The 2022 World Dairy Expo Breed Sales once again offered consignments from the Showring and top genomic heifers. Buyers from around the world vied for the many world-class cattle and embryos sold during the 55^th event. Following are the highlights from the four breed sales that took place last month at WDE.   

Top of the World Jersey Sale: Tuesday, October 4

The Top of the World Jersey Sale took place on Tuesday, October 4 in The Tanbark. Topping the sale was JX Pine-Tree Stoney 2770 {4}-P-ET, consigned by Pine-Tree Dairy of Marshallville, Ohio, and was purchased by Semex and Vierra Dairy, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, for $18,500. The second-high seller of the night was rights to an IVF session from Pine-Tree 2271 Feder 2718-PP-ET, also consigned by Pine-Tree Dairy of Marshallville, Ohio. Four J Farms of Tulare, Calif. purchased this for $4,000. The 16 lots averaged $3,480 with a sale total of $55,700.

World Ayrshire Event Sale: Tuesday, October 4

The World Ayrshire Event Sale was also held on Tuesday, October 4, and was topped by a pick of five March 2023 calves from Margot Precious sired by Libby’s Lochinvar. This lot was consigned by Kurt Wolf and Mike Maier of Epworth, Iowa and was purchased by Luck-E Holsteins, Hampshire, Ill. for $11,000. The sale’s 14 consignments totaled $67,475 with a sale average of $4,820.

World Premier Brown Swiss Sale: Wednesday, October 5

The World Premier Brown Swiss Sale filled the Sale Pavilion on Wednesday, October 5 following the completion of the International Brown Swiss Show and wrapped up the Word Brown Swiss Conference. Consigned by Dennis Mashek – Hilltop Acres, Calmar, Iowa, the high-selling lot was Hilltop Acres J Promise-ETV, who sold for $28,500 to STgenetics of Navasota, Texas. The second highest lot, La Rainbow Sweet Cheerful-ETV, consigned by Brian Lammers of Botkins, Ohio, was purchased by Pine-Tree Dairy, Marshallville, Ohio for $20,500. A total of 33 lots were sold, for a sale total of $280,650 and averaging $7,995 per lot. The buyers represented 9 U.S. states and Canada.

World Classic ’22 Sale: Thursday, October 6

The World Classic rounded out a week of successful breed sales with a sale average of $39,373 for 53 lots, totaling gross sales of $2,086,750. Topping the sale, for a price of $170,000, was JX FB Verstappen {6}-ET, a Jersey heifer calf purchased by Vierra Dairy, Hilmar, Calif. and consigned by FB Genetics, Dumas, Texas. The second-highest selling lot, FB World Classic, was also consigned by FB Genetics, Dumas Texas, and was purchased by STgenetics, Navasota, Texas, for $105,000. Buyers represented 10 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.

Serving as the meeting place of the global dairy industry, World Dairy Expo brings together the latest in dairy innovation and the best cattle in North America. The global dairy industry will return to Madison, Wis. for the 56^th event, October 1-6, 2023, when the world’s largest dairy-focused trade show, dairy and forage seminars, a world-class dairy cattle show and more will be on display. Download the World Dairy Expo mobile event app, visitworlddairyexpo.com or follow WDE on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Spotify, Instagram or YouTube for more information.

Fonterra Co-operative Group, a company that exports dairy from New Zealand, said on Friday that it was selling its Soprole dairy operations in Chile to the Peruvian company Gloria Foods in a series of deals worth about $641.42 million.

The sale is part of Fonterra’s new plan to focus on growing its business in New Zealand while phasing out its overseas milk pools and paying down debt.

The process to split off its Chilean operations, Soprole, started in April of this year and will be done through “a number of transactions” that include selling shares in a Fonterra holding company, the dairy exporter said.

Fonterra CEO Miles Hurrell said in a statement, “Soprole is a very good business, but it doesn’t depend on New Zealand milk or expertise.”

“We have decided to sell Soprole to Gloria Foods and have finished the process of divesting.”

