| Feedin' A Nation (Parody Song)
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| SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Thanks to the support of hundreds of South Dakotans, dairy farm families presented Feeding South Dakota with a donation of more than $12,500 at a benefit concert on March 26. Dairy farmers invited the public to "Be Our Guest" at a Phil Vassar concert at the annual Central Plains Dairy Expo for a $10 donation to Feeding South Dakota. Donations will be used to purchase dairy foods to stock food banks across the state. "Thank you to everyone who donated to this program, and to dairy farm families for making it possible," said Jim Dawson, eastern operations manager for Feeding South Dakota. "It is especially important to receive funds to purchase milk and dairy products when they are needed. Because of the perishable nature of these products, we don't often have them in stock at our distribution centers." The “Be Our Guest” concert events have been held for three years, generating a total of nearly $29,000 in donations to Feeding South Dakota. “We’re happy to help Feeding South Dakota with this program to provide nutritious dairy products to South Dakota families in need,” said Allen Merrill, dairy farmer from Parker, South Dakota. The “Be Our Guest” concert also featured the debut of a new video starring dairy farm families from South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska. Titled “Feedin’ a Nation,” it is a parody of the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” and highlights dairy farmers’ commitment to producing wholesome dairy products and also their support of local food banks. The video is now posted on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/MidwestDairy. |
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| Corn ETF Continues Plunge
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| by Eric Dutram April 01, 2013 | Comments : 1
Commodities have had a rough ride over the past year, as a strong dollar has dulled the potential of many natural resources. However, we have also seen some solid performances out of a few commodities in the time frame as well. In particular, ETF investors have seen some solid trading in the Teucrium Corn ETF ( CORN ) . This ETF remains the only pure play fund to target corn, and is thus a great proxy for the commodity’s performance. Thanks to a big drought in 2012 and fears over a global food crunch, CORN was a top performer in the latter half of 2012, adding over 25% in the time frame. While the bulk of the gains came in June and July of the time period, CORN managed to hold firm for the rest of the year and stay at an elevated level. |
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| Drought in NZ could cause inflation for number of Pacific countries
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| WELLINGTON, New Zealand --- The drought in New Zealand could cause food inflation in a number of Pacific countries.
A drought has been declared over the entire North Island and parts of the west coast of the South Island. An Agri-economist with ANZ, Con Williams, says food inflation has picked up generally in Pacific countries over recent months.
He says food isn’t a lot of Pacific countries’ total imports from New Zealand, but for specific sectors, like dairy products, it could have quite an effect. |
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| Chinese infant formula maker wins approval for New Zealand dairy plant
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| WELLINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Infant formula giant Yashili International Holdings revealed Tuesday it has received approval to become the latest Chinese player to invest in the New Zealand dairy industry.
Company chairman Zhang Lidian announced in a statement to the Hong Kong stock market that New Zealand's Overseas Investment Office (OIO), which considers all foreign investments valued at more than 100 million NZ dollars (83.96 million U.S. dollars), had granted consent to Yashili's plans to build a milk processing plant.
The company reportedly has plans to investment 230 million NZ dollars in building the plant just south of Auckland. |
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| SD town courts dairy farmers
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| By: Anna Jauhola, Forum News Service
CORSICA, S.D. — California dairy farmers are listening to calls from South Dakota to grow the industry.
The Corsica Development Corp. recently hosted a few people from California interested in starting dairy operations in the Corsica area. Jamie Rexwinkel, president of the development corporation, said they visited about the process of locating a dairy farm in the area, looked at land, toured the town and its amenities, and looked at water needs.
The operation would house between 500 and 1,000 cows, Rexwinkel said.
“I don’t know if it’s promising,” he said. “Really, nothing’s promising until the shovel is in the ground.”
Gov. Dennis Daugaard and state agriculture officials visited the World Ag Expo in California in February to sell dairy farmers on expanding in South Dakota. |
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