Nationally known veterinarian will be allowed to testify for the Utah dairy farmers.

U.S. farms pumped out 196.2 billion pounds of milk last year, a record, up from 192.8 in 2010. Cow numbers were also up 80,000 head (0.9%) over a year ago.

World’s largest dairy exporter attributes large shipments to continued growth in global demand for dairy products and record milk production in New Zealand.

WESLACO - When a swarm of Africanized honeybees infiltrated the U.S.-Mexico border in 1990, it was detected, destroyed and studied by U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists at the Kika de la Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center.When Hurricane Alice and a subsequent tropical depression sent floodwaters coursing down the Rio Grande in the historic flood of 2010, it was planes operated by the center that allowed officials to track the river’s swelling.

Cooperative is North America’s largest A.I. organization.

Over the next decade, the company says, the potential to grow dairy globally is more than double that of the next two food categories—bakery and chilled processed foods—combined.