Milk News

Good evening, I'm Dion Cheney.And I'm Nicole Winters, thanks for joining us.The low price of milk is making hard for local dairy farmers to make a profit...But today they had a chance to voice their concerns.News 12's Jennifer Hudspeth has more about why these farmers are asking for help.Bob and Rose Zoubek have owned their dairy farm for close to ...

Fonterra proposes paying its Australian farmers - who are contracted as suppliers, rather than as members of the Fonterra cooperative - more this season than it is offering farmers at home.

Allbee met earlier this week with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Allbee says Northeast dairy farmers are being paid less for their milk than what it costs to produce it.

JOE TIRY milks 55 cows in the gentle hills of Wisconsin. His father was a dairy farmer.

The biggest dip was for rib-eye steak, which plunged from $9.95 per pound in April to $8.57. Prices paid to livestock and dairy farmers have been dismal this year and consumers are beginning to see the effect in the form of lower prices for meat and dairy products.

Noting that other countries are showing no signs of reducing their export subsidies, USDA has announced the initial round of allocations under the Dairy Export Incentives Program for the period July 1 through June 30, 2010.

The European Union says it will buy and store butter and skimmed milk powder until next February to shore up tumbling prices.

The recession has created a surplus of cows and milk for dairy farmers across the country, which is good news for your grocery bill.

Governor David Paterson applauded U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for responding to his request to introduce legislation that would provide additional assistance to New York dairy farmers, who continue to struggle with milk prices below the cost of production.

A recent story in our Monday Advance section's Farm & Garden pages profiled local dairy farmer Ron Holter and his Holterholm Farms in Jefferson .

Six months after the drop in milk prices, Roosevelt and Curry county dairy owners are still trying to wait out the slump.

The Australian Fodder Industry Association is concerned about the knock on effects of low milk prices.

Czech dairy farmers took to the highways Monday morning to bring the nation's traffic to a snail's pace for two hours.

HUNDREDS of jobs will be created and secured after the Scottish government doled out a 3.9million grant to a dairy co-op. First Milk are to build a new creamery in Campbeltown, Argyll, keeping 100 people and 42 dairy farms in work.

Fonterra has cancelled its supply contract with a Tasmanian dairy farmer who faces animal cruelty allegations.

The Boston Globe reports that organic milk sales have plunged this year. The Globe says sales are expected to drop 15% in 2009 compared to 2008.

Wisconsin farmers received an average price of $11.60 per hundredweight for their milk in May, $7.50 less than in May 2008, the National Agricultural Statistics Service reported.

Bill Kettelkamp holds Tanner Rosdail, son of another local dairy farmer, as he shuts off the flow of milk during a protest in which the farm dumped some of its milk in protest of low milk prices on Sunday.

When Joseph Pasquerilla argued that Dean's Dairy Products Co. should get Brookfield Local School District's milk contract, he had not seen the bids tendered by Dean's and Turner Dairy Farms Inc.

Dino Giacomazzi, whose great-grandfather started the Giacomazzi Dairy in Hanford, Calif., in 1893, said he had no choice but to sell 100 cows, or 11 percent of his herd, in the past four months.