Verheul has joined the team of Canadian officials working out a free trade deal with the European Union. Verheul, who was raised on a Southern Ontario dairy farm, has spoken to countless farm meetings since he took on the chief negotiator’s job in the

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New Label Law Shakes Up U. S. Meat Industry

By Bob Burgdorfer April 16, 2009

Bryan Karwal raises and sells 18,000 Canadianborn hogs a year on his Iowa farm, but a new food-labelling law designed to help consumers threatens that business because it has shut off key markets for the hogs. The law has also angered Canada and Mexico because they say it will hurt demand for their cattle and

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U. S. Dairy Group To Trim Herd

By K.t. Arasu April 9, 2009

CA 4A MANUFACTURING MILK PRICE VS. F. O. CLASS IV Per CWT. $22.00 $21.00 $20.00 $19.00 $18.00 $17.00 $16.00 $15.00 $14.00 $13.00 $12.00 $11.00 $10.00 $9.00 Jan- 00 Jul- 00 Jan- 01 Jul- 01 Jan- 2 0 Jul- 02 Jan- 03 Jul- 03 Jan- 04 Jul- 04 Jan- 5 0 Jul- 05 Jan- 06 Jul-

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U. S. Donates Dairy Surplus To Schools, Food Programs

By Christopher Doering April 2, 2009

The U. S. government will shift $160 million worth of surplus dry milk into school lunches and food donations to help poor people, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack March 26. More than half of the dry milk will be bartered for cheese, ready-to-eat soup and milk processed so it does not need refrigeration. The “ultra-high-temperature

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Are You Listening To Your Cows?

By Marcia Endres April 2, 2009

Have you observed your cows’ legs and feet lately? Watched them walking? What about their eyes? Have you taken a close look at their production and health records? Cows can give us signs by how they look, perform and behave on whether or not they are at ease. We all agree they deserve to be

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Dairy Cows Belch, Farmers Cash In

By Ron Friesen April 2, 2009

“This is the gold standard model.” – CEDRIC MACLEOD Canada’s milk producers will soon have a new tool to reduce the carbon footprint of their dairy farms and perhaps make money in the process. A computer package developed in Atlantic Canada allows dairy farmers to calculate greenhouse gas emissions from their operations and estimate ways

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Dairy Industry Mulls New Approach To Food Safety

By Alex Binkley March 26, 2009

Dealing with actual threats to food safety rather than perceived ones is the goal of the Canadian dairy industry following a special conference that brought together processors and producers. While dairy products have an enviable safety record, the industry wants to make risk assessment a bigger part of the internationally recognized HACCP approach it employs

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U. S. Dairy Farmers Want Subsidies

March 26, 2009

Adairy group on March 18 asked the Obama administration to respond to a plunge in milk prices by subsidizing U. S. dairy exports and buying dairy products for donation to poor Americans. The National Milk Producers Federation says the average cost to produce milk in January exceeded the price of milk by 25 per cent.

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EU Cracks Italian Milk Scam

Dairy Farmers Avoid Livestock Industry Trauma

Chief Trade Negotiator Moves To New Portfolio

New Label Law Shakes Up U. S. Meat Industry

U. S. Dairy Group To Trim Herd

U. S. Donates Dairy Surplus To Schools, Food Programs

Are You Listening To Your Cows?

Dairy Cows Belch, Farmers Cash In

Dairy Industry Mulls New Approach To Food Safety

U. S. Dairy Farmers Want Subsidies

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