Links and More Links....  General Topic Headings: Industry Federal Govt:  Environmental Issues and Regulations State Govt:  New Mexico State Legislature and Representatives Associations / Boards / Councils Dairy Products Breeders Consultants Dairy-related Services Cooperatives International Dairy Information Cropping Feed Publications Farm Safety Miscellaneous:  Clip Art, Graphics, Fun Stuff For Kids of All Ages

Industry:

• AgricultureB2B
  A comprehensive listing of all things agriculture in the North America and worldwide.
• BSE Information
• California Dairy Research Foundation
  Not-for-profit research corporation created in 1988 for the purpose of promoting research and development that benefit California's dairy producers and in the consumer marketplace.
• Cornell Program on Dairy Markets & Policy
  Contains dairy forecasts, issue papers, and other data.
• Dairy.com
  is the industry's leading commodities exchange and Internet-based service provider focused on serving the dairy industry from producer to manufacturer. Representing over 80% of annual U.S. dairy sales, our member companies include such industry leaders as Dairy Farmers of America, The Dannon Company, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Kraft Foods, Land O'Lakes, Leprino Foods, Schreiber Foods, Dean Foods, and many others. Our mission is to provide comprehensive Internet-based tools and services that deliver better profitability, flexibility, and efficiency to all dairy industry participants - agricultural and manufacturing suppliers; producers; cooperatives; and milk, ice cream, yogurt, and cheese manufacturers.
• Dairy Farmers of America
• Dairy Farming Today
• Dairyforums.com
  Virtual gathering place and information storehouse where producers, professionals and industry suppliers can share experiences, ideas, and inspiration.
• Dairy Line
  America's only dairy news network, with over 90 radio stations, 11 weekly newspapers and daily updates.
• Dairy Man
  The one-stop dairyman's resource guide.
• Dairy Management, Inc.
  Planning and management organization responsible for increasing demand for dairy products on behalf of America's dairy farmers.
• Dairy Market News
  This is the weekly newsletter published by the USDA. It presents a wealth of information on milk, milk products, and prices, which is updated each Friday afternoon.
• DairyMax
  Stories of dairy promotion efforts, nutrition information, and links.
• Dairy Network
  Technology and product updates for processing professionals in the dairy industry. Information on manufacturing, technology, equipment, and supplies and discussion forum, online chat, newsletter and software.
• Dairy Policy Issues
  Congressional Research Service Brief for Congress
• Dairy Rules
  Meeting the legal and regulatory challenges of today's progressive dairy producers.
• eDairy, Inc.
  The dairy industry's best source for market news, information, research and analysis.
• I Love Cheese
  Site of the American Dairy Association that contains health and nutrition information and recipes for cheese.
• Leprino Foods
  World leader in premium-quality cheese manufacturing and the largest U.S. exporter of whey products
• Lone Star Milk Producers
  Lone Star dairy co-op currently has members in Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Tennessee.
• Milk and Dairy Beef Quality Assurance
  Provides programs designed to improve the quality of milk and dairy beef.
• Milk is Milk - The Simple Truth
  The Center for Global Food Issues (CGFI) website fighting false and misleading marketing practices in the dairy industry
• MooMilk
  Promoting dairy though education and interaction that's fun.
• National Dairy Shrine
  Brings together dairy producers, scientists, students, educators, marketers and others who share a desire to preserve the dairy heritage and keep the dairy industry strong.
• National Milk Producers Federation
• New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association
• New Mexico Dairy Extension Program
  New Mexico State University Dairy Extension Team's "official dairy webpage for New Mexico"
• Select Milk Producers
  New Mexico and Texas Dairy Cooperative
• Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center
  One of six national dairy centers, utilizing the expertise available at NCSU and MSU. Research in biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, and processing of milk.
• Southwest Cheese Company, LLC
• Southwest Dairy Farmers
  An alliance of dairy farmers from Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
• US Dairy Forage Research Center
  Part of USDA's Agricultural Research Service with a research laboratory on the campus the University of Wisconsin and a dairy research farm at Prairie du Sac.
• Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board
  an interactive system developed by and for Wisconsin dairy producers.
• Zia Milk Producers
  Southeast Dairy Cooperative

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Federal Environmental Issues and Regulations

• Ben Yale's website regarding legislation, legal and regulatory issues


• Livestock and Poultry Environmental Stewardship Program
  developed by EPA, USDA, and land-grant university staff to assist producers with all aspects of permit compliance.

