8 Nov 2024
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Benchmark milk prices plummet

Milk union begins free supply to poor labourers

The Agriculture Department announced the April Federal order Class III benchmark milk price at $13.07 per hundredweight, down $3.18 from March, $2.89 below April 2019, and the lowest Class III price since May 2016.

Dairy industry calls for help

Agriculture responds to uncertain future

Just as dairy farmers throughout the country are having to dump their milk, the National Milk Producers Federation and the International Dairy Foods Association announced in a joint press release Monday that they have submitted a request for assistance to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, concerning the devastation to dairy producers and dairy processors from the COVID-19 outbreak.

Why New Zealand’s own A2 milk company is so good

Why New Zealand

In a decade-long stock market performance race, featuring perennial listed favourites Amazon, Apple and Netflix among a field of over 1500 global heavyweights, who would have predicted that it would be a niche Kiwi milk company that would end up topping the podium?

‘America’s Dairyland’: Wisconsin’s farmers see bleak future

Regulations can be

Collapsing prices, the rise of mega farms in warmer states and fluctuations in demand have led to a spate of bankruptcies Dominic Rushe in Wonewoc, Wisconsin  @dominicru  A cow stands in a barn at the Lake Breeze Dairy farm in Malone, Wisconsin. Photograph: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Goodman family has been milking cows in Wisconsin since […]

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