TheDairySite Newsletter - 17 April 2009

Friday 17th April 2009

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Welcome to this week's newsletter

EDITORIAL - A Week for Fraud and Cartels

In a landmark judgement, the Italian Supreme Court this week confirmed a decision of a national Court concerning the evasion of extra levies in the milk quota payment scheme. The court decided that this amounted to the crime of fraud against EU financial interests.

Meanwhile, the UK Food Standards Agency announced a crack down on food fraud. This new initiative is aimed at recycled by-products, false labels, meat sold of dubious origin and unsafe, out-of-date, products.

In America, relief has come to packers and renderers as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that â€œcattle material prohibited in animal feedâ€ (CMPAF) is deemed to be non-hazardous solid waste and thus can be disposed of in landfills. An alternative opinion could have proven very costly.

Animal disposal was also under discussion in Ireland. The Irish Farmers Association called for immediate change to the rules and regulations for fallen animal disposal in order to remove the "exorbitant costs" and break up, what they believe to be, the "collection and rendering cartel operating this service".

Adam Anson

This Week's Feature Articles

We have 5 new features this week:

Nitrogen Availability from Liquid Swine and Dairy Manure
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have compared predictions for nitrogen availability from dairy and pig manure in soils with practical results. They found generally good agreement but the variable with the greatest effect was the method of manure application, writes Jackie Linden for TheDairySite.

Aspects of Asian Dairying
In the past, Asians have not been large consumers of milk, but things are changing, writes Stuart Lumb for TheDairySite.

Transition Period Management and Nutrition
Most of the metabolic diseases of dairy cows - milk fever, ketosis, retained placenta (RP), and displacement of the abomasum - occur within the first 2 wk of lactation. This feature was taken from the proceedings of the High Plains Dairy Conference. A full link to the proceedings is provided below.

The Strategic Use of Ruminally Protected Amino Acids in Dairy Nutrition
The rumen is arguably the most important organ in the ruminant digestive system, writes Adegbola T. Adesogan, University of Florida as part of the proceedings from the University of Florida Dairy Extension 20th Symposium.

USDA Feed Outlook April 2009
World 2008/09 corn trade is projected up 0.7 million tonnes this month to 76.1 million, says Allen Baker, Edward Allen, and Heather Lutman in the USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) Feed Outlook report for March 2009.