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“The Holy Grail” of the agricultural calendar each month is the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Report.

Dairy producers sent 265,000 cows to slaughter in Federally inspected plants in December, 34,000 more (15%) than in December 2009

Year-over-year milk production increases slowly adjusting supply to demand, holding the all-milk price near 2010 level.

Rain that caused billions of dollars of destruction in Australia could propel wheat output in the fourth-largest exporter to a record next harvest and boost irrigated crops after floods swept parched land.

JerseyBid.com, a new real-time online auction service, will be highlighted at the winter US Jersey seminar in Columbus, Ohio.

Mozzarella production accounted for the largest share.

Each year, U.S. federal inspectors find illegal levels of antibiotics in hundreds of older dairy cows bound for the slaughterhouse. Concerned that those antibiotics might also be contaminating milk, the Food and Drug Administration intended to begin tests this month on the milk from farms that had repeatedly sold cows tainted by drug residue. But the testing plan has met with fierce protest from the dairy industry,