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After a judge’s reprimand of a vegan activist group, a Western dairy leader urges dairy families to continue standing up to animal rights “terrorists.”

Pete Kennedy supports what he calls a growing “back-to-local food” movement in America, and considers drinking raw milk one of the biggest parts of it, he said on Friday.

Colorado State University, Oregon State University, Western University of Health Sciences, Washington State University and University of California at Davis are involved in the project.

CWT has accepted 35 requests for export assistance from Bongards, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Foremost Farms, Land O’Lakes, Upstate-Niagara subsidiary O-AT-KA and United Dairymen of Arizona.

Producers must be nominated by professionals who serve the dairy industry, such as veterinarians, nutritionists, genetic and pharmaceutical company representatives, DHIA field personnel or extension specialists.

November 2011 budgets show that tiestall barns producing 20,000 lb. of milk per cow were losing $1.81/cwt. when all costs were included.

Doug and his family built a 1957 14-cow herd into RuAnn Dairy, Maddox Dairy, and Golden Genes, all world-recognized Holstein entities.

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