Sentences with phrase «conventional dairy farmer»

Just dropping in to offer up myself to answer any questions you may have of a conventional dairy farmer.

In 2008, like all other conventional prices, the price for organic feed for dairy cows and other livestock shot up so quickly — without milk processors and marketers paying farmers more to make up the gap — that for the first time in history, conventional dairy farmers were making more than organic (conventional milk prices were at unprecedented highs)!

Not exact matches

Organic dairy processors had recruited new organic dairy farmers to add capacity and pushed hard for them to transition to organic production before June 2007, when an organic regulatory provision that eased whole herd conversion from conventional to organic production was set to expire.

Aside from basic fruit and vegetable consumption, on the rise thanks to an increase in farmers markets and efforts to whittle down the number of food deserts in the U.S., nondairy milk is the leading plant - based category, and it's taking a toll on conventional dairy.

The multiyear agreement, which was signed in June, notably ensures the growth of financial support to organic dairy farmers transitioning from conventional to organic farming methods.

I've done the research, and I learned from organic dairy farmers on the Stonyfield Farm Tour, and everything points to the fact that organic dairy is far superior nutritionally to conventional.

In the conventional dairy system, farmers receive about $ 12 per hundredweight of milk, less than their operating costs.

Even organic dairy farmers are attracting buyers with steeply discounted prices, sometimes selling it to conventional suppliers at a great loss.

Researchers from the University of Guelph followed farms that converted from conventional to organic dairy farming over five years to see if it really is viable and better for farmers; the answer appears to be yes.