• EPA Ag Assistance Publications
• EPA Construction General permit
• CAFO Self Audit Checklist
• EPA Region 6
• EPA Agricultural Assistance Center
• EPA NPDES/CAFO information
• USDA/EPA Unified National Strategy on Animal Feeding Operations
• Animal Feeding Operations' Voluntary Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans
• Effluent Guidelines for CAFO's
• Major Environmental Laws
• New Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) Rule
CAFO highlights:
Production
Best Management Practices
Education & Training
Laws
Research
Compliance & Enforcement
Related Publications
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United States Department of Agriculture
Dairy Quality Standards
Dairy information
Dairy Key Contacts
Dairy Market News
Dairy Research and Promotion
AMS at USDA - Dairy promotions and research

House Committee on Agriculture webpage and information:

Subscribe to news releases from the House Committee on Agriculture. The news releases you will be seeing are the same as they are received by reporters who cover the House Agriculture Committee.

Agriculture results in the 2002 Census

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New Mexico State Government:

• Governor's Office
• State Legislature
• City Governments
• County Governments
• New Mexico Department of Agriculture
• State of New Mexico Homepage
• New Mexico State University

New Mexico Congressional Reps:
Find out who represents YOU, and contact them via email.

• Heather Wilson) (US Rep)
• Steven Pearce (US Rep)
• Tom Udall (US Rep)

New Mexico-Specific Environmental Rules and Regulations:

• NMED Ground Water Quality Bureau
• NMED Surface Water Quality Bureau
• NMED Home Page
• Natural Resources Conservation Service - Farm Bill and EQIP information
• NRCS New Mexico
• New Mexico County Extension Offices

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Consultants

Glorieta Geoscience, Inc.
Jay Lazarus
PO Box 5727
Santa Fe, NM  87505
voice (505) 983-5446 and fax (505) 983-6482
email:  lazarus@glorietageo.com or ggi@glorietageo.com 

Ag2Energy
Kyle Hoodenpyle
2602 Marlboro
Lubbock, TX 79415
505-231-3159
www.ag2energy.com
email: agr2energy@hotmail.com

Ashcraft Consulting, Inc.
Loney Ashcraft
Office: (505) 347-2600
Cell: (505) 626-4509

Barron's Engineering Solutions - In Time!
Mary Barron
11 Cajun Court
Roswell, NM  88201
Voice:  (505) 622-7224
email:  best9@cableone.net

EnviroCompliance Services, Inc.
Chet Wyant
212 Tucker Avenue
Clovis, NM  88101
Voice:  (505) 762-9674

Gallagher & Kennedy
Anthony J. Trujillo
1233 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Voice: (505) 982-9523
Fax: (505) 983-8160
www.gknet.com
email:  gk@gknet.com

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Associations/Boards/Councils

• 2424milk
  Online educational resource designed and maintained to keep teens and moms engaged and educated about nature's power drink.
• American Association of Bovine Practitioners
  An international association of veterinarians organized to enhance the professional lives of its members through relevant continuing education.
• American Butter Institute
  Represents the marketing and regulatory interests of the nation's butter manufacturers, with its 32 member companies marketing approximately 90% of all the butter manufactured in the United States.
• American Cheese Society
  Non-profit organization to promote farmstead and specialty cheeses in North & Latin America. The site provides general information and sources for US and imported cheese.
• American Dairy Goat Association
  Organized in 1904 to collect, record and preserve the pedigrees of dairy goats and to provide genetic management and related services to dairy goat breeders.
• American Dairy Science Association
  International organization of educators, scientists, and industrialists who are committed to advancing the dairy industry.
• California Cheese and Butter Association
  Non-profit organization for any person, company or organization engaged in the manufacture, sale, promotion or distribution of cheese and butter in the state of California.
• California Dairy Herd Improvement Association
  Provides quality assurance, production statistics, communications, and program direction for a federation of local dairy herd improvement association located in the western states.
• Dairy Council of California
  Health and nutrition information provided to health professionals, educators and California consumers.
• Dairy Council of Florida
• Dairy Farmers of Ontario
  Marketing group for the largest sector on Ontario agriculture and is owned and operated by the farm families of Ontario, Canada's 7,000 dairy farmers.
• International Dairy Foods Association
  Washington, D.C. based association for processors, manufacturers, marketers, distributors and suppliers of dairy foods, including milk, cheese, ice cream and frozen desserts.
• Milk News Room
  Official newsroom for the got milk? & milk mustache campaign and the Milk Processor Education Program.
• National Cattlemen's Beef Association
• National Dairy Council
  Founded in 1915 and provides nutrition information through national, state and regional dairy council units.
• National Dairy Herd Improvement Association, Inc.
  Maintains a national dairy records program.
• National Ice Cream & Yogurt Retailers Association
  Organization of ice cream parlor operators.
• National Mastitis Council
  Non-profit organization devoted to reducing mastitis and enhancing milk quality.
• National Milk Producers Federation
  Farm commodity organization representing most of the dairy marketing cooperatives in the United States.
• New Mexico Cattle Growers Association
• New Mexico Hay Growers Association
• New Mexico Livestock Board
  Official website for New Mexico Livestock Board.
• Oregon Dairy Council
  Nutrition education that provides Oregonians with scientifically accurate information to encourage healthy food choices for life.
• Real California Cheese
  Site of the California Milk Advisory Board.
• United States Dairy Export Council
  Membership organization that represents the interests of U.S. milk producers, cooperative dairy companies, dairy processors, export marketing and trading companies, and suppliers to the dairy industry.
• Washington State Dairy Council
  Private non-profit nutrition agency that provides health professionals, educators, the media and the public with nutrition education resources, health and fitness information, an online catalog and more.

