Tag Archives: dairy

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

U.S. Hunger Games: Dairy lawsuits, Beef shortages, Carbon Credits increase consumer costs! Sugarcane means Cow Shit don’t stink?

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May 2023 is National Beef Month.  Here is yet more incomplete list of links to recent news reports, and video reports, affecting the cattle/beef/dairy supply in the United States.

Did you know that nine states have more cows than people? Apparently the most recent U.S. Census of Agriculture data claims they are Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says feeding your cows hemp might save you money.

Beef prices expected to remain high, due to shrinking supply!

Companies are trying to find a way to profit off carbon credits and the dairy industry!

CALIFORNIA: A vegan Los Angeles high school student is suing the local school district, as well as the federal USDA, claiming she was not allowed to promote her favorite plant based ‘fake-milk’!

IDAHO:  East Idahoans raising cows on their one acre ‘homestead’;

ILLINOIS: Soybean operators claim they are investing into getting more soy for your livestock feeding needs.

IOWA: Court orders feedlot to change its handling of cow crap, or effectively be shutdown!

KANSAS: Kansas State University partly blames high cattle prices on inefficient feeding of cows!

LOUISIANA: Impact Fusion International claims its new sugarcane waste feed means your cow’s shit won’t stink!

MISSOURI: University of Missouri says feeding cattle through the Winter can kill farmer’s profits, suggests strip-grazing on sorghum to reduce costs.

MONTANA: Big Sky ranchers ranchers forced to adopt the new USDA/Tyson ‘climate smart’ “Brazen Beef” operation (which could raise the cost of beef in the grocery store)?

NEW YORK: Coca-Cola to build big dairy operation, employ 250 people!

OKLAHOMA: Man arrested for buying more than 1-hundred cows with a ‘rubber’ check!

OREGON: Big dairy operation back in action after major refit.

TEXAS: New dairy operation in Amarillo.

U.S. Hunger Games: WHERE’S THE BEEF? BLAME SCAMS, MUTILATIONS, GHOSTS, RUSTLERS & CLIMATE!

IDAHO TO BUILD LARGEST DAIRY RESEARCH CENTER IN THE U.S.! ANOTHER WHITE ELEPHANT?

Idaho, U.S.

Hunger Games: Idaho to build largest Dairy research center in the U.S.! Another White Elephant?

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“We are building the nation’s largest research dairy in Rupert, Idaho. That doesn’t happen if we don’t have dairy processors come to the table and say, ‘We are going to support the producer community and put money toward this project.”-Rick Naerebout, CEO of the Idaho Dairymen’s Association

It is set to begin dairy ‘research’ in 2024, the University of Idaho’s taxpayer and food industry funded Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (CAFE, part of a larger CAFE Discovery Center): “Collectively, we can move mountains. From the Idaho Legislature to Redox and others in agriculture, it truly is a remarkable partnership that will pay widespread dividends.”–Michael Parrella, Dean of the University of Idaho’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, 07FEB2023

The new CAFE is being funded by a combination of Idaho taxes and food industry donations.  The latest donation came from an Idaho company called Redox Bio-Nutrients, a half-million dollars! The CAFE is expected to cost at least $45-million to complete (keep in mind that the cost keeps going up, in 2022 one report said $22-million), and supposedly will be the largest dairy research center in the United States!

Redox Bio-Nutrients is a 30 years old company specializing in providing farmers with “with high-quality products that help growers efficiently and sustainably produce food.”

In May 2022, controversial (see below) dairy products maker Chobani donated $1-million to the CAFE.

According to a 2018 Farm Bureau report, even before the CAFE project began the Idaho Dairymen’s Association committed $2-million to the project, and Idaho state taxpayers were forced to fund at least $15-million!

In 2022, the CAFE Discovery Center Feasibility Study was published, revealing that one of the economic motivations for the larger CAFE Discovery Center is actually tourism, yet even with that it will not be a money maker, requiring yearly estimated funding to the tune of at least $260-thousand: “Further more, the pro forma assumes that all exhibit costs will be borne by sponsoring organizations in exchange for brand awareness. All this is feasible but will require a concerted capital campaign among Magic Valley area agri-businesses.”

