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A Murrah buffalo at the Lakshmi Dairy Farm in Punjab set a record of 26.335 kg (58.06 lb) of milk in the 2016 National Livestock Competition and Expo. [3] In Brazil, this breed of buffalo is used for production of both meat and milk. Murrahs sell for a high price. [4] [5] Among Indian buffalo breeds, Murrah is noted to have the highest milk ...
It was changed to the current name in 2006 when the business merged with longtime dairy producer Niagara Milk Producers Cooperative, Inc. of Niagara Falls, New York. [4] [5] Upstate Niagara Cooperative acquired Bison Foods Company of Buffalo in 1983, a producer of cottage cheese, sour cream, chip dips and yogurt. [1]
Dairy is a significant part of the agricultural output of New York state. New York ranks forth out of the fifty states in dairy production. The state's nearly 4,000 dairy farms annually produce over 15 billion pounds of milk. [1]
These purchase prices are set high enough to enable dairy processors to pay farmers at least the support price for the milk they use in manufacturing these products. The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 1501) mandated a support price of $9.90/ cwt , effective through December 31, 2007, when the program by law was scheduled to expire.
Agriculture is a major component of the New York economy. [1] As of the 2012 census of agriculture, there were over 35,000 farms covering an area of 7 million acres (28,000 km 2) which contributed $5.4 billion in gross sales value and $1.2 billion in net farm income to the national economy.
While intensive animal farming can produce large amounts of meat at low cost with reduced human labor, [10] it is controversial as it raises several ethical concerns, [11] including animal welfare issues (confinement, mutilations, stress-induced aggression, breeding complications), [12] [13] harm to the environment and wildlife (greenhouse ...
It uses between 20 and 33% of the world's fresh water, [81] Livestock, and the production of feed for them, occupy about a third of the Earth's ice-free land. [82] Livestock production contributes to species extinction, desertification, [83] and habitat destruction. [84] and is the primary driver of the Holocene extinction.