Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:06:00 GMT
Last month, Starbucks committed to making 100% of the milk supply for its more than 5,600 American locations free of the synthetic bovine growth hormone – officially known as recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) – by the end of the year.
Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:56:00 GMT
California’s cheese manufacturers say they are being squeezed out of hundreds of millions of dollars by dairy farmers, and they want the state to change the formula used to determine the price they pay for milk. October hearing scheduled.
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:10:00 GMT
Colorado’s Aurora Organic Dairy has agreed to stop using the organic label on some of its milk and to change aspects of its operation after the USDA threatened to revoke its organic certification for violations including failing to provide enough pasture for its cows.
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:58:00 GMT
Federal regulators have turned down a request from Monsanto Co. to take action against dairy companies that advertise milk as free of synthetic hormones. The Federal Trade Commission said last week that the ads it reviewed did not make any misleading claims about the safety of recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST, a hormone that boosts milk production in cows.
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:37:00 GMT
USDA’s August 17th milk production report showed a relatively strong increase in July milk production compared to July ‘06.
Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:13:00 GMT
A survey of producers who eliminated their dairy herds under the CWT program found production costs to be a major reason for participating.
Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:45:00 GMT
Initial tests for foot-and-mouth disease at a farm and theme park yielded negative results which may mean an easing of the restrictions on livestock movements
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:17:00 GMT
Nine senators last week sent letters to Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, urging him to omit language from his version of the Farm Bill that would enforce the implementation of an assessment on imported dairy products. The chairman is expected to release his initial draft of the Farm Bill by month’s end, and the Senate will consider the bill when legislators return to Washington, D.C., after Labor Day.
The 2002 Farm Bill included a dairy import assessment to help fund the National Dairy Promotion & Research Program, but the assessment was never implemented, because in its current form it would violate a number of World Trade Organization rules. The House included language that may address some of the trade concerns in its version of the Farm Bill. The current version of the Farm Bill approved by the House at the end of July delays implementation of the assessment until one year after the enactment of the 2007 Farm Bill.
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:26:00 GMT
One of the reasons for the dramatic increase in milk prices is the increasing consumption of dairy products in China
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