NMPF Board Adopt Comprehensive Framework for Farm Bill
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 The NMPF Board of Directors has endorsed a comprehensive dairy policy package for the 2007 Farm Bill. The NMPF proposal, approved at the NMPF Board meeting March 6th, calls for significant improvements in current federal farm programs, while also featuring some new elements."After a year of discussion and deliberation, I am pleased that our members have come together to support dairy farms of all sizes in all regions of the country, building on the policies that work now, while considering new paths as well," said Jerry Kozak, President and CEO of NMPF. More ...
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CWT Accepts 343 Herd Retirement Bids Totaling Over 1 Billion Pounds of Milk
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 The next herd retirement effort conducted by Cooperatives Working Together will remove more than one billion pounds of milk, or 0.6% of the nation's dairy supply, in an effort to help strengthen and stabilize farm-level milk prices. USDA projects a 2.3 billion pound increase in milk production for 2007 and this action by CWT effectively reduces that projection by 45 percent. More ...
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NMPF Opposes Opening Canadian Border to Breeding Animals
 NMPF, in comments submitted March 9th to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is opposing the resumption of cattle exports from Canada for breeding or herd replacement purposes. Due to ongoing concerns about the effectiveness in Canada of the 10 years-old ban on feeding mammalian tissues to cows - the key firewall intended to prevent the spread of BSE, or mad cow disease - NMPF told the USDA that it would be imprudent to allow live animal traffic to resume. More ... |
NMPF Asks For More Time to Submit Comments on FDA Cloning Assessment
| NMPF, along with other food industry associations, has asked the Food and Drug Administration for an extension on the comment period on the FDA's draft risk assessment on animal cloning. The comment period is set to close on April 2nd. More ... |
EU Agency Asked To Rule on Cloned Meat and Milk
| The nation's largest fluid milk processor, Dean Foods Co., said recently it won't purchase milk from cloned animals. "Based on the desire of our customers and consumers, Dean Foods will not accept milk from cows that have been cloned," according to a Dean statement that was first made public on a food-oriented blog and was later confirmed by the Dallas-based dairy processor. More ... |
CERCLA/EPCRA Legislation Reintroduced in Congress
| NMPF is again backing efforts to legislatively clarify that animal manure is not meant to be regulated by Superfund laws.New legislation was introduced this month in Congress to stipulate that manure is not a toxic waste product subject to the CERCLA/Superfund rule. More ... |
EPA Plans Exemption for CAFO Emissions from Superfund Reporting
| According to Administrator Stephen Johnson, the Environmental Protection Agency is developing a proposed regulation exempting concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) from mandates to report their air emissions under Superfund laws. More ... |
National Dairy Leaders Conference Last Call
| This is the last call to attend the National Dairy Leaders Conference held April 15 - 17, 2007. The meeting will take place at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA, located about 45 minutes East of Portland, OR. More ... |
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