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U.S. FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

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Washington | Reuters – The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters. The suspension is another disruption to the nation’s food safety programs after […] Read more
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Dairy farm milk price drops for 2025

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The Canadian Dairy Commission announced Nov. 1, 2024 that a decline in feed prices and the stabilization of other costs on dairy farms across the country means that the benchmark on-farm price for milk will decline by 0.0237 per cent starting in February 2025.
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French farmers fear for dairy herd as Lactalis cuts milk purchases

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Paris | Reuters – Lactalis, the world’s largest dairy company, is to reduce the volume of milk it processes in France, a move it said is aimed at reducing its exposure to international commodity prices but which caused alarm among farmers about a declining dairy herd. Lactalis plans to cut the amount of milk it […] Read more
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Pasteurization may not clear bird flu virus from heavily infected milk

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Reuters – In raw milk samples spiked with high amounts of bird flu virus, small amounts of infectious virus were still detectable after treatment with a standard pasteurization method, researchers said on Friday. The findings reflect experimental conditions in a laboratory and should not be used to draw any conclusions about the safety of the […] Read more
Gery Schrijver, right, of Alberta, Cox Wensink of Ontario and Phillip Vroegh of Nova Scotia were on a dairy producer panel at the 2024 Progressive Dairy Operators symposium.
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Three dairies, three approaches: Land and people are the priorities, say dairy farmers

Large dairy farms find numerous ways to fill labour needs and manage costs

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Dairy farmers who want to expand must first get land and people in place. That was a common theme from a cross-country panel of leading dairy farmers at the recent Progressive Dairy Operators triennial conference in Toronto. Gert Schrijver farms in Stettler, Alta., milking about 300 cows on 1,700 acres. He plans to build a […] Read more

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