Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:35:00 GMT
The next chairman of the House Agriculture Committee thinks the government should consider releasing idled land for crop production if the acreage is needed to stabilize supplies of corn and other commodities.
Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., who will take over the committee next month, said the next farm bill, due in 2012, could include a provision allowing the Agriculture Department to reduce the size of the Conservation Reserve Program in case of crop shortages.
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Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:32:00 GMT
Production climbed to 15.47 billion pounds (7.2 billion kilograms) from 15.07 billion in November 2009, the USDA said today in a report. The dairy herd rose 0.3 percent to 9.121 million head from a year earlier, while the average cow produced 1,696 pounds of milk during the month, up 2.3 percent, the department said. For the full story click here.
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Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:48:00 GMT
The November milk production report was released on Friday by USDA. Production continues to show a Year-Over-Year increase. The full report can be obtained by clicking here. The actual data can be accessed from our dataset by clicking here.
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Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:07:00 GMT
Corn prices climbed above $5 a bushel last Friday as reports of a disappointing U.S. crop
proliferated, delivering an unexpected hit to already-tight global grain supplies.
As harvest results trickle in field by field across the U.S. Midwest, many farmers are reporting
that yields down from last year. This has repercussions in nations such as China, where grain
supplies are closely monitored. China is the second-biggest consumer of corn after the U.S.,
and a potentially crop-damaging frost in its northeast agricultural region triggered Friday’s
move above the $5 mark.
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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:25:00 GMT
USDA’s Farm Service
Agency (FSA) today announced
that the next two public meetings of
USDA’s Dairy Industry Advisory
Committee will be held September
23-24 and October 12-13, 2010,
both at USDA headquarters.
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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:10:00 GMT
US cheese production
during July totaled 882.3 mil. lbs., up 4.7% from July
2009, USDA’s, NASS reported Thursday.
Cheese production during the first
seven months of 2010 totaled 6.013
bil. lbs, up 2.8%t from the first 7 months of 2009. Cheese production in the two
leading states moved in opposite
directions during July. WI’s
July cheese output totaled 221.7 mil. lbs, down 0.6% from
July 2009. In contrast, CA’s July
cheese production, at 188.4 million
pounds, was up 12.8 percent from
July 2009.
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Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:07:00 GMT
US District Court
Judge Christina Reiss, in a decision
issued Monday in a dairy antitrust
case, granted some defendants’
motions to dismiss claims but denied
motions to dismiss other claims.
The case dates back to October of
2009, when a class action, antitrust
lawsuit was filed on behalf of Northeast
dairy farmers against Dairy
Farmers of America (DFA) and
Dean Foods Company. Dairy Marketing
Services (DMS), a DFA affiliate,
and HP Hood were also named
in the lawsuit.
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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:39:00 GMT
Idaho’s dairy industry increased milk production by 5.3 percent in July, a rate that enabled the
state to surpass New York as the nation’s third leading milk producer. For more detail click here.
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Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:52:00 GMT
RMA has announced revisions to the the Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy Cattle insurance plan, approved by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Board at its August 12 meeting. For more detail click here.
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Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:11:00 GMT
The USDA’s fourth public antitrust workshop will be held Friday in Fort Collins, CO, focusing on the meat industry. For a complete agenda, click on the following.
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