The January Dairy Market Report is now available. Continued growth in domestic butter and cheese consumption, coupled with further recovery of world prices for skim milk powder and whey, strengthened …
Agri View: Robot Farming
Everett Griner talks about what the mechanical engineers working on robot farming equipment in today’s Agri View. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Let’s Talk …
NMPF Urges Senate Ag Committee to Confirm Perdue as Ag Secretary
The National Milk Producers Federation urged the Senate Agriculture Committee to swiftly confirm former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as the next U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, as NMPF, its 29 member …
Dairy Trade in the Trump Era
by Jim Mulhern,President, CEO of NMPF On his first Monday in the White House, President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order officially abandoning the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This action raised …
Super Bowl Avocados
If you have not invited avocados to grace your Super Bowl party table, you are missing out. Cathy Isom tells you all about the single-seeded fruit that’s expected to be …
NMPF Lauds New House Bill
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) endorsed new legislation introduced in the House of Representatives that would prompt the enforcement of dairy labeling terms, which are increasingly being used to …
Americans Increasingly Indulge in Dairy Fat
Changing American tastes are leading to greater consumption of products with dairy fat. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Let’s Talk Livestock Risk Protection For …
U.S. Dairy Companies Push Back Against Canada’s Protectionist Policies
Group Urges U.S. Governors to Aid in Preserving Export Markets and ‘Consider All Tools at Their Disposal’ The U.S. dairy industry continued to push back against Canada’s protectionist policies that …
California Milk Production
California milk producers had a total of 1.77 million milk cows for December that produced 3.38 billion pounds of milk. Milk production is up 5 percent from November, 2016 and …
Smart Phone App Balances Conservation and Production
By Jan Suszkiw, Agricultural Research Service New mobile phone applications (“apps”) are helping farmers and land managers balance productivity with conservation. Known as the “Land-Potential Knowledge System” (LandPKS), the suite …
EU Dairy Farmers Spray Milk Powder in Price Protest
Dairy farmers from the European Union sprayed milk powder onto a European Council building in Brussels during a protest over dairy prices. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026CIR Agriculture …
NMPF, USDEC Urge Trump Administration Not to Cede Export Opportunities
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) urged the Trump Administration not to retreat from pursuing new trade opportunities in the Pacific Rim, and …
NOW Cost Pistachio Growers $100 Mil
Navel orangeworm (NOW) hit the pistachio crop hard in 2016. Experts estimate NOW cost pistachio growers $100 million total last season. So far, the rare wet winter will help keep …
Agri View: Labor Intensive Crop
Everett Griner talks about strawberries being labor intensive and different to grow in today’s Agri View. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026Let’s Talk Livestock …