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| Apr 3, 2025 | Food & ag groups blast ‘destabilizing’ tariffs, seek exemptions: ‘We urge the White House to reconsider’ | Food and farming organizations have joined a long queue of industry groups urging the Trump administration to rethink blanket tariffs or exempt key products in a bid to limit damage to US consumers and “iconic American manufacturers.”
In an... |
| Jan 6, 2025 | Enjoy Dairy Without the Discomfort with The Dairy Alliance’s Lactose-Free Solutions | Offers Simple Tips to Welcome Dairy into Your Life ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, January 6, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Lactose intolerant? No problem! Being lactose intolerant doesn’t mean saying goodbye to dairy. The Dairy Alliance, a nonpro... |
| Dec 17, 2024 | The Looming Crisis: Immigration Policy and the Agricultural Economy | The agricultural landscape in the United States is a delicate ecosystem. It thrives on the labor of many, particularly immigrants. Yet, looming changes in immigration policy threaten to uproot this fragile balance. The specter of mass depor... |
| Dec 17, 2024 | The Ripple Effect: How Immigration Policy and Dietary Guidelines Shape America’s Future | In the United States, two seemingly unrelated topics are stirring the pot: immigration policy and dietary guidelines. Yet, both have profound implications for the economy, health, and social fabric of the nation. As the political landscape ... |
| Dec 16, 2024 | National Politics | Trump migrant deportations could threaten states’ agricultural economies | Anita Alves Pena, a Colorado State University professor of economics who studies immigration, noted that many agricultural employers already can’t find enough laborers. Without farm subsidies or other protections to make up for the loss of ... |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Testing the Waters: The Urgent Need for Bird Flu Surveillance in Dairy Farms | The dairy industry is facing a silent threat. Bird flu, a virus typically associated with poultry, has found its way into the world of dairy. This is not just a problem for farmers; it’s a potential crisis for public health. The USDA has st... |
| Dec 6, 2024 | USDA orders nationwide testing of milk for bird flu to halt the virus | Veterinarians, farmers, scientists and academics have been calling for nationwide milk testing for months, said Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, who led the efforts.
“It’s another step in the right ... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | Health | As bird flu spreads on dairy farms, an ‘abysmal’ few workers are tested | The CDC and USDA have advised dairy farms to monitor for the virus in cattle and humans, but testing remains voluntary, except for herds moving across state lines.
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| Jun 27, 2024 | Coalition of Leaders Praises House Action to Advance U.S. Leadership in Fight against Global Child Malnutrition | WASHINGTON, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A broad coalition of global food security leaders, nutrition advocates, former senior government officials, national security leaders, farmers, suppliers, and producers have issued the following sta... |
| May 10, 2024 | Biden admin will pay dairy farmers for help containing bird flu | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
As bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle are raising concerns about potential human infections, the Biden administration announced Friday nearly $200 million in funding to help contain the spread.
Why it... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | U.S. orders cow testing for bird flu after grocery milk tests positive | The Agriculture Department is ordering the dairy industry to test milk-producing cows for infections from highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI H5N1, before they're moved between states, federal officials announced Wednesday.
USDA's mo... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Prairie Farms is Most Awarded Company at NMPF Cheese and Yogurt Contest | L to R: Matt McClelland, Toby Probst, Frank Doll, Bryan Henrichs, Don Mackinson, Gretl Schlatter, Craig Meng, Pat Schroeder, Luke Haywood, Tony Graves, Hannah Lansing, Robert Horst, Matthew Lansing, Ashley Davis, Sam Schwoeppe, Amber Selman... |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Dairy farmers are running out of chances to kill the terms ‘oat milk’ and ‘soy milk’ | WASHINGTON — Almond milk — not almond beverage, almond drink, or even almond juice — appears here to stay.
There’s few issues in the food world that generate as much vitriol as the debate over what to call nut, oat, and other plant-based al... |
| Jul 4, 2023 | Dairy Farmers’ Letter to the FDA: “It is Baseless, Preposterous and Absurd” to Refer to Animal-Free Dairy as Milk | The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has written a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging it to ban the word ‘milk’ in the labeling of synthetic food products, arguing it violates the federal dairy Standard of Iden... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Everytable lands $25m, eFishery reels in $20m, Joyful Ventures’ alt-protein fund | This week, prepared meals service Everytable raised new funding along with cultivated fish startup Bluu Seafood and aquatech company eFishery. Outside of funding, Nextbite is facing a lawsuit over its May layoffs and Joyful Ventures launche... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | Dairy farmers urge FDA to crack down on animal-free dairy milk labels: ‘It is preposterous and absurd to call this milk’ | The whey protein (β-Lactoglobulin) that foodtech startups such as Perfect Day are making with microbes in fermentation tanks is bio-identical to the bovine version. But if you mix it with water, oil, sugar, gums, vitamins and minerals and p... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | FDA says plant-based milk labels should indicate nutritional differences | Dive Brief:
Plant-based milk alternatives can be labeled as “milk,” but the FDA recommends that these beverages place nutritional disclosures on their packages so consumers can compare their nutritional quality with that of dairy milk, acco... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | FDA draft guidance on plant-based milk provides hook for opportunistic lawsuits, says attorney: ‘It’s actually quite shocking’ | Long-awaited draft guidance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on labeling for plant-based milks has been slammed by the milk lobby for its “circular logic” and criticized by plant-based advocates who say it “undercuts the admin... |
| Feb 15, 2022 | Califf confirmed as FDA chief in close vote, ending protracted vacancy | The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Robert Califf as commissioner of the FDA, filling a position that had remained vacant for more than a year despite the agency playing a leading role in the nation's response to the COVID-19 pandem... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | NMPF Executive Committee Member Stresses Sustainability at House Ag Hearing | February 3, 2022
NMPF Board of Directors member and California dairy producer Melvin Medeiros told a House Agriculture subcommittee today that dairy farmers have made significant sustainability gains and stand ready to serve environmental s... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | Dairy Urges U.S. to Emphasize Trade in Congressional Hearing | National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) First Vice Chairman and U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) board member Simon Vander Woude encouraged the U.S. government to prioritize expanded market access opportunities for U.S. dairy exports at ... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | American farmers are losing export sales as over two-thirds of containers leave California ports empty to rush back to Asia for reloading | A farmer milking a cow. Angela Weiss/AFP
A survey found 22% of foreign agriculture sales have been lost due to transportation issues.
Ships skip smaller US ports, leaving with empty containers after clearing the logjam to rush back to Asia.... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | The World Unites Against “Plant Butter.” Will We? | Strange bedfellows, indeed. But also a reason for hope.
In Case You Missed It, the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils of the Codex Alimentarius, which, among other things, sets international food standards, in October decided not to take up a... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Dairy Associations Urge Additional White House Action on Ports Crisis | The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) joined several other organizations urging the Biden administration to take additional steps to alleviate the ongoing ports crisis in a letter sent today... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Idaho Dairy Producer Testifies Before Congress on USMCA Enforcement Importance | National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) Executive Committee member Allan Huttema said USMCA enforcement is essential for the agreement to reach its potential for U.S. dairy farmers in testimony today at a U.S. Senate Finance Committee hea... |
| Apr 24, 2021 | Dairy Market Report – April 2021 | Dairy Market Dairy Management Inc. R E P O R T Volume 24 | No . 4 April 2021 DMI | NMPF
Domestic dairy-product use is increasing with signs that the country is making Overview another run at moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, with growin... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Dairy Market Report: March 2021 | Dairy Management Inc.
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Effective risk management continues to be essential for dairy farmers, even as
Overviewprice forecasts for 2021 have somewhat improved on robust domestic dema... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Dairy Industry Applauds USTR Action to Address Canadian TRQ Violations | The U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) applaud today's announcement that the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) will initiate official consultations with Canada to examine the administration of... |
| Nov 3, 2020 | USTR Review of Indonesia Trade Arrangement Secures Benefits for U.S. Dairy | The U.S. dairy industry commended the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for using its review of Indonesia's Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) status to hold Indonesia accountable for issues that had threatened the smooth flow of U.S. d... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | CEO's Corner: A Crisis Should Bring Opportunity – Not Opportunism | There's an adage applied often in politics that 'in the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity.' And while no one would ever wish for what's happened in dairy markets over the past several months, this crisis does provide opportunitie... |
| Apr 16, 2020 | How Covid-19 is impacting various points in the US food & ag supply chain | Editor’s Note: Jeff Caldwell is content marketing manager at Lessing-Flynn, a marketing and advertising agency based in Des Moines, US. Previously, he was editor of Successful Farming and the High Plains Journal. The views expressed in this... |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Dairy industry continues to deal with coronavirus ‘gut punch’ finding new ways to absorb excess supply | “I think it’s fair to say that the pandemic has been a gut punch to American commodity prices across the board for American agriculture but probably most significant for the dairy industry and dairy farmers,” US Dairy Export Council (USDEC... |
| Jan 24, 2020 | Milk, beef representatives urge seafood industry to join fight against plant-based incursion | National Milk Producers Federation President and CEO Jim Mulhern offers a simple piece of advice to the seafood industry regarding the wave of new plant-based analogs making their way into the market with an aggressive marketing message tha... |
| Jan 23, 2019 | 48% of consumers buy plant-based and dairy milks, reveals IPSOS survey | In the survey, conducted as the dispute over labeling conventions in the category heats up, 48% said they had purchased both plant-based and dairy milks, 47% said they had only bought dairy milk, and 5% said they only bought plant-based m... |
| Apr 26, 2018 | FDA commissioner weighs into plant-based ‘milk’ debate | In a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) - who introduced a bill (the Dairy Pride Act) that would prohibit the use of dairying terms to describe plant-based products – said that federal standard... |
| Mar 23, 2018 | NMPF hails victory over plant-based 'milks' in spending bill, PBFA says claims have 'zero legal significance' | An agriculture appropriations sub-committee report from summer 2017, which the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) claims was voted on as part of this week’s overall spending package, includes the following paragraph:
“The Committee... |
| Jan 4, 2018 | NMPF ups ante in plant-based dairy labeling debate... but is the FDA listening? | Jenny Berrien, VP of marketing for Kite Hill – which makes almondmilk-based ‘cheeses,’ ‘yogurts’ and other products – was speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after the NMPF wrote to the FDA and the California Dept of Agriculture to accuse t... |
| Aug 29, 2017 | If FDA permits terms such as almondmilk, its standards of identity are 'meaningless,' says NMPF | In its 20-page commenton the GFI petition (which was filed in March), the NMPF argues that many brands are already flagrantly violating standards of identity while the FDA turns a blind eye:
“The current marketplace is characterized by ... |
| Mar 16, 2017 | Kite Hill weighs into plant ‘milk’ debate: ‘Do electric cars not get to call themselves cars because they don’t have a combustion engine?’ | Brand owner Lyrical Foods makes almond milk from nuts and water, and then cultures it using proprietary cultures and enzymes to separate it out into solids and liquids, just as traditional cheese makers do.
Its products (almond milk cheeses... |
| Feb 10, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: First Ag Data Lawsuit in Poultry Industry, Agribusinesses Write to Trump, AgriProtein to Roll Out 100 Insect Farms, more | Poultry Growers File AgData Lawsuit against Tyson, Perdue, More
A group of poultry integrators have filed suit against major poultry producers alleging that the companies collected and shared data from farmers through a third-party resource... |
| Jan 17, 2017 | Miyoko’s Kitchen CEO weighs into plant-based dairy labeling debate: It’s time to ditch ‘outdated and arcane’ standards of identity | Despite attempts by dairy farmers - and several members of Congress - to persuade the FDA otherwise, Americans are not confused by terms such as ‘vegan cheese,’ or ‘soymilk,’ argues Miyoko Schinner. Indeed, they are far more likely to be ba... |
| Jan 6, 2017 | Will the plant-based ‘milk’ debate prompt a wider probe of federal standards of identity? | Where indeed, says Good Food Institute policy director Nicole Negowetti, who says the one thing all sides can agree upon is that there has been a frustrating lack of clarity from the FDA as to its position on non-dairy ‘milk,’ which plant-b... |
| Dec 19, 2016 | Is it legal to call plant-based beverages from nuts, seeds and legumes, ‘milk’? | The answer is an emphatic ‘NO’ according to a letter from 34 lawmakers (and supported by leading dairy associations) urging the FDA to enforce the standard of identity for ‘milk,’ which (enshrined in 21 CFR § 131.110), which describ... |
| Beyond Offsetting: How Organic Valley is Leading the Charge in Carbon Insetting and Putting Agriculture on a Climate-Smart Path from Field to Plate | (BPT) - Agriculture, particularly dairy, often gets blamed for its greenhouse gas emissions. Across nearly all agricultural commodities, bolstered by more than $3 billion in USDA climate-smart funding, there is increasing momentum to reduce... |
