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Just 8,100 fewer dairy cows sent to slaughter in 2010.

A Washington dairy producer explains the options that allow him to put the best feed where it will have the greatest return.

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted five requests for export assistance from Bongards Creamery, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, and Foremost Farms

The National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) is moving forward with a National Milk Producer Federation proposal

Third-party verification of animal welfare, other on-farm practices to begin this summer.

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