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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cresud S.A.C.I.F. y A. (Nasdaq: CRESY, BASE: CRES), today announces results for the first nine-month period of FY 2012 ended March 31, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS Operating income was ARS 501.8 million, a fall of 2.1% as compared to the same period of the previous fiscal year.Net income for the nine-month period was ARS 67.1 million, 52.7% lower than in the same period of 2011, explained mainly by exchange rate differences and higher financial...
Olathe, Kan., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A leading researcher at Kansas State University has been awarded $250,000 from the Center for Animal Health Innovation's (CAHI) Proof-of-Concept (PoC) seed funding program. Tonatiuh Melgarejo, DVM, PhD, an Associate Professor at Kansas State University and the principal investigator, will receive the seed funding to assist in the development of a novel class of natural antibiotics for the treatment of mastitis in dairy cattle. In addition to...
Dairy Farmers of America see Destination Imagination as a valuable partner CHERRY HILL, N.J., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Destination Imagination (DI), a non-profit, educational, after school program where students from kindergarten through college work as teams to solve open-ended challenges, is pleased to have the Dairy Farmers of America providing milk daily for the 8,000 youth participants in Destination Imagination's Global Finals on the University of Tennessee...
Says Talk of Supply Management Already Hurting Dairy Industry Growth WASHINGTON, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Appearing on behalf of the International Dairy Foods Association, Jon Davis, president and CEO of Davisco Foods International, testified today before the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry about dairy provisions in the draft 2012 Farm Bill. Davis explained why his company and others are opposed to including a new program designed to...
Remains Hopeful That Program Will Be Removed Through Action on the Senate Floor WASHINGTON, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jerry Slominski, senior vice president for legislative and economic affairs at the International Dairy Foods Association, issued the following statement on the Senate Agriculture Committee's vote to approve the 2012 Farm Bill and move it to the Senate floor. The bill includes a dairy market stabilization program, first introduced in H.R. 3062, the...
Call for Steps to Grow Jobs, Protect Exports and Strengthen Farm Safety Net While Avoiding Unnecessary Regulations WASHINGTON, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dairy industry leaders today called for the Senate Agriculture Committee to remove a new dairy program that is designed to control milk prices from the draft 2012 Farm Bill and instead focus on providing proven safety-net programs, such as revenue insurance, typically used for other commodities. Miriam Erickson...
GREENFIELD, Ind., April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elanco Animal Health is sponsoring a free mobile app for the dairy industry. Dairy Source is the only app of its kind, offering real-time market prices, industry news, local weather and product information. It can be downloaded for free on iPhone, and Android devices. Dairy Source was designed to give producers and others in the industry access to critical, up-to-date information 24 hours a day, no matter where they are. Market reports...
Got the facts on Milk?, a feature documentary that questions the notorious health claims made by the Dairy Industry, will be broadcast this week in Israel. The film (also known as The Milk Documentary) sheds a completely different light on this staple beverage. Is cow's milk necessary in the human diet, or could it be one of the most dangerous foods publicly consumed? Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 21, 2012 The Dairy Industry has worked diligently to market cow’s milk; claiming the...
Food-borne diseases might soon have another warrior to contend with, thanks to a new molecule discovered by chemists at the University of Illinois. The new antibiotic, an analog of the widely used food preservative nisin, also has potential to be a boon to the dairy industry as a treatment for bovine mastitis. The antibiotic nisin occurs naturally in milk, a product of bacteria resident in the cow's udder. It helps keep milk from spoiling and kills a broad spectrum of bacteria that cause...
Asks Senate Agriculture Committee in Statement to find "Middle Ground" WASHINGTON, March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Connie Tipton, president and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association has submitted a statement for the record to the Senate Agriculture Committee which is holding a hearing today, urging the committee to reject supply management proposals. "Better risk management tools, including margin or other insurance products, for dairy farmers is the correct...