In a statement to Peru’s securities regulator, Gloria said that the deal was real. The company said that the deal would be paid for with $210 million in cash and some amount of debt payments that were not said.

The deal depends on regulatory approval and the start of a tender process in Chile for the shares of Soprole that Fonterra does not already own.

($1 = 921.5000 Chilean pesos)

Reuters reported on Friday that New Zealand’s a2 Milk Co Ltd chairman David Hearn will step down from the board of the dairy giant at its next annual general meeting in November 2023.

Since March 30, 2015, when Hearn became chairman, a2 Milk’s stock price has gone up more than 1,200%, and the company’s revenue has gone up by 832%.

Hearn has worked for the company since February 2014, and he will finish his job at the end of next year, said the company that makes dairy products.

The whole board has reached the same conclusion. The company said that Pip Greenwood, who is a non-executive director, “has both the skills and, more importantly, the experience to take over from David Hearn at that time.”

Greenwood joined the dairy company more than three years ago. He is also on the boards of companies like Westpac New Zealand, Spark New Zealand, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, and Vulcan Steel.

The official website of law firm Russell McVeagh says that Greenwood also worked there for more than 10 years as acting chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer.

Hearn said about his retirement, “I know we’ve been through some rough times lately, but it’s been an amazing opportunity to be a part of the growth of this amazing business.”

A new study from Germany found that dairy cows fed industrial hemp made milk with THC, a compound that makes people feel high. This could change how hemp could be used as an ingredient in animal feed.

The dairy cows’ behaviour also changed. They yawned and sucked their lips a lot, moved a little unsteadily on their hooves, stood still for a long time, and had a “somnolent look.”

The peer-reviewed study was done on Holstein cows in Berlin and came out Monday in the journal Nature Food. It is one of the first major studies to look into the possibility of adding industrial hemp to animal feed as a supplement.

At the moment, this is against the law in the United States because THC is not allowed in the food chain. But the new research comes at a time when hemp, which has many uses in industry, is coming back to farms after being banned during the “reefer madness” scare of the 1930s.

Cannabis sativa, which is also known as “hemp,” is a type of plant. It has been grown by people for thousands of years. Its fibres are used to make ropes and for many other things. In the late 1700s, George Washington grew it at Mount Vernon, and the estate has been growing it again in recent years.

THC is a chemical that is found in large amounts in the flowers of the cannabis plant. That’s the chemical compound that gets people high when they smoke it or eat it. High-THC hemp is called “marihuana” by the federal government, which spells it in a strange way, and it is still on Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

Industrial hemp is not the same thing as the marijuana plant that people grow to make their own weed. Under the 2018 Farm Bill, industrial hemp is no longer on the list of controlled substances if it has less than 0.3% THC.

Because of this change in the law, the market for cannabidiol, or CBD, which is also made from hemp, is booming. That is usually sold because it is said to be good for your health. If you go to the right cafe, you can get it in your coffee.

CBD is said to be good for your health, but the Food and Drug Administration hasn’t backed up most of those claims. Only a few products made from hemp have been approved by the FDA, and some companies that make claims about CBD products that aren’t backed up by science have been sent warning letters.

As scientists and government officials figure all this out, the hemp business keeps growing. It’s still a very small part of the market for agricultural goods, but that could change. Erica Stark, the head of the National Hemp Association, said that if the government lets it, hemp could be a great source of food for animals. She said that the seeds of hemp don’t have any THC and are full of protein.

“There will be such a big market for it. Right now, there isn’t enough animal feed in this country because of what’s going on in Ukraine, droughts, and other crop failures,” Stark said.

Researchers at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment found that giving cows the whole hemp plant, which had very low amounts of THC, did not change their behaviour. The effects on behaviour were only seen when the flowers and leaves, which have more THC, were the only parts of the hemp plant that the rats were given.

