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News Articles: dairy industry

Dairy cows stand in a field outside of a milking barn at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Animal Disease Center research facility in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024.

Georgia increases testing of its milk supply as bird flu spreads

There has been no detection of the H5N1 strain that infects cows in Georgia, but the new efforts will increase surveillance.

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Holstein cows are seen after being milked at Alfred Brandt's dairy farm, which has been in his family since 1840 and has been affected by the industry's supply chain disruptions created by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Linn, Missouri, U.S. April 28, 2020. Brandt, along with other U.S. dairy farmers, has seen a drop in milk prices and has been forced to dump excess milk as a result of the closure of schools, restaurants and coffee shops. REUTERS/Whitney Curtis

Bird flu risk in Georgia remains low. But state agencies have ongoing plans to manage it anyway

There have been no reported cases of HPAI in Georgia among people or dairy cows since traces of the virus was found in pasteurized milk last month.  

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Good butter should spread easily at room temperature, right? Well, Canadians have been complaining about strangely "hard" butter for weeks.

Baffled Canadians Spread Reports Of 'Hard' Butter

Reports spreading about "hard" butter aren't softening Canadians. One intrepid food scholar, Sylvain Charlebois, thinks he's found the "buttergate" culprit: palm oil fats.

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  • Emma Bowman