Industry News

The good news is that dairy farmers received more money from the market on their July milk production. And those signing up for the highest level of Tier 1 coverage under the 2019 Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program are ensured indemnity payments for a seventh consecutive month. However, with July milk prices climbing faster than feed costs, the July DMC indemnity payment will be the smallest of the year, and it could be the last.

Update Highlights

• Canada paying dairy farmers $1.75 billion in trade compensation
• July DMC margin, indemnity payment to be announced on Friday
• USDEC: On Labor Day, share how dairy means jobs
• September Class I base price down 4 cents
• July 2019 dairy cow slaughter picks up
• Dairy margins started August stronger
• What’s in your mailbox?

Digest Highlights

• Continue using current Form I-9
• CoBank: U.S. farmers taking brunt of tariff wars
• Update: Trump signs Chapter 12 bankruptcy bill raising debt limit
• Pressure mounts for EPA nitrate study review
• Waters of the U.S. ruled unlawful
• ‘Cows and Climate’ video series
• Chobani appoints McGuinness as president
• Pennsylvania ‘Adopt a Cow’ program brings dairy farms to elementary schools
• Minnesota offers beginning farmer tax credit

As of Aug. 25, 17,677 dairy operations had signed up for the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program. That number represents about two-thirds of the 26,832 dairy operations with established milk production history and about 61% of the milk production history.

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The Food Animal Initiative, a collaboration between the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine, is hosting the first International Symposium on Precision Systems and Data Analysis in Animal Agriculture Sept. 9-10.