The report says that some of these effects were a slower heart rate and breathing, “pronounced tongue play, more yawning, salivation, nasal secretion formation,” and reddening of a part of the eyes. Some animals “walked carefully, but were sometimes unsteady, stood for a long time, and had strange postures.”

Robert Pieper, head of the institute’s food chain safety department and co-author of the new paper, says that the animals also ate less and made less milk.

“That has a big effect on the health of animals. “Not a good result,” he said. But he didn’t say what would happen in the world of policy.

Industrial hemp was slowly made legal in the United States through the Farm Bills of 2014 and 2018. This happened at the same time that laws against marijuana use were being loosened in many different ways.
Researchers say that THC was in the milk of cows that were fed hemp.
At the Hemp House Farm in Cheshire, Connecticut, the hemp buds that are picked are used to make medicinal oils and other products. (Photo by Douglas Hook/Getty Images/Hartford Courant)

But this legalisation is limited by rules. The FDA still thinks that THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids in food are dangerous.

“You won’t see CBD-enhanced milk on store shelves for a long time,” said Jeffrey Steiner, who runs the Global Hemp Innovation Center at Oregon State University.

Steiner has tried hemp as a feed supplement for dairy cows, sheep, and chickens. He did not take part in the research that was just published. But his team has only been allowed to study hemp since 2019, and he stressed that a lot more research needs to be done before the plant is likely to get regulatory approval as an animal feed.

During the 1930s, when accusations that Mexican immigrants used marijuana were used as part of racist and jingoistic rhetoric, the plant got a bad name and was tied to racist and jingoistic ideas. Steiner said that a federal tax on marijuana in 1937 pretty much put hemp out of business. During World War II, hemp was once again used to help the war effort. Henry Ford even showed off a car made in part from hemp. However, this was only a temporary reprieve, as the 1970 Controlled Substances Act made it illegal to grow the plant.

Steiner said that during that time, hemp was stuck in the time capsule and couldn’t be used for anything. “Now, it’s a matter of catching up, letting hemp into the market, and making decisions based on science.”

Jamie Jonker, chief science officer at the National Milk Producers Federation, said that the dairy industry will probably want to use hemp as a feed additive if it gets federal approval and can compete with other sources of protein. He said that rising feed and energy costs have been hard on the industry, but that high milk prices have helped ease some of the pressure.

Michael Kleinhenz, an assistant professor in beef production medicine at Kansas State University, said that hemp could also be used to help cows feel less stressed when they are being moved. He has done research on steers that were fed hemp, and he said that the steers became calmer.

Kleinhenz said, “We don’t know if they have that buzz or not.” He said that they do have less stress hormones, though. He thinks that the cannabinoids make people less stressed, but “we still have to figure out how that works in animals.”

Jonker said he has heard that CBD-enhanced dairy products like ice cream are being sold commercially in the Pacific Northwest. But, he said, any new way to sell milk needs to be done carefully.

“Milk has a great reputation for being clean in the minds of most people,” Jonker said. “There’s always a cautious way to go about innovation to make sure that halo doesn’t hurt your reputation.”

Reuters reported on Thursday that the Dutch animal feed company ForFarmers said it planned to use food waste and other raw materials to make new feeds to meet consumer demand for more sustainable farming practises.

The group, which makes feed for ruminants, pigs, and chickens, changed its 2025 strategy because market trends were changing faster than expected. The new strategy was first announced in 2020.

ForFarmers will set up a new organisation, which will include its organic feed division Reudink, to develop and market new feed concepts. This will help the company narrow its focus and address societal concerns about things like climate change and animal welfare, among other things.

“This is where we will start in the Netherlands. Ideas that use different raw materials or include more moist co-products and waste from the food industry are some examples “said in a statement from Farmers.

The group said that the European Union’s plan to decarbonize its economy by 2050, higher raw material and energy costs, farm consolidation and faster herd reduction, and a tightening labour market had all led to an overcapacity in feed production, which was putting pressure on its results.

