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Hungarian dairy farmers have marched with some 50 cows near parliament asking the government to lower taxes on all dairy products while claiming that support from Hungary and the European Union is insufficient and ineffective.
On the edge of Belarus’ Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning “Stop! Radiation,” a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk. Associated Press reporters politely decline the drink but pass on a bottled sample to a laboratory, which confirms it contains levels of a radioactive isotope at levels 10 times higher than the nation’s food safety limits.
Louisiana lawmakers have killed an attempt to lift the state’s ban on sales of unpasteurized — or “raw” — milk for the third year in a row.
A set of triplet heifers is doing well after being delivered at a dairy farm in western Michigan.
The average milk price paid to farmers rose to $19.60 per 100 pounds of milk last year, up from $17.98 in 2012 and a low of $12.16 in 2009,
New York’s milk production rose in 2013 for the fourth consecutive year.
Backers of a proposed dairy farm on the island of Kauai in Hawaii said they hope to be producing milk for customers next year.
Wisconsin companies that export dairy products to China must register with the Food and Drug Administration as part of a process aimed at improving food safety in China.
Five Oregon dairies have been given permission to expand, adding a total of about 4,500 animals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to end its dairy sheep research program and get rid of hundreds of ewes in northwestern Wisconsin.
A PepsiCo spokesman says the company and its German partner are ending production at a western New York yogurt plant opened with much fanfare and state money in 2013.
The Swiss dairy giant Emmi has purchased Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery, in Sebastopol, Calif.
Robotic dairy systems offer reduced labor, happy cows.
Neal and Karen Klaphake, feed their cows grass during the entire growing season and produce milk for an organic dairy.
Hickory Hill Milk dairy farm in Edgefield County, S.C. produces non-homogenized whole milk, chocolate milk and buttermilk. Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/living/food-drink/article36919302.html#storylink=cpy