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Culling is up 6.4% through the first six months of 2011.

Beef cows were down 1 percent and replacement heifers down 5 percent. Meanwhile milk cows and replacement heifers numbers increased.

USDA forecasts dairy cow numbers to fall slightly in 2012, but milk production is expected to continue to climb.

The biggest concerns were over perceived unfairness of the margin protection insurance portion of the plan and market stabilization.

The New Zealand co-op, reportedly the largest milk processor in the world, has appointed Theo Spierings as its new CEO.

Most death losses were black coated cattle in open feedlots.

Cool, damp spring weather followed by the recent heat means that grasses are at increased likelihood of becoming infected with ergot bodies.

Grain futures prices traded on the Dalian and Zhengzhou commodity exchanges are expected to maintain at high levels though China has achieved an increase in summer grain output for the eighth year running this year, analysts say.

Dairymen are calling Netanyahu’s decision cruel and idiotic, and said that it will destroy dairy farming in Israel.

Dr. Sun led the development of hybrid alfalfa