The Netherlands, which is one of the world’s biggest exporters of agricultural products because it raises cattle and pigs intensively, wants to cut its nitrogen emissions in half by 2030. This has led to protests from farmers who are upset that the plans may force them to use less fertiliser and have fewer animals.

ForFarmers works in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland, and Britain. By 2025, based on underlying operating profit, the company wants to have a consolidated return on average capital employed of at least 10%.

It didn’t give a forecast for this year because markets are changing and there are geopolitical and economic uncertainties.

The hot summer, outbreaks of animal diseases, and rising energy costs, which the group couldn’t fully pass on in the supply chain, caused the group’s core profit for the third quarter to drop by 17%. This news came earlier this month.

The team says that hemp is having a comeback, which is partly due to the interest in CBD. The study, which was published in Nature Food, found that giving cows hemp with a lot of cannabinoids changed their behaviour and made them sick.
Some of them, like the cows, got sleepy and wobbly on their feet. Researchers say that they also ate less and made less milk.

They also found that even small amounts of hemp caused small amounts of THC to be found in the milk.

Michael Kleinhenz, a veterinarian at Kansas State University, said in an interview with New Scientist that the findings are important because there was no way before to know how much cannabinoids were in the milk of dairy cows.

The study, which started more than 10 years ago, was done on ten dairy cows, and the amount of cannabinoids in their milk, blood plasma, and faeces was measured.

Cows were fed both high and low levels of cannabinoids in hemp. Even when cows ate up to 920 grammes of the weak feed, their health didn’t change in any way that could be measured. The cows ate between 850 and 1680 grammes of the more potent hemp, which was made of leaves, flowers, and stems and had about 0.12% THC.

Researchers found that after the animals ate this feed, their behaviour changed in a big way.

“The cows ate less and made less milk after the second day. Both heart rate and breathing rate slowed down. They also had more saliva, played with their tongues, and their nictitating membranes in their eyes turned red,” they wrote.

Soon after the cows started eating the more potent hemp feed, THC and other cannabinoids were found in the milk.

In some cases, the amount of THC found in the milk was higher than what European food safety regulators say is safe to eat. Researchers also said they didn’t know if it was the THC that caused the drop in milk production or if it was something else in cannabis.

The New York Times says that American hemp growers, who are left with tonnes of hemp biomass after cannabinoid compounds like CBD have been taken out, should think about whether or not THC could get into humans through milk.

The study’s lead author, Dr. Robert Pieper, told the Times, “Hemp is a very useful and versatile crop, but we need to be careful about feeding it to animals that produce food.”

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Researchers from Oregon State University did a study earlier this year to find out if feeding hemp biomass to lambs would hurt the animal or the quality of its meat in any way.

Over a four-week period, the 35 male lambs were fed different amounts of hemp biomass. After that, they went through a four-week “withdrawal” period where hemp was taken out of their feed.

They found that the hemp feed was as nutritious as alfalfa and that the extraction process left behind no mycotoxin, terpenes, or organic residues. They also found that the hemp feed had no effect on blood parameters related to liver health, kidney function, immune status, and inflammation. Also, there was no change in the quality of the meat.

During an industry roundtable in August, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials said that more research is needed about hemp-based feed ingredients and how they might affect animal products that are meant to be eaten by humans, according to Feed Stratey.

That old saying, “breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” is correct. Sadly, too many children start their school day on an empty stomach. Whether they miss this important meal simply due to a hectic schedule or because there is not enough to eat at home, skipping breakfast comes at a high price for all students – research shows this habit negatively impacts academic performance.

As school nutrition departments strive to compete with outside food and beverage establishments, coffee and smoothie bars have steadily grown in popularity across the country. Coffee shops have become a regular part of life for today’s teenagers, and you can often find them hanging outside their favorite local shops. So why not keep them on campus to enjoy their favorite beverages? Adding coffee and smoothies to innovative breakfast programs is increasing student participation in breakfast while helping them gain the vital nutrition to fuel student success while also elevating a school’s nutrition program. Plus, bringing this environment inside the school building can help increase school revenue and milk consumption.

