The major food and beverage company expects dairy prices to climb through first half of 2011 before flattening out or declining in third and fourth quarters.

8,000-cow manure processing center in Wisconsin has it all.

In Britain, surging grocery prices are painful, but not life-threatening. For much of the rest of the world, by contrast, food prices are a matter of life and death.

The January report also revealed that Idaho moved up to the Number 3 milk producing state in 2010, out producing New York by 66 million pounds of milk.

Consumers reported a slight preference for the nutritionally enhanced (California) milk over the federal standard milk overall (44% vs. 42%)

Modest herd expansion, robust exports also expected.