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Dairy producers sent 9,000 fewer cows to federally inspected slaughter plants in November compared to a year ago, a 4% decline, according to USDA’s Livestock Slaughter Report released this morning.

In 2003, as burdensome European regulations and limited expansion opportunities were squeezing the viability out of his small dairy in northern Ireland, Rodney Elliott read in his local newspaper of an agricultural investment tour of South Dakota.

Dairies are closing partly because of changing consumer tastes and trade tensions, but mainly because the industry is continuing a century-long consolidation.

Their complaint: Retail prices are the highest in the nation, yet smaller California dairymen canX_SQ_Xt make a profit

A family-run Pennsylvania dairy farm is sharing its operation with the world, thanks to its Cow Cam located in the barn.

Producers from Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin will benefit from informational conference.