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FSA Administrator Garcia: “We know these disasters have caused serious economic hardships for our livestock producers. We’ll do all we can to assist in their recovery.”

The High Plains Dairy Conference held recently in Lubbock, Texas, served as a one-stop update for many things important to the dairy industry, including the value of maintaining good employees.

“No one country has any right to own common food names for their exclusive use.” -- NMPF’s Jim Mulhern

As part of trade talks, the EU wants to ban the use of names like Parmesan, feta and Gorgonzola on cheese made in the U.S.

The charges against the New Zealand dairy giant stemmed from last year’s botulism scare.

When it comes to managing rations for dairy cows, it is always better to be proactively making decisions versus reactively.

U.S. dairy companies have committed hundreds of millions of dollars to new plants, products, offices overseas and additional staff.

“This is the first market I’ve worked in where food safety is a more important consideration than price.” -- Rob Chester, chief compliance officer at Wal-Mart in China.

Despite a decline in dairy farms in Vermont, agriculture officials say milk production is constant and farmers are getting record-high prices for their milk.

The higher prices come after paying farmers increases of almost 15% for milk deliveries in the past two months.