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FUNDRAISER TO HELP TO KY'S DAIRY/AGRICULTURE TORNADO VICTIMS
I am working with the Ky Dairy Development Council (KDDC) to host a fundraiser to help farmers who suffered damage from the recent tornadoes in Kentucky.
As most of you are aware, west Ky was hit hard by the tornadoes. What most people don't know is that the agriculture community, especially the Amish & Mennonite suffered the loss of family members, livestock, homes, barns, feed, stored commodities, fencing and so much more. This happened all across the state, not just in west Ky. Counties that suffered agriculture losses include Christian (Pembroke/Oak Grove), Hopkins, Marshal, Logan, Warren, Monroe, Hart, Breckinridge, Ohio, Barren, Shelby, Spencer, Marion, Taylor to name a few. Hundreds, if not thousands of farm families have suffered extreme loss.
We have set up a fund that will directly benefit Amish & Mennonite/Dairies & Agriculture. The fund will also help other dairies in the state that were affected.
The Plain community does not use insurance nor do they accept government funds such as FEMA. They are self funded when disasters like this happen. In talking with some of the elders this morning, they said that the destruction is extensive and they will have a hard time covering the needs of the Plain community.
KDDC is a non profit organization (501c3). 100% of the donations will go directly to those in need.
To make a donation, write the check to KDDC.
Send to:
KDDC/Schlappi
554 Davenport Rd
Harrodsburg, KY 40330
If you have issues with processing the card, email me at schlappifarms@gmail.com or call/message me and we can manually run the card.
Thank you for your support of Ky's dairy industry and the Plain agriculture community.
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Make Your Hotel Reservation for the 2022 Georgia Dairy Conference
by December 27th!!
Take advantage of special room rates for the 2022 Georgia Dairy Conference by making your reservations before Monday, December 27, 2021 Don't wait - our block is almost full!!
The Savannah Riverfront Marriott is offering room rates for those attending the Georgia Dairy Conference from Saturday, January 15, until Wednesday, January 19, at $139.00/room for single and double occupancy rooms. There will be an $10 parking fee per day for our group at the hotel.
Individuals are requested to call the hotel at 800-285-0398 for reservations or follow this link.
Please mention that you are with the “2022 Georgia Dairy Conference” when making your reservation to ensure that you receive the discounted room rate.
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Proponents say a raw milk option for Georgia residents would help local dairies
Dairies are experiencing dire financial straights, causing an interim study for the Georgia General Assembly to consider making raw milk as legal as peaches. It comes in a year that has seen year-over-year declines continue in the number of dairy operations, continuing a long trend of farmers deciding to exit the dairy business.
Since 2003, the U.S. has lost more than half of its licensed dairy operations, now just shy of 32,000 dairy operations.
Georgia is experiencing that decline.
The state currently only permits raw milk sales for use as pet food. The legislative study committee could have the General Assembly considering the sale of raw milk for human use by this time in January 2022.
Before that occurs, however, Peach State lawmakers will have to work out regulations and standards to prevent any raw milk sold in Georgia from carrying harmful bacteria. That’s the role pasteurization plays and the step raw milk production skips. Read more here>>>
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Made in Georgia: Making cheese is a ‘labor of love’ for this business owner
By C.W. Cameron / For the AJC
Cheese making is a science as well as an art, and it helps if the cheesemaker comes to it with a passion for the product. It also is a business — a way to turn fluid milk into a product that has more of a shelf life.
Schick’s choice of cheeses to make came with a history. Her family had been friends with a French family for many years, and when the friends would come visit, they would bring French chocolate, perfume and cheeses. “It was our introduction to the world of fine cheeses,” she said. “And, when we started the creamery, I knew I wanted to make a Camembert-style cheese.”
A love of Humboldt Fog from California’s Cypress Grove Creamery, with its inclusion of edible ash, gave her the idea to make Little Stone Mountain, lightly dusted with vegetable ash. Then, there was Red Top Mountain, dusted with smoked paprika, and Black Rock, crusted with coarsely ground black pepper and named for Black Rock Mountain State Park.
Meanwhile, in 2016, Keith Kelly and his family bought a working dairy in Newborn, one that had been operated by the Johnston family since the 1940s. They named it Rock House Farm, and initially concentrated on developing a market for their fluid milk, producing creamline whole milk (pasteurized, but not homogenized, so a cream layer rises to the top), buttermilk and award-winning chocolate milk. Read more here>>>
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Progressive Dairy Editor Dave Natzke
The USDA’s implementation of higher hay prices used in feed cost calculations will have an impact on the largest number of dairy producers participating in the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program.
Applied both retroactively to January 2020 and through the end of the current program in 2023, the change from using a 50-50 blend price of all alfalfa hay and Premium dairy-quality alfalfa hay will add about 20 cents per hundredweight (cwt) to the monthly feed cost calculated each month.
