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New web resource maps USDA support for local and regional food projects, highlights business opportunities for farmers, ranchers and growers.

Cattle group says the legislation will prevent the government from picking minnow protection over agricultural production.

Effective July 1, herds larger than the trigger levels will be required to have 180 days of manure storage, up from the current 120-day limit.

Net sales up 15% in 2011; net earnings up 2%.

“What will surprise most people is that the bill...will actually increase the rate at which small farms are going out of business,” says IDFA official.

Western United Dairymen wants the department to amend the state’s Class 4b formula to “accurately capture whey value.”

JACKI LYDEN: If you’re just joining us, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I’m Jacki Lyden.For the past 50 years, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center off the coast of New York was a research base for some of the world’s most lethal bacteria and viruses. The Department of Homeland Security took it over after 9/11. But the facility has deteriorated over the years, and they’ve chosen Kansas as a place to build a more modern lab. However, the new location has drawn the ire of nearby live stock ranchers and costs for the facility have skyrocketed. Laura Ziegler of Harvest Public Media visited the site, and she has this story.LAURA ZIEGLER: The National Bio and Agro Defense Facility or NBAF even sounds kind of scary, doesn’t it? And the Plum Island Animal Disease Center itself has a creepy Cold War image. Former wrestling star come Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura even did a YouTube expose.

Cooperatives Working Together has accepted 24 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Foremost Farms, Land O’Lakes, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative, Michigan Milk Producers Association and United Dairymen of Arizona.

The Kumamoto Dairy Cooperative Association, a grouping of dairy farmers in Kumamoto Prefecture, is intensifying its efforts to boost milk exports to other Asian countries. At present, milk produced in Hokkaido dominates Japan’s milk export business because of its brand cachet. But milk producers in Kumamoto are striving to blaze a new trail overseas amid the trend toward globalization such as Japan’s possible signing up for the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal.

Consumers are going nuts for almond milk, as it became the fastest growing non-dairy milk alternative in 2011 at the expense of soy milk. According to the latest figures from Packaged Facts, sales of almond milk increased 79 percent in the US last year, while sales of soy milk -- though still the most popular non-dairy milk alternative -- fell 15 percent between 2008 and 2010, reported online trade publication FoodNavigator.com last week.