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BY SHERRI ACKERMANThe Tampa TribuneTAMPA It’s the latest public education controversy to sweep the nation, and it has nothing to do with high-stakes testing or graduation rates.This debate is about chocolate milk, and it’s coming soon to a cafeteria near you.This summer, the Los Angeles Public School District banned chocolate milk from its lunchrooms. It joined a growing list of states, including Florida, that link the sugary beverage to childhood obesity.One school nutrition manager in Coloradodubbed chocolate milk “soda in drag.”

Program represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make major improvements, says National Milk Producers Federation.

Food prices are expected to rise as the corn surplus shrinks due to a hot summer, which likely scorched this year’s corn crop.

Acercarles el alimento al comedero ofrece beneficios inesperados

More frequent meals means there is less feed slugging into the rumen, less chance of acidosis and a more stable rumen environment.

Committee members hear concerns that current dairy programs don’t provide a meaningful farm-level safety net.

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 17 requests for export assistance from Darigold, Dairy Farmers of America, Foremost Farms and United Dairymen of Arizona.

This innovative program uses a team approach to improve dairy herd reproduction.

Feed the best forages you can find to your best cows.

U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced that dairy farmers who were forced to dump milk, due to power outages and washed out roads and bridges preventing transportation, will receive payments at the market value for the milk that they had to dump.