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Queen-Acres Barber Booper moved into first place with lifetime totals on December 31, 2010 of 306,145 lbs. milk, 14,664 lbs. fat and 10,520 lbs. protein.

Cow numbers are also up an estimated 76,000 (0.8%) over a year ago and 17,000 head over February.

Negotiating is a skill producers must learn for consistent business success.

• Fever tick inspections move to Texas By Julian AguilarThe Texas TribuneLAREDO - An unexpected casualty of the drug-cartelfueled lawlessness in Mexico: the cattle industry.At a temporary inspection site in the industrial sector of Laredo, home to the country’s largest inland port, the lowing of cows has been heard not far from the purring of the tractortrailers that haul millions of dollars worth of goods from Mexico each day.

U.S. dairy producers sent 268,000 dairy cows to slaughter through Federally inspected plants in March

Steve Schlangen, a dairy farmer from Albany, Minn., is stepping up to lead the 3,000-member Associated Milk Producers Inc.

Forraje de alta calidad permite menos maíz en la dieta.

Radiation contamination concerns led to this week’s ban on food imports from the area near Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant.

In February, 249,000 dairy cows were sent through Federally inspected slaughter plants, 12% more than a year ago.