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Webster, N.Y. fairlife plant ramping up gradually to full capacity
The ribbon was cut last week at fairlife’s massive new Webster, New York dairy plant, but the milestone wasn’t the beginning of milk processing there. It marked something potentially more significant for New York dairy farmers: the transition toward full-scale production at a plant expected to eventually take in 5 million to 6 million pounds…
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Breeding for components is a strategy that pays the bills
“As my interest in cattle genetics got greater and greater as a teenager, I got this arrogant idea that I wanted to breed this great herd of cows so everybody would know who I was.” So declared Dean Good on July 21 as he spoke of his life with cows at the Chester County Holstein…
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Double whammy hits Pennsylvania, Eastern Corn Belt
JBS ended cattle harvest at Souderton, Pennsylvania Friday, Aug. 14, as expected. What no one expected was Tyson Foods’ abrupt closure of its Joslin, Illinois beef plant the same day. Together, they removed 25,000 head of weekly harvest capacity from a cattle feeding and finishing region stretching from Pennsylvania through the Eastern Corn Belt —…