“Through our Nutrition NOW program, Dairy MAX is working with school districts to feed more students through innovative breakfast programs designed to increase dairy consumption and access to good nutrition,” says Julie Stefko, M.S., director of school marketing, sales and operations at Dairy MAX.

USDA allows sales of coffee and espresso beverages in high schools up to 12 ounces and under 60 calories as part of the Smart Snacks in School program. Coffee contains essential nutrients, including riboflavin, pantothenic acid, manganese, potassium, magnesium and niacin. So along with being popular, combined with the powerhouse of milk, coffee beverages can be nutritious.

Smoothies are made with yogurt, milk, fruit and, on occasion, other healthful add-ins and offer a variety of health benefits for growing kids. Both items can count for multiple food components and can be incorporated during breakfast, lunch, or supper service as a part of a reimbursable meal.

To expand milk consumption in districts, Dairy MAX has partnered with To Taste, an organization founded by two RDNs/chefs with a focus on K-12 culinary nutrition. Together they developed nine milk-based coffee recipes, which include 8 oz of milk and 16 smoothie recipes containing one or two servings of dairy.

“It’s rewarding to see growing interest across the region for our Dairy MAX branded smoothie and coffee recipes. Our recipes are unique and designed specifically to serve the interest of all our stakeholders including child nutritionists, students and our farmers. Dairy-based smoothies and coffee drinks keep school meals relevant and attract more customers, and in turn, more customers mean higher revenue for child nutrition programs and increased dairy sales for farmers,” said Holly Stojanik, RDN, LD, Dairy MAX school marketing territory manager.

The majority of schools that offer school lunch also offer school breakfast,however, it is often underutilized by students. In fact, the number of students participating in breakfast is just half of those participating in lunch, so there is a significant opportunity to impact the growth of dairy and child nutrition programs while also increasing student access to the nutrition they need to be successful.

“Just water” was what Dawson Holle wanted to drink at his election party.

Holle would have broken the law if he had chosen one of the beers on tap at Mandan’s Seven Seas Bar and Grill. He’s just 18.

When he is sworn in to the North Dakota House of Representatives next month, a dairy farmer who just graduated from high school will be the state’s youngest lawmaker ever.

Legislative staff don’t have official information about the ages of lawmakers, but they think Holle is the youngest.

Holle had to beat a well-known incumbent in the Republican primary and a former tribal chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Holle and Christensen both said that young candidates think about how political and economic decisions will affect their generation in the long run.

Christensen said that young people “have everything to lose,” while older people may not have to deal with the results of making bad decisions and taking on financial burdens.

Christensen hopes that the recent wins for young people running for office will encourage more people in this often-overlooked age group to get involved in politics.

“This should show anyone who thinks they can’t make a difference because they’re young that they’re wrong,” Christensen said.

Holle, who is now a student at the University of Mary in Bismarck, said that his win was “not that big of a deal” and that he just wants to do a good job representing his district, which goes from Mandan to the South Dakota border.

But Mark Jendrysik, a professor of political science at the University of North Dakota, said that Holle’s rise to public office at such a young age is impressive and good for the state.

Jendrysik said, “Given how old our Legislature is, I think it’s good that a younger voice will be there.”

Holle’s victory makes him stand out in history, but he won’t be the only member of Generation Z in Bismarck’s government.

In the North Dakota House of Representatives, there is a movement of young people who are conservative. Five Republican legislators under the age of 25 will serve in the lower chamber next session. One of them, Cole Christensen of Rogers, who was re-elected Tuesday, will be one of them.

Christensen gave Holle advice during his campaign, and he said that voters are becoming more aware that young people have a lot to offer in public service.

Christensen said, “People know that the next generation is the future, so they’re willing to give young people a chance.” “I think the idea that you have to be retired or well-known in your field before you can represent people is becoming less common.”