Dairy Products

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Breeders

• American Guernsey Association
  registration and services for business of Guernsey dairy cattle.
• American Jersey Cattle Association
  Dedicated to the improvement and marketing of Jersey cattle.
• Brown Swiss Cattle Breeder's Association
  Provides history of the breed, and production and genetics information.
• Holstein Association, USA
  Non-profit membership organization of 43,000 people with strong interests in breeding, raising and milking Holstein cattle.
• Red and White Dairy Cattle Association
  Incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1964 to encourage and promote the breeding and development of a new breed of dairy cattle referred to as Red & White.

Holstein Breeders:

Best Sunrise Dairy Houston, MO Canyon Breeze Holsteins Cattle Exchange Covista Holsteins Ontario, Canada Carrousel Farms Orangeville, IL Cook Farm - Hadley, Mass Cooks Valley Farm Bloomer, WI Country Dairy New Era, WI Coyne Farms - Avon, NY Crescentmead Farm WI Del-Hollow Farm - Coudersport, PA Golden Oaks Farms - IL Green Meadow Farms - Elsie, MI Hillside Farms, Inc - Shavertown, PA Indies-View-GW Holsteins Kings Ransom Farms - Schuylerville, NY Maple Lawn Farms - MD Merry Air Holsteins

Moo Juice Holsteins - Canisteo, NY Milkworth Holsteins - Middlesex, NY Mohrfield Holsteins - OH Morningview Holsteins - Durango, IA Nabholz Farm - IA Neu-Way Holsteins - Hoyleton, IL North Florida Holsteins - FL North Rush Holsteins - PA Owenlea Holsteins - Homerville, OH Pinehurst Farms - Sheboygan Falls, WI Regancrest Farm - IA Solid Gold Holsteins - PA Stouder Holsteins Tri-Day Holsteins - PA UNECO - Home of Fatal Welcome Stock Farm - Schuylerville, NY Willows Edge Holsteins - New Richmond, WI Whittier Farms - W. Sutton, MA

Colored Breeds:

New Generation Genetics - Brown Swiss Nabholz Farm - Jerseys

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Selected Farm Safety Links from www.fs4jk.org:

• Buckle Up or Eat Glass
  Farm Safety 4 Just Kids rural roadway program. It is a youth organized program to increase seatbelt use on rural roads.
• RFD Television
• Iowa's Center for Agricultural Safety and Health
• Children's Health Environmental Coalition
  Making your home and community safer for children
• Farm Medic
• Safety World
  Producing leading safety awareness products for over 20 years.

Farm Safety Related Web-sites

• Agriscape
  Provides a search engine for agricultural professionals and others who wish to research various products, services, information, and other topics of agriculture existing on the web.
• Great Plains Center for Ag Safety and Health
• Illinois Agriculture
  The kid's ag page
• Lorenzo's Links
• Make a Farm
• National Safety Council
  Child Safety on the Farm
• Organic Valley
  Visit the Hey Kids Section for a farm tour and a kids farm journal.
• Quia
  Farm Safety Sleuths
• Saskatchewan Labour
  Farm Safety Links

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Ag Safety and Children

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  Resources, news, and other links to sites for parents, health professionals, and others interested in child and adolescent development.
• Canada Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
  Info and more on safe and healthy working environments
• Center for Rural Emergency Medicine (CREM)
  Info on the delivery of emergency and trauma care in rural areas.
• Cooperative Extension Service
  Land grant universities across the U.S.
• Children's Safety Network (CSN)
  Links to other injury prevention sites.
• National Ag Safety Database-University of Florida
  Extension compedium of safety and health resources including videos, directories, publications, and abstracts.
• National Center for Farmworker Health
  Info resources and special projects with migrant and seasonal workers.
• National SAFE KIDS Campaign
  Includes safety information for kids.
• National Safety Council
  Includes an ag division.
• North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT)
  NAGCAT offers parents, employers, and educators a unique resource to assigning jobs to children ages 7-16.
• United States Department of Agriculture
  Includes reports, data, program information, and links to other related sites.
• Injury Control Resource Information Network
  Injury prevention information, database searches, updates and links to nationwide and international sites.
• NECAS
  NECAS stands for the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety. It is located in Peosta, Iowa. For more information visit their website!

