AgMoos In-sight

08/20/2025

EDITORIAL: This time it’s Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Ben Luján of New Mexico blocking forward progress in the Senate By Sherry Bunting, Farmshine, Aug. 15, 2025 EAST EARL, Pa. – Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson has been busy. He recently held a Pennsylvania Ag Republicans webinar, then hosted his 7th annual Ag Summit in Pleasant Gap on Aug. 11, before heading to Ag Progress Days Aug....

Covering Ag since 1981. The faces, places, markets and issues of dairy and livestock production. Hard-hitting topics, market updates and inspirational stories from the notebook of a veteran ag journalist. Contributing reporter for Farmshine since 1987; Editor of former Livestock Reporter 1981-1998;....

08/15/2025

By Sherry Bunting The June and July Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) Statistical Uniform Prices (SUP) are the first “blend price” reflections of the new milk pricing rules that took effect June 1, revealing a shift in the balance of things. Orders with more Class I sales have so far seen benefits, while Class III-heavy regions in the Midwest feel the squeeze....

By Sherry Bunting The June and July Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) Statistical Uniform Prices (SUP) are the first “blend price” reflections of the new milk pricing rules that took effect June …

07/20/2025

Dairy checkoff: ‘If we focus on whole milk, we miss these market optimizers’ Really?...

Dairy checkoff: ‘If we focus on whole milk, we miss these market optimizers’ Really? At the 2025 Pennsylvania Dairy Summit, Paul Ziemnisky, DMI’s head of wellness, innovation, and business de…

07/20/2025

Details shared on DMI’s Milk Molecules Initiative

Paul Ziemnisky reported that DMI has implemented the Milk Molecules Initiative, or MMI, which focuses on the functional benefits in milk and uses their proprietary AI model to accelerate research a…

05/29/2025

By Sherry Bunting, Editorial in Farmshine May 30, 2025 While the landmark MAHA Commission was working on its initial report released May 22 on the chronic childhood disease crisis, Pennsylvania state lawmakers have been assembling a “Healthy PA Package” that includes five bills – H.B. 1130, 1131, 1132, 1133, and 1134 – that would either ban or require specific labeling for foods containing certain artificial dyes and preservatives; provide statutory definitions for terms like “ultra-processed foods,” designate August as Wellness Month, and provide incentives for cover crops based on their use in producing healthier crops using less chemical herbicide…...

By Sherry Bunting, Editorial in Farmshine May 30, 2025 While the landmark MAHA Commission was working on its initial report released May 22 on the chronic childhood disease crisis, Pennsylvania sta…

04/27/2025

(Excerpts from Sherry Bunting's Milk Market Moos column in the Apr. 25 and May 2 Farmshine. Get the full Farmshine delivered weekly at a low subscription rate at farmshine.net) The current dairy trade is ignoring the calendar composition on key reports -- adding to bearish sentiment forcing key dairy commodity prices lower and pushing mailbox milk prices well below year ago, despite the earlier 2025 forecasts that had suggested a raise this year for dairy farmers....

http://agmoos.com/2025/04/27/signal-what-signal-is-anyone-looking-at-the-actual-calendar-and-real-costs/

(Excerpts from Sherry Bunting’s Milk Market Moos column in the Apr. 25 and May 2 Farmshine. Get the full Farmshine delivered weekly at a low subscription rate at farmshine.net) The current da…

04/20/2025

Happy Easter.
He is Risen, just as He said.

04/16/2025

By Sherry Bunting, Farmshine, April 4, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – We need to be the change-makers that our students and farmers both need. We need to bring back the ability to offer milk fat choice in schools, including nutrient dense whole milk – which, by the way, is just 3.25 to 3.5% fat,” said Krista Byler, a witnesses during the hearing by the U.S....

By Sherry Bunting, Farmshine, April 4, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – We need to be the change-makers that our students and farmers both need. We need to bring back the ability to offer milk fat choice in…

02/22/2025

By Sherry Bunting, Farmshine, Feb. 21, 2025 (with updates after print publication) WASHINGTON – Upon reading the Feb. 14 USDA news release about the 78 terminated contracts totaling $132 million, as identified in the ongoing review by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), we noticed only 10 examples were given, totaling only $4.21 million. Reports had surfaced about Conservation Districts receiving project or program termination notices via email, and a few farmers communicated their concern about frozen funding for grant reimbursements....

By Sherry Bunting, Farmshine, Feb. 21, 2025 (with updates after print publication) WASHINGTON – Upon reading the Feb. 14 USDA news release about the 78 terminated contracts totaling $132 million, a…

02/22/2025

USDA photo By Sherry Bunting, Farmshine, Feb. 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate confirmed Brooke Rollins 72-28 on February 13th as the 33rd Secretary of Agriculture, and the second woman to lead the USDA. On Friday, Feb. 14, she was sworn in and addressed a gathering of over 400. Rollins pledged to bring greater efficiency to the USDA to better serve farmers, ranchers and the agricultural community....

USDA photo By Sherry Bunting, Farmshine, Feb. 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate confirmed Brooke Rollins 72-28 on February 13th as the 33rd Secretary of Agriculture, and the sec…

02/13/2025

‘Farmers will be at the table’ (Rollins confirmed Ag Secretary)

Brooke Rollins — now on Feb. 13, 2025 confirmed as the next Secretary of Agriculture and the second woman ever to lead the USDA — stands to be sworn in for testimony during her confirma…