Market Talk: Checkoff Launches Online Database To Help Farmers Find Grant Opportunities. “The dairy checkoff’s new online tool is designed to help dairy farmers and their advisors more easily identify grants and funding opportunities for conservation and on-farm improvements. The Funding Opportunities Database, available through the Dairy Conservation Navigator, organizes federal, state and […]

This is upsetting. I am glad I gave up eating animal products. This is probably so we can’t count the bird flu, so it will “disappear”.

From the link:

“This year, Dr. Steven Bernstein, a researcher at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, was planning to study the health of farm workers, particularly in the dairy industry in northern New Hampshire and Vermont.
The idea, he said in an interview with the Bulletin, was ‘to develop and test some interventions to improve what we call the social determinants of health: their ability to access fresh food, their transportation, physical activity, exercise, etc. This is a group that has a pretty tough life in a lot of ways. They work really hard, and most of them come from Central America.’”
https://www.nhpr.org/health/2025-08-06/trump-biomedical-research-cuts-dartmouth-hitchcock-medical

#NH #dartmouth #DairyFarms #immigrants #GoVegan #NIH #vermont

#China's #MilkSurplus illustrates the unintended consequences of #Beijing's #FoodSecurity-driven efforts to boost its #DairySector by touting consumption and encouraging expansion. #HighCosts and the legacy of an #adulteration scandal in 2008 that killed at least six children and hospitalized thousands, meanwhile, limit its export opportunities.

China #DairyFarms swim in milk as fewer babies, slow economy cut demand
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-dairy-farms-swim-in-milk-as-fewer-babies-slow-economy-cut-demand/ar-AA1qSrn8?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01

Night, all! 3am alarm for 4:15am milking. And what we call dry-off is tomorrow. It's the worst activity in the dairy every fortnight, as it measurably increases the amount of shit that has to be hosed away after milking, and involves both someone pregnancy-checking the animals - 40ish tomorrow - with the well-known hand up the cow's backside technique, and intra-udder application of preventive antibiotics for them (that will be my job).

Dairy is *so* glamourous!

#farming #dairyfarms

Most #UK #DairyFarms ignoring #pollution rules as #manure spews into #rivers

Exclusive: 80% of #Welsh dairy farms inspected, 69% of #English ones, 60% in #Scotland and 50% in #Northern Ireland breaching regulations
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/19/most-uk-dairy-farms-ignoring-pollution-rules-as-manure-spews-into-rivers
#ToryPoliciesInAction #EnvironmentalProtectionEnforcement #Gove #UnderfundingPublicServices #ProfitBeforeEnvironment #England #Wales

#Cheese #HolyCheesus #USDA #DairyFarms #Hoarding #SubsidizedDairy

I have had this, decades ago; it's really an amazing product, very salty, but the best for mac and cheese.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/government-cheese?utm_medium=atlas-page&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3G2yOySBPCVCJP1i5VZgtCqOl-s-I7X5sMH_hr9c2YSu3X7aYcmjP-7ZQ

How Regulation Came to Be: Pasteurization (17th in series)

I’m re-pubishing this series with permission of the author. Could have made a good book.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/3/25/1076932/-How-regulation-came-to-be-Pasteurization

#HowRegulationCameToBe #Regulation #History #Pateurization #FoodSafety #LouisPasteur #Science #GermTheory #Winemaking #Sanitation #Tuberculosis #Cholera #Chicago #Milk #DairyFarms #USPublicHealthService