But wait, there is more!  The University of Idaho claims its new multi-million dollar dairy research center isn’t about solving any dairy shortages, but rather solving the ‘problem’ of a glut of dairy products!  The federally mandated university says that most of the country’s dairy production is now concentrated in just two states; overpopulated California, and sparsely populated Idaho, and even so dairy output has skyrocketed with fewer cows: “The dairy industry currently produces 59 percent more milk with 64 percent fewer cows since 1944….  ….there has been a movement of dairy cows to the western United States with the greatest increases occurring in California and Idaho.”

In 1889, the University of Idaho was directly created by a federal ‘land-grant’, originally to act specifically as an agricultural research facility for the U.S., but in recent decades has become a ‘space-grant’ college as well.

Hunger Games/Operation Jupiter: WHY IS THE U.S. MILITARY SO INTENT ON PROTECTING BATS, GLOBALLY?

Borderland Hunger Games January 2023: U.S. CITIZENS GO HUNGRY WHILE MIGRANTS GET FIRST DIBS?

Hunger Games January 2023:  ‘Land Grant’ UNIVERSITY of IDAHO OFFERS FOOD PRESERVATION TIPS, FOR A PRICE, WHILE OTHER UNIVERSITIES, and Social Media, OFFER THE SAME ADVICE FOR FREE!

My Immigrant Idaho September 2021: Dairy producer CHOBANI TO HIRE AFGHAN REFUGEES, PAR FOR THE COURSE FOR BIDEN, AND A TURKISH OWNED COMPANY!

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

Corporate Incompetence: Dairy company continues to produce products with toxins, despite repeated fines

“A stained history means the company has problems in its professional ethics, so we shouldn’t trust it anymore.”-Fang Zhouzi, blogger

Milk products containing aflatoxin continue to be found on store shelves, despite the company’s claim that they destroyed all their tainted dairy products.

Aflatoxin builds up in your body and causes liver cancer, it can not be eliminated by pasteurizing!  It can be the result of cattle feed that’s been stored for too long.

The company involved is Mengniu Group, in China. It has a history of producing contaminated dairy products. In 2009 the company was involved with the melamine contamination incident (melamine is used mainly in construction, but it turns out that dairy companies have been using it to artificially increase their products’ protein levels. It was discovered that in the U.S. the FDA had no standards for melamine used in food).

“If the company carried out checks and didn’t find a problem, then their case is suspect.”-Wang Dingmian, Guangzhou Dairy Association

Over the past weekend, several Chinese customers were suspicious of the milk they bought and had it tested. It all turned out to be contaminated with aflatoxin.  This happened after the Mengniu Group said they destroyed all tainted dairy products.

Business/Economics, Idaho, Opinion, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? Dairy industry asking government for new industry “welfare” programs, as state governments slash and burns Food Stamps for families

The national average for a gallon of milk is about $4.00.  Many people in the dairy business say they’re losing money because people can’t afford to buy the product. They want the Federal government to create new industry welfare programs to bail them out.

In Idaho it’s estimated that Idaho dairymen lost $700 million in 2009.  Even Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson has jumped on the band wagon calling for more corporate welfare for dairymen.  But, you know what, I buy milk at the Pocatello, Idaho, Fred Meyer, and sometimes at the Chubbuck, Idaho, WalMart, and I’ve always paid less than $3.00 per gallon (usually no more than $2.50).

I have relatives in California who complain about the nearly $4.00 per gallon milk price there, but I haven’t seen that price in Idaho.  So why are Idaho Dairymen complaining?

The real reason dairy products, as well as other food products, are seeing a drop in sales is because the average consumer doesn’t have the money!

Maybe the Federal government should increase Food Stamps pay outs by greatly increasing the maximum income cutoff.  After all, the original purpose of Food Stamps was to subsidize the agriculture industry, by providing lower income people with money to buy food.  That’s right Food Stamps was originally created to support Farmers!

Instead it looks like individuals will get nothing, while “industries” get increased direct welfare!