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Feb 21, 2012

Meet Bel Brands USA's project manager

We met Francine Moudry, the planning and construction manager for the Bel Brand USA plant that is coming to Brookings, S.D. We were impressed. Previously she was director of operations for the company’s Leitchfield, Kentucky, plant. She has a farm background. When you meet Moudry ask her about working on her grandparents’ vineyard in France. Probably like many of you, she was so young when she started driving the tractor that her grandfather had to put wood blocks on the pedals so she could reach them. Learn more about Bel Brands.

 

Doing well in Iowa

Roy and Shiloh Johnson, Parkersburg, Iowa, say they had good years in 2010 and 2011 and things are going well for them in 2012. Read more.

 

MN Milk Producers of Year – they’re really good

You can tell at a glance that the Ron and Marvin Miller, Minnesota Milk Producers of the Year, probably operate a really good dairy. On a brochure about their farm, they list the cows as their business partners. Read more.

 

SD governor is rounding up cows

“We’re on a cattle round up,” says S.D. Gov. Dennis Dauguaard, who was recruiting dairies at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif. Check out a video of the governor by Dairy Herd Management.

 

Iowa consider raw milk bill

The Iowa legislature is considering another bill legalizing raw milk. It is "180 degrees in the wrong direction,” says Mark Truedeal, Iowa Dairy Foods Association lobbyist, of the proposal. But Francis Thicke, the Fairfield dairy farmer who ran unsuccessfully for Iowa agriculture secretary in 2010, is telling lawmakers that European studies show that it less likely that children will suffer from asthma or hay fever if they drink raw milk. Read more.

 

MN counties select dairy princess

Dairy associations in Brown and Nicolett counties in Minnesota select a young woman from Sleepy Eye as their 2012 county dairy princess..Read about her.

 

Poet introduces low-fat DDGS

Poet has a new dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) that it says can be fed to dairy cattle at a higher inclusion rate than traditional DDGS. Dakota Gold Low Fat contains just 5% fat. Learn more.

 

Not all your fault – it’s in the Holstein genes

Why are Holsteins harder than other cattle to get bred? It’s in their genes – the same ones responsible for their high milk production potential, according to USDA ARS research. Read more.

 

Don’t miss meetings

Mar. 13-14 – Nebraska State Dairy Association, Norfolk. Learn more.

Mar. 27-29 – Central Plains Dairy Expo, Sioux Falls. Learn more.