HA NOI Recent increases in milk prices may be encouraging more farmers to raise dairy cows, although the volatile nature of the dairy industry still poses risks, especially to small households. The price of milk has increased three times this year, from VND5,000 per kg at the beginning of the year to VND7,200 at present, and domestic supplies of fresh milk are not keeping up with demand. Local dairy farmer Hoang Huu Diem said the two companies were vying with each other to purchase fresh...

Commercial farmers have also assisted in setting up the venture which aims to provide a training facility for agriculture students, commercial and emerging farmers, as well as farm workers from all over the African continent. Providing skills and training The project provides a training and research facility for agriculture students, commercial and emerging farmers, as well as farm workers. Cape to benefit from dairy farming initiative. We want the dairy to serve local communities, produce...

Will she keep enough body condition through the winter to rebreed next year? How old is the cow? Is her mouth sound so that she can harvest forage and be nutritionally strong enough to reproduce and raise a big calf? At what age do cows usually start to become less productive? Proper cow culling will reduce the chance that a cow carcass is condemned at the packing plant and becomes a money drain for the entire beef industry. Will she keep enough body condition through the winter to rebreed...

About 95 percent of Kaua i s cattle industry there are an estimated 120 ranchers on-island is devoted to Mainland export. On the Kaua i cattle industry, Ching said it has received a boost as the sale of sugar lands give way to more cattle ranches. Cattle facility to help small ranches. The facility, which was opened in May and was officially blessed yesterday in the presence of 40 ranchers and county officials, will allow Kaua i s small ranches to sell, weigh and load their animals from a...

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is putting the kibosh on the increasingly popular milk labels that say dairy cows were not treated with artificial growth hormones. The move surprised Wawa inc., which just last week joined the rush of retailers and milk processors that say their milk will not be produced with the aid of artificial growth hormones, which are used to boost production. Wawa's label says that the farmers it buys raw milk from have pledged not to use rBST, or...

Rutter's Dairy began the process to make its milk growth-hormone free nine months ago when it had its milk suppliers sign affidavits ensuring that no hormones would be implemented into a cow's diet. Growth hormones are used by some farmers in cows to guarantee that they are producing the maximum amount of milk at all times. After the nine months it took to clear all the paperwork that proved that the milk is hormone free, Rutter said, his company began labeling and advertising its milk as...