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Fifty-seven counties produce 50% of all Federal Order and California milk, down from 62 counties just five years ago.

Alfalfa export volumes surged 14% last year. But rising cow numbers and reduced alfalfa acres also played a role in rising hay prices.

Grazing can be a viable system for new dairy operations.

Cornell University’s David Galton receives top award. Several others honored.

With European partner, the New Zealand company will establish a new cheese plant and a dairy ingredients factory in the Netherlands to supply its European and Asian customers.

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 14 requests for export assistance from Darigold, Foremost Farms, Land O’Lakes, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative and United Dairymen of Arizona.

At the Litchfield academy, Lloyd Metzger, a dairy food scientist at South Dakota State, explains what’s required to produce and sell high quality milk.

Dairy’s baseline is $432 million over the next 10 years. That sounds like a big number. But not when it comes to government expenditures.

Petitions contend the state’s producers are losing millions of dollars due to an undervalued whey factor in California’s milk pricing system. One cheesemaker calls the petitions’ demands “obscene.”

The dairy portion of the bill eliminates milk price supports and the Milk Income Loss Contract program.