A “workhorse” campaign by a teen

Last spring, when most seniors at Mandan High School were thinking about prom and graduation, Holle was getting support for his underdog campaign for the legislature.

Holle said that he decided to run for the House after talking with his grandfather in April about how the number of dairy farms in North Dakota was going down.

“I was afraid because I want dairy to stay in North Dakota and do well,” Holle said. “I thought, ‘I want to do something because I don’t want to look back in 20 or 30 years and realise I could have done something.'”

But it’s not easy to get elected from a district where Republican Reps. Karen Rohr and Jim Schmidt are already in the House.

Holle needed about 200 signatures just to get on the ballot for the June primary. Christensen told him to go around the large district and knock on doors to meet the people he wanted to represent.

Just like he said he would, the young candidate went door-to-door in every town in District 31.

Holle said, “I feel like I have a strong message to share with the people in my district, and when I went door-to-door, people really felt that I had their best interests in mind.” “I feel like I’m moving forward.”

Holle said that besides helping dairy farmers and agriculture in general, his most important goals are to protect gun rights, help military veterans, protect the state’s energy industry, and support the interests of Native American tribes. Holle is in charge of the area that includes the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

Former President Donald Trump, U.S. Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer, both R-N.D., and members of his family who have supported North Dakota’s dairy industry are some of his political heroes.

Holle told voters that even though he has conservative beliefs, he keeps an open mind and looks at both sides of complicated issues.

Holle, who will be 19 later this month, said, “I want to listen to people, and I do have a lot to learn.”

When it came time for the primary, Holle had more votes than both Rohr and Schmidt. He and Rohr both beat the former Standing Rock Tribal Chairman, Mike Faith, in the general election.

Christensen said Holle’s unlikely success at the polls was due to his “workhorse” attitude and willingness to listen.

Jendrysik pointed out that young candidates like Holle might be more likely to be able to handle the demands of running for office.

Jendrysik said, “In the end, and especially here, politics is a face-to-face, knock on doors, go to the church picnic, choke down the lutefisk business.” “Young people do have more stamina than old people.”

Jendrysik pointed out that young candidates may not have the same professional credentials as most politicians, but they offer a valuable perspective in an older state like North Dakota that has trouble keeping young people.

Australian Dairy Nutritionals Group (AHF.AX) said on Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not accept its request for faster approval to sell the dairy company’s brand-name infant formula in the country.

Since May, when baby food ran out all over the U.S., dairy companies in Australia and New Zealand have been waiting in line to get the approvals they need.

The FDA’s temporary approval process was only available until November 14, but the dairy company can now apply for registration through the normal process to sell the infant milk formula products, it said.

“We are getting ready to launch our stage 3 toddler milk in the United States next year,” it said.

This month, the New Zealand company a2 Milk Co (ATM.NZ) got permission to send infant milk formula to the United States.

Presented by the Holstein UK Board of Trustees, the Lifetime Achievement Award recognises at least twenty years of dedication and service to the Holstein and/or British Friesian breeds. The award is presented annually to an individual who has made a remarkable contribution to the Society and provided outstanding service to the breed.

With great pleasure, the Trustees present the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award to Richard Beard, who has recently retired from the Society after having worked for them four decades. Richard’s interest in British Friesians was ignited as a school boy, and led him to study at Askham Bryan College to complete a National Certificate in Agriculture. Richard learnt about Canadian Holstein imports while working with the Sharcombe herd which resulting in him emigrating to Canada at the age of 21, he also went on to live and work in the USA.

Whilst abroad, Richard wrote letters to the Holstein World magazine which were later published before the editor invited him to write a regular column. Richard wrote the page for over 10 years before it morphed into A Letter From Great Britain when he relocated back to the UK. Articles for many other publications were to follow and one of Richard’s favourites was Cremona: Where Stradivarius meets Starbuck, about the appearance of Starbuck daughters at the European Holstein Show, which was published in the Farmers Weekly in the mid 80’s.

