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The state needs 60,000 more dairy cows to supply Leprino’s new cheese plant.

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted 10 requests for export assistance to sell 1,637 metric tons (3.609 million pounds) to North Africa, the Middle East, Central America, and Asia.

Cheese provides only 5 percent of the calories in the U.S. diet, yet 21 percent of the calcium.

A bill to be introduced Feb. 21 in both houses of the Texas Legislature would allow raw milk producers to make home deliveries of their product and sell it at farmers’ markets.

2010 overseas dairy shipments up 40% from 2009.

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.

A total of $18,000 was awarded today to the winners of the 2011 World Ag Expo Forage Challenge, presented by Mycogen Seeds.

The World Ag Expo, in Tulare, Calif., uses social media to connect with attendees.