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Dairy-related Services and Companies

AgTech Inc. Embryo Transfer Training Agricultural Marketing Service - USDA Agricultural Marketing Service includes six commodity programs--Cotton, Dairy, Fruit and Vegetable, Livestock and Seed, Poultry, and Tobacco Citizens State Bank of Loyal Creamland Dairy Dairy Practices Council Dean Foods Co. - Manufacturer of dairy and other specialty food products. Denise Rich aka 'The Rich Artist' eDairy, Inc. - The dairy industry's best source for market news, information, research and analysis. eHay weekly- Past issues EliteCows.com Financial Consulting Five-G Consulting - Dairy design firm The Hay Barn Hay for sale in New Mexico Internet Hay Exhange

Kraft Foods, Inc. - The largest packaged food company in the United States and Canada. Nearly on in every 10 cows in the United States supplies Kraft with the company's dairy products, including Kraft Cheese. Land-O-Lakes Financing Leprino Foods - the world's largest producer of premium-quality mozzarella cheese and pizza cheese blends made for pizzeria and manufacturers. Lester Building Systems New Mexico Hay Growers Association - Includes links to an online marketplace: Hay for Sale Hay Wanted Quality Chekd Rafael Carrillo - Alfalfa production in Socorro area Roswell New Mexico Schwan's Sales Enterprises, Inc. - Manufacturer of ice cream and other food products.

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Cooperatives

• Agri-Mark - Vital milk marketing cooperative owned and controlled by dairy farmers from the Northeast.
• Associated Milk Producers, Inc.
  AMPI is a midwest dairy cooperative with 5,000 dairy producer members offering a complete line of dairy products.
• Cass-Clay Cooperative Creamery
  Founded in 1935, the cooperative now employees over 300 people and has a milk producers' payroll totaling upwards of $56 million.
• Dairy Farmers of America
  Cooperative with 22,000 members throughout the United States. Produces milk, cheese and other dairy products.
• Dairylea Cooperative Inc.
  A multi-faceted, agricultural service organization cooperatively owned by roughly 2,800 Northeast dairy farmers.
• First District Association
  An independent dairy cooperative that maximized returns for its producers, customers and employees.
• Foremost Farms USA
  Dairy cooperative owned by 6,000 farmer members in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
• Land O'Lakes
  National food and agricultural cooperative employing more than 6,000 people in 200 plants and offices.
• Lone Star Milk Producers
  Lone Star dairy co-op currently has members in Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Tennessee.
• Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association
  Regional milk marketing and processing cooperative serving over 1,600 dairy farmers throughout 10 states.
• Michigan Milk Producers Association
  Member-owned and operated dairy cooperative serving over 2,900 dairy farmers in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin.
• Select Milk Producers, Inc.
  Cooperative of dairy producers in New Mexico, West Texas and Central Texas.
• Zia Milk Producers, Inc.
  Southeast Dairy Cooperative.

International Dairy Information

• Australian Dairy Industry Council
  The Australian dairy industry is the country's largest processed food industry.
• Irish Dairy Board
  Central export marketing arm of the Irish dairy industry.
• Japanese Dairy Cattle Improvement Program
• National Dairy Council (England)
  Offers information on health and nutrition of milk from the UK's National Dairy Council.
• United Dairy Farmers (England)
  Mission to purchase, transplant and markets its members' milk supplies in an efficient and cost effective manner.

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Cropping

• Alfalfa Council
• Corn Growers Assoc.
• US Soyfooods Directory
• Pioneer Hi-Bred International

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• Online Ingredients Buying
• Bio-Vet Microbials
• Land O Lakes Feed
• Performance Products
• SoyPLUS

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Publications

• Dairy Herd Management
  Site is full of useful information to help dairy producers excel in the business of dairying.
• Dairy Publications
  Contains technical publications of the Department of Animal Science at Oklahoma State University.
• Hoard's Dairyman Online
  National dairy farm magazine.
  

Miscellaneous

Very funny pages by people (with too much time on their hands?), and who happen to love COWS too! Buy cow stuff, and enjoy cow culture.

• MooCow.com
• Cow Politics
  Definitions of governments based on cows
• Holy Cow Barn
  Cow decorations galore! (by creator of Ben & Jerry's cow)

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