In 1978, the British Holstein Society Fieldman role became available and he convinced then Chairman, John Lloyd, that his roving days were over. The BHS was a relatively small society at that stage and so he knew and visited almost every imported animal and their new owners. 

After 14 years, Richard left the BHS and travelled to New Zealand where he spent a year working for World Wide Sires. By then, the British Friesian Society in the UK had changed its name to the Holstein Friesian Society and Richard was offered a job as a Classifier, which he went on to do for four years. The two societies merging in 1999 resulted in Richard becoming a Fieldman again, doing grade-ups and finding new members at sales, for the newly formed Holstein UK and Ireland (HUKI). This became the Field Officer role at Holstein UK that Richard continued to do until April this year.

Edward Griffiths, of the Yorkshire Holstein Club who nominated Richard, said “He has devoted his whole working life to working with, researching and promoting Holstein cows worldwide. He is undoubtedly an encyclopaedia of cattle breeding!”

Michael Smale, Chairman of Holstein UK concludes “My sincere congratulations go out to Richard Beard on this fantastic achievement. He has spent many years dedicating his time to the society and contributed greatly to the breed as a whole. He has a passion for the breed, a deep understanding, and an outstanding dedication to it. I look forward to the Holstein UK AGM in July 2023, when the award will be presented.”

The United Nations says that the world’s population reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022. According to World Population Prospects 2022, which was released Tuesday on World Population Day, India is expected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country in 2023.

“This year’s World Population Day falls in a special year because we expect the birth of the eight billionth person to live on Earth. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “This is a time to celebrate our differences, recognise our shared humanity, and be amazed by the advances in health that have made people live longer and cut the death rates of mothers and children by a huge amount.” “At the same time, it’s a reminder of our shared responsibility to take care of our planet and a chance to think about where we’re still not living up to our promises to each other,” he said.

The world’s population is growing at its slowest rate since 1950. In 2020, the growth rate fell below 1%. The United Nations thinks that the world’s population could reach about 8.5 billion people in 2030 and 9.7 billion people in 2050. It is expected that there will be around 10.4 billion people in the world in the 2080s, and that number will stay the same until 2100.

World Population Prospects 2022 also says that many countries’ birth rates have dropped a lot in the last few decades. Two-thirds of the world’s population lives in a country or area with a lifetime fertility rate of less than 2.1 births per woman. This is about the level needed for a population with low death rates to stop growing over time. Between 2022 and 2050, the populations of 61 countries or areas are expected to drop by 1% or more due to low birth rates and, in some cases, high rates of people leaving.

More than half of the growth in the world’s population that is expected by 2050 will happen in just eight countries:

Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Egypt
Ethiopia
India
Nigeria
Pakistan
Philippines
Tanzania is a country in Africa.

More than half of the growth expected by 2050 is expected to come from countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Liu Zhenmin said, “The relationship between population growth and sustainable development is complicated and has many facets.” “Rapid population growth makes it harder to get rid of poverty, fight hunger and malnutrition, and expand health care and education systems. On the other hand, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, especially those related to health, education, and equal rights for women and men, will help lower birth rates and slow the growth of the world’s population.

It is expected that by 2050, 16% of the world’s population will be 65 or older, up from 10% in 2022. At that time, the number of people over 65 will be more than twice as high as the number of children under 5 and about the same as the number of children under 12.

In 2019, the world’s life expectancy at birth was 72.8 years, which is almost 9 years longer than it was in 1990. With further drops in death rates, the world’s average lifespan is expected to reach 77.2 years in 2050. Still, in 2021, the least developed countries had a life expectancy that was 7 years less than the average for the world.

“Because the world’s population is mostly young, more things that governments could do to slow down birth rates wouldn’t make much of a difference between now and the middle of the century. Still, John Wilmoth, Director of the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said that if lower fertility stays the same for several decades, it could slow the growth of the world’s population more significantly in the second half of the century.

