You're in the supermarket,walk to the dairy aisle, and you're about to pick up your milk when. Corn is the primary feed used for cows, so with the price of corn up, the price of milk has risen too. Lulibelieves this Celuosic process of creating ethanol is not only a good solution to our energy concerns, but he says it could be the only way to keep milk prices from rising even higher. Luli says he believes we'll finally start to see milk prices drop once non-food based ethanol production...

How much the vendor (the grocery or convenience store, for example) charges for that gallon is out of the milk board's control, according to Doug Eberly, chief counsel for the MMB. According to Eberly, those minimum prices include everything from the incentive price dealers offer to farmers to get the farmer to sell to that dealer (as opposed to as many as 29 other dealers in the state that are competing to buy milk to create the fluid product) to the costs for transportation and packaging...

Agence-France Presse and CanWest News Service Published:Sunday, November 11, 2007 A case of bovine tuberculosis has been discovered on a single farm in British Columbia, prompting more than two dozen farms in this province and Alberta to be placed under quarantine to keep the disease from spreading. Agence-France Presse and CanWest News Service Published:Sunday, November 11, 2007 A case of bovine tuberculosis has been discovered on a single farm in British Columbia, prompting more than two...

The proposal would require labeling for beef, lamb, pork and goat products and differentiate completely domestic products from completely foreign products. Cattle producers have long desired the bill to stave off competition from foreign suppliers, believing American customers will choose American beef over meat from other countries. Its board includes cattle producers from around the state, focused "to protect and promote the future of the Wyoming livestock and ranching industry. Enzi...

Topics include industry issues; consumers, products and markets; cow-calf nutrition; management practices; reproductive management; animal health; cattle selection and genetics; range and forage management; and markets and marketing. Terry Klopfenstein of the University of Nebraska will use the past 40 years of research to help cow-calf producers put together a production system that is best for their circumstances. Late registration fees increase, but registration will also be available...

Notterman said he, along with other local food producers, presented his beef products in 2003 to Statehouse cafeteria management and staff and talked to them about what he does and how he does it. It helps the local economy and consumers know where the food comes from and support neighbors," said Anson Tebbetts, deputy secretary of agriculture. Notterman said the results of his 2007 survey were more encouraging than the first, and that data indicated people were noticing local food...