The California Department of Food and Agriculture, which inspects dairies and tests raw and pasteurized milk monthly, strongly backs the new raw milk standard. The maneuver represents latest round in a struggle between raw milk's avid fans and government food safety and public health officials, who want all milk pasteurized. McAfee said new coliform limit will be impossible for his 350-cow dairy to meet consistently because coliform are so common in the environment and in cows. Raw milk,...

Kaua'i's growing cattle industry yesterday held a blessing to mark the completion of the island's first cattle staging facility. A weeklong test run at the facility recently processed 500 head of cattle for shipping. Search Honolulu Advertiser: Located in Hanama'ulu on 2.15 acres of agricultural land owned by Lihu'e Land co., the facility was built by members of the Kaua'i Cattleman's Association and financed through four grants totaling $52,000 from the Office of Economic Development. The...

FresnoBee.com: Business: Producer assails tougher law on raw milk. Mark McAfee, a founder and one of the owners of Organic Pastures Dairy co., says those bacteria are among "essential probiotic good bacteria" that add to the appeal for those who buy raw milk for health reasons. But the bacteria, which may or may not be pathogenic, also are "good indicators of the level of sanitation at a facility, the cleanliness of the cows," said Stephen Beam, branch chief for milk and dairy foods...

Fifty-four percent of the cattle placed in feedyards last month weighed 700 pounds or more, up from 49 percent in that weight group at that time in 2006. Cattle supplies likely to remain tight, prices strong into 2008. We expect fed cattle prices to remain in the low- to mid-$90s per hundredweight through the rest of the year. Feedyards continue taking in heavier-weight cattle in response to higher feed costs. Continued red ink in the feeding sector will eventually spill over into the...

BANGALORE: The military dairy farms at Hebbal and Agaram - which house over 600 cattle - are in the process of being demolished to make way for hi-tech establishments. Maintenance of these farms, growing fodder, rearing cattle and distributing milk, among other logistical requirements including human resource, have become impossible for the armed forces. The state cooperative will gain a lucrative outsourcing contract of supplying as much as 7,000 litre of milk per day to these...

This when in the past days Topps, a company in operation for nearly 70 years closes its doors and recalls 21 million pounds of ground meat after sickening 30, and Cargil, one of the largest food producers in the US, recalls hamburger after sickening 4 children in Minnesota. This when in the past days Topps, a company in operation for nearly 70 years closes its doors and recalls 21 million pounds of ground meat after sickening 30, and Cargil, one of the largest food producers in the US,...