The organic dairy market in the U.S. is going through a big change. After growing in the 2000s and 2010s, sales of organic milk in the U.S. have been going down steadily for the past 5 years, by 2.3% in 2022 alone, and prices have gone down by 25% from 2017 to 2022, according to data from the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service. Most of the drop is due to a mismatch in the market between the growing supply of organic milk and the falling demand for all dairy milk in the U.S. But problems for New Hampshire’s small organic dairy farms with 100 or fewer milking cows have been made worse by rising feed costs and the fact that large organic milk processors like Horizon Organic and Maple Hill Creamery are now buying more milk from larger dairy farms in other parts of the United States.

Andre Brito, a scientist at the NH Agricultural Experiment Station and associate professor in the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems department, says that organic dairy farmers in New England can make their farms more sustainable and competitive in the market by coming up with new ways to run their farms.

The organic grass-fed (OGF) sector of the organic dairy market has not only grown, but has grown quickly in the past few years. Traditional organic dairy farms don’t have to follow as many rules as OGF-managed farms do. But Brito says that there are two major benefits to OGF management. One is that it is more resistant to rising costs of feed grain, and the other is that the price of OGF milk is usually higher than the price of regular organic milk.

But until recently, there hadn’t been much research on the organic grass-fed management systems to find the best ways to make more milk. Brito was one of several Northeast scientists who recently worked on a paper about how OGF dairy farmers manage their farms. The paper was published in the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. The study, which was led by researchers at the University of Vermont, gives us a better idea of how this sector works and what it needs.

As part of the research, 167 OGF farmers across the country were asked questions about general farming practises, herd management, and foraging and grazing management. The main findings showed that most OGF dairy farmers are from the plain, or Amish-Mennonite, community, and that farms with more milk production used Holstein cows, had a strict rotation of pastures, and added molasses and kelp meal to the grazing diets of their cows.

“Organic dairy farmers’ profit margins have been going down over time. One way to fix this has been to lower feed costs, switch to 100% forage diets, and make a type of milk that sells for more money.

“The cheapest way to feed cows on a dairy farm is with pasture and forage, since imported grains can be very expensive,” he says. “Organic dairy farmers’ profit margins have been going down over time. One way to fix this has been to lower feed costs, switch to 100% forage diets, and make milk that sells for more money.”

Brito says that most of the responses to the survey came from the Northeast (especially New York) and the Midwest, which suggests that most OGF farms are likely in those areas. The researchers are seeing that more and more organic dairy farms are switching to OGF management as a way to stay competitive in an organic dairy industry that is otherwise not growing.

Brito says, “I’m sure that the organic dairy business in New England has helped and is helping a lot of farmers stay in business.” “Otherwise, these smaller businesses wouldn’t be able to stay in business.”

Brito’s and others’ research on OGF management gives dairy farmers another tool. This helps many small and medium-sized New England dairy farms — some of which have been run by the same families for generations — stay competitive and strong.

In an interview with the Izvestia daily, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said that Russia doesn’t want to stop global food security efforts. This was a sign that a deal allowing Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea could be continued without any problems, according to Reuters.

The deal is set to continue unless there are objections by November 19. Moscow has said that its agreement depends on making sure it can still export its own grain and fertiliser even though Western sanctions are making it hard to do so.

“We are people for whom the human side of the issue is not just a word,” Sergei Vershinin was quoted as saying in an interview that came out early on Wednesday and was published by Izvestia.

Both Ukraine and Russia send a lot of grain around the world. Russia is the biggest exporter of wheat in the world and a major supplier of crop and soil nutrients to markets around the world.

If what the West says about letting Russia’s food exports out of sanctions is true, “everything would go on as usual” with the Black Sea grain deal, he said.

When asked if Russia would back Turkey’s recent plan to take a time limit out of the deal, he said that the current 120-day time limit seems “justified.”

Vershinin also said that the state bank Rosselkhozbank, which has been a big part of Russia’s demands in this area, was ready to provide guarantees for dealing with food and fertiliser transactions if its access to the international SWIFT bank payments system was restored, Izvestia reported.