That, in turn, will decrease the monthly income over feed cost margin by a similar amount and increase indemnity payments to eligible producers by an equal value in effected months.
2020-21 hay payments calculated
A USDA notice to state and regional Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices provides DMC hay cost calculation adjustments for each month retroactive to January 2020. The additional payment rate per cwt column shows the additional payment amount for that month the dairy operation will receive. Read more here>>>
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Cows are not the new coal — here's why
BY JOSEPH W. MCFADDEN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR, The Hill
The United Nations COP26 global climate summit announced a commitment to cut 30 percent of global methane emissions by 2030, and as with any other major announcement about climate change, a torrent of strong opinions and misinformation has spread to identify the next biggest scapegoat — or in this case, cow.
The reason for climate-centered pandemonium is that beef and dairy cattle emit methane from the enteric digestion of feed they consume and the manure they create. The annual Inventory of U.S.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks Report, prepared by the EPA, states that 27 percent of methane emissions in the United States are derived solely from enteric fermentation by livestock; albeit, less than 10 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions come from crop and animal agriculture in the United States. Models estimate that the global warming potential of methane is 25 times greater than carbon dioxide, in the short term — but methane and carbon dioxide emissions are approximately 10 percent and 80 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions respectively in the United States.
Yes, all sectors — including agriculture — need to reduce emissions, but a dangerous narrative has emerged, supported by the livestock investor network FAIRR Initiative, that "cows are the new coal." Read more here>>>
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December 2021 GA Milk Review
In this issue:
- USDA Opens 2022 Signup for Dairy Margin Coverage, Expands Program for Supplemental Production
- December Blend Prices Projected as Highest of the Year
- Make Your Hotel Reservation for the 2022 GA Dairy Conference by Dec. 27
- Join us in Savannah for the 2022 Georgia Dairy Conference January 17 - 19!
- Dixie Dairy Report
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We are honored to announce that the Honorable Saxby Chambliss will speak during our opening session on Monday, Jan. 17! Chambliss served in the US Senate for two terms and, before that, served four terms in the US House of Representatives.
During his tenure in the Senate, he served as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee; the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; the Senate Rules Committee; and his leadership and experience on homeland security and intelligence matters earned him an appointment to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Saxby was first elected to Congress to represent Georgia's 8th District in 1994. Throughout his legislative career, he has been recognized numerous times by the public and private sectors for his work on agriculture, defense, budget and national security issues. For more information about the conference, visit our website: https://www.gadairyconference.com/ #2022gdc
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When Members Fail to Speak Up, Organizations Suffer
By Farrah Newberry, GA Milk Producers
The saying “speech is silver but silence is golden” is believed to date back to ancient Egypt. It means that in some circumstances the less you say the better it is. Personally, in a room full of strangers, I'm often discrete because it is the more appropriate thing to do. I speak when I am confident in my thinking and understanding of a matter- which can take time.
Lack of communication from membership can be a huge problem for many non-profit organizations. There are many reasons members choose not to speak up, but I believe that most people tend to stay quiet because of three reasons:
- They fear retaliation or the possibility of looking stupid
- They do not believe that the organization wants or values feedback
- They are apathetic to the future of the organization
An organization with little input from membership will have less impact on change, will spend more money than necessary to fulfill its objectives, and will eventually lose support from its membership over time. Read more here>>>
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The Class I mover debate continues
By Scott Brown, University of Missouri, Hoard's Dairyman
Discussion continues surrounding the best approach in calculating the Class I mover to determine the price for fluid milk. The months of June through November 2020 highlighted that the Class I mover calculation in place before the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill (OLD) could provide a very different result relative to the Class I mover calculation included in the 2018 Farm Bill (NEW).
Differences of more than $4.50 per hundredweight (cwt.) in some months have motivated the current calls for change. The USDA Food Box program had a larger impact on cheese prices . . . relative to other dairy product prices during this period . . . and pushed Class III prices higher, creating a portion of the difference in the OLD versus NEW Class I mover formula.
A debate about the “correct” formula is worthwhile, but uncertainty about future Class III and Class IV prices make it impossible to know the “right” formula. Historical data illustrates this uncertainty well. The fact that the November 2021 Class IV price exceeded the Class III price for the first time in over two years highlights some of this uncertainty. Read more here>>>
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DairyFax October November December, 2021
UGA Dairy Extension Office
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Opportunity to participate an important research project
- Georgia Dairy Youth and Dairy Dawg Updates
- To improve next year review this year
- Capturing heat events using AMS during the voluntary wait period to track resumption of cyclicity in cows
- Milk replacer feeding frequency has different effects on calf growth in different seasons
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Top 20 DHIA high herds by test day milk and fat production & low herds for SCC score
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Kraft will literally pay you not to make cheesecake this holiday season
By Rachel Treisman, GBH News
Supply-chain issues are the gift that keeps on giving this holiday season. And the latest unlucky recipient appears to be none other than everyone's favorite bagel topping.
Panic over a cream cheese shortage started earlier this month when The New York Times reported that delis across the city were scrambling for schmear. And it grew last week when popular chain Junior's Cheesecake said it was periodically pausing production of its signature product, citing insufficient supply of the key ingredient.
Food distributors and company spokespeople say various factors are to blame, from a labor shortage and scarcity of packing supplies to sustained demand as a result of more people eating breakfast at home and baking with cream cheese (two particularly pandemic-friendly pastimes).
And where some people see a national debacle, others see a (somewhat cheesy) marketing opportunity.
Kraft Heinz, which owns the Philadelphia brand, is offering to reimburse thousands of holiday shoppers $20 each for desserts they bake or buy that don't contain any cream cheese. Read more here>>>
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Dairy Risk Management Tools Remain Vital Heading into 2022- Supplemental Dairy Margin Coverage Applications Open
By Daniel Munch, Associate Economist, American Farm Bureau Federation
Ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to impact dairy farmers. In a previous dairy article, we touched upon the network of pandemic-related market conditions that triggered Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) payments for the seventh consecutive month. Unsurprisingly, shrunken margins primarily linked to high feed costs persist and have, yet again, triggered DMC payments for the eighth, ninth, 10th and 11th consecutive months, through this past October.
The Dairy Margin Coverage program provides a level of risk protection to dairy producers when milk prices are low and or feed costs, on average, are high. This voluntary program provides payments when the calculated national margin falls below a producer’s selected coverage trigger. The margin is the difference between the average price of feedstuffs (the price of hay, corn, and soybean meal) and the national all milk price. Read more here>>>
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TO ADVERTISE: EMAIL AD AND CONTACT INFORMATION TO FARRAH NEWBERRY at gamilkproducers@gmail.com
WANTED: DHI Cooperative has a position to fill in the North Central Georgia area for a DHIA FIELD SERVICE TECHNICIAN.
• Responsibilities include data collection on area dairy farms during milking time.
• The schedule is somewhat flexible and the hours are typical for dairy farm work
• Travel is part of the job and reliable transportation is required, mileage is paid
• Applicants should be comfortable with computers and software and have good communication and organizational skills.
Looking for calves for 200 head calf barn with auto feeders in Arcadia
FL: Please call Brian 863-444-0060
Delaval meters, Germania entrance and exit gates with tailboards and indexing tail, Muller plate cooler, receiving jar, filter housing and lowline stainless pipeline. Serious inquiries call 864-617-5911, Iris Barham
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Expanding or looking for top quality herd replacement?
Available at all times:
Fresh two and three year old's and total herds; Also springing heifers and heifers of all ages. Service age bulls with top genetics available all year round. All different breeds and crossbreds also available. Last two loads of fresh two and three year olds Holsteins went on the trucks averaging 115 lbs and 112 lbs! One load to TN and the other to Wisconsin.
Contact:
Les McCracken
608-214-6484. Cell
608-879-2653. Fax
Seeking fulltime farm worker at heifer replacement farm in Eatonton, GA. If interested, please contact Mike Rainey at 706-473-0730.
Seeking Beef and dairy crossed bullcalves/heifers bottled or weaned. Please contact Victoria Rowland at 404-922-0938 or 423-946-5869
Will Raise Heifers for GA Dairy Farms: Hello we are located in Southern Illinois and have an abundance of pasture and cheap feed available looking to contract with a dairy to grow heifers for them, out location offers mild climate and we are just 558 miles from Montezuma Ga. Please contact 817-528-6645 very reasonable daily rates.
For Sale- DeLaval 84 Vacuum Pump on Stand, Oil Reclaimer, 10 HP- 3 Phase Electric Motor. New Bearings, New Oil Seal, New Belts. $2000
For sale - Please contact Archie Felder for more information at 803-682-3426:
- Dairy Tech Bay Pasturizer - $4,000
- Tidenberg Hydraulic Hoof Table (like new) - $5,000
- Claas Silage Choppers - 960 1875 cutterhead hours, 4WD, 600 orbis, HD300 PU - $180,000
- Koomin John Deere Corn Header adapter for Claus Silage Chopper Used - $6,000
WANTED: Peter's Cattle Co. will buy any dairy, beef, and cross, bottle or weaned, bulls, heifers or free martins. Pick up weekly 7 days a week. Chris- 470-255-8515
Bull Calves WANTED: Competitive pricing with 6 day a week pickup. Brandon Mason Cattle Company